Tricia Balle wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> We're putting together a petition from as many people as we can on our
> rural exchange to request that Telecom enable it for ADSL. The
> exchange has had fibre optic to it for a long time and it is apparently
> a very simple matter to enable Jetstream if Telecom so chooses. Once I
> have gathered enough names to make this worthwhile, I want to send the
> letter to as many people as possible. Does anybody on this list have
> any names of people in Telecom to whom such a letter should go? There
> is such pent-up demand here - many people don't even have decent dial up
> due to the "electric fence" issue - and many have been bugging Telecom
> for a couple of years, so this is just another attempt to push them.
>
>

Tricia,

There was an interesting doco/article on TV a while back talking about
the 'electric fence' issue.
Truth is that if you have problems with Electric Fence interference then
its entirely possible that Jetstream will be interfered with also.
Before you can have reliable broadband on the line, a decent quality
phone line is a must. Perhaps your petition should be to get your lines
looked at first/at the same time?

Electric Fence Noise is usually caused by poor grounding, etc, as I
remember - things touching the fence, poor insulators, etc. Theres work
there that would definately need to be done and would improve your
chances for a decent broadband signal too.

Just a thought.

Mark.

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