Poor service in a rural area

I live about 2 miles out side the largest town in Cornwall in a little place called Coombe. It shouldn't feel like the end of the world but as far as any sort of service from BT it does.
3 years ago I got in contact with BT to connect me up a phone line and get me onto broadband. No problem they said and if I was willing to sign up for the 18 months they would cut me a deal. I was only interested in the broadband but you can't have one without the other.
The order was messed up a couple of times as the house is divided into two flats and one of the flats allready had a line installed, but I didn't use that flat and I wanted my own line. Anyway after a couple of canceled orders and very very plain instructions and engineer was sent out to install my new line and broadband.
Now the real trouble started.
1) The new line was screwed into my neighbours house, which is a completely different colour to mine
2) The broadband didn't work. The engineer pointed out that to save money BT had installed a wireless connection from the main exchange at Grampound rd and that would never be able to contain enough bandwidth for broadband.
I was peeved as I only wanted broadband in the first place and I was now locked into a 18 month contract for a landline. I tried everything I could and spent 6 months and 3 hubs trying to get the connection working. There is no sharing of information between openreach and BT sales. BT sales were insisting that I could get broadband as their PC say so.
To cut a long story short, I was offered some compensation to say sorry for the months and months of poor service. And no I still did not have any broadband, in fact after the antiquated equipment I was using with dial up gave up on me I was out of the internet for good.
Now skip 3 years forward, the tennants in flat A have spoke to BT and they say.. Of course we can get you a phone line and of course we can geive you broadband. They signed up to the contract (they even spent 1000 pounds on a nice fancy laptop). The engineer came out to visit and found that they dont have a line, as the new line I paid for 3 years ago was never installed, the guy just screwed on a dummy connection to look like a new line on my neighbours place, and then just re-used flat-A's line. Also we dont have any lines left in the green box for a new phone line and even if there was space, there just isn't the bandwidth to provide any broadband service in my village of coombe.
Now a sorry tale, and I feel sorry for my neighbours who now can't even get a telephone (and this is in the middle of a village not the middle of a moor).
The 72 hours emergency deadline has come and gone, with no reply from BT. The telephone conversations I have had with BT i keep getting fobbed off between customer services and faults department in bombay. All you do is talk to someone and then no action is taken, its like going to some BT therapy session.
The fact that you can right now go to the BT website plug in my phone number and they promise to get me on broadband is just not on. Its also illegal as its against the 1982 provision of goods act. There is no way that BT can say they didn't know that they can't provide this service.
Why should you be able to get away with selling my neighbours a service you can't provide ?, why should your engineers not do the work I paid them for 3 years ago with my new line, and where is the person who takes this sort of complaint and sorts it out.
I have writen to BT, Consumer Direct, the local Trading Standards, Ofcom, and even put a note into watchdog. So far I have received a generic, we think we can fix this from BT which I presume is just generated when you send a mail to them.
BT are currently investing millions and millions in my county upgrading the system to superfast broadband which is why it smarts so much to see that we are getting further and further behind. Kids are falling behind at school, my work is suffering and its a joke that in this day and age that my neighbour can not even get a phone line installed, let alone use 20 year old technology "dial up" to check some E mail. And before you ask ? we can't get a mobile signal as we are in a valley so mobile broadband doesn't work either.
Anyway thats my and my fellow villagers story..

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definitely, it had to be gotten from the philippines apple center. I was so terrified who could they do that to the customer..
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I have called 6 times now and held for over 20 minutes each time and had to finally hang up each time. After fighting with the ambiguas sight that does everything it can to avoid letting a customer chat with a person that can help me I finally get a person to chat with. I was at work at the same time so I did not get back to the guy within a few moments and he cancelled the chat # 01041376694. Now I can't get back into the chat. THIS IS INSANE VERIZON!!! Do you understand that I am not just an unhappy customer; I am becoming a hostile customer to your organization as I will be telling everyone I know about this insanely poor service, billing and inability to get help.
Eventually your going to do this to enough customers and Verizon will be a shadow of what it once was.
I know that I will probably not hear from anyone as I am now on hold for 10 minutes now waiting for a human to talk to. Will probably have to hang up soon when a customer comes into office and yet again not have issue resolved. Thinking about looking into legal options if your organization damages my credit from your collection agency antics. Your choice verizon. I don't even care if you just cancel all the service now. But you mess with my credit and I will seek all legal rememdy.
Sincerly,
Extremly Disgruntled Poorly Treated Customer

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Low BB Speed/ Rural Area

Hi i live in a rural area, aprox 4.7 miles from my local village exchange (according to samknows.com).
We get a speed of 1.25 megs on adslmax according to bt wholesale which is pretty poor in this day and age.
My friend lives only half a mile closer to the exchange yet he is able to get 6megs speed which is a bit more respectable.
Anyway i recently noticed according to bt wholesale are local transfer is being upgraded next month to BT's 21CN product which i have been told is adsl2.
I was wondering if that will increase are speeds any or are we forever stuck with this painfully slow internet?
Im not here to complain or anything, i understand we live in a rural area, but i thought in this day and age there might be a possibility of slightly faster internet.
My bt exchange is :
Exchange name:Exchange code:Locationostcode:
Bushmills
NIBH
Moyle Northern Ireland
BT578QD
Thanks for any info you can give me

Hi gkane05,
You have a very stable and good 1.53mbps sync rate for your 62.3dB (approx. 4.5Km+ long line).
As to the BTw 21cn network which allows ADSL2/2+ modulation (upto 12/20mbps), the ADSL2/2+ modulations are more aggressive to any noise on your line. It may also increase your line attenuation by 2/4dB, therefore on longer lines it can make the connection unstable if your line isn't able to cope with these higher frequencies.
Also when your exchange has been 21cn upgraded, the lines have to be migrated to the new 21cn hardware in the exchange in batches so it can take days/weeks/months for all the lines to be migrated over to the 21cn network. Also you may be kept on ADSLMax (upto 8mbps) modulation but on the 21cn network if your line isn't able to cope with ADSL2/2+.
In my experience, when we were moved to the 21cn network we were kept on ADSLMax (due to having a very long line), however the migration to the 21cn network did upset the line to start off with and then with the help of this forum, the Mods and Openreach we got it back to our usual 0.8mbps to 1.5mbps sync rate.
Your exchange is FTTC fibre enabled. Have you checked whether you're able to get FTTC fibre broadband such as BT Infinity.
If FTTC fibre broadband is available to you however your estimation for WBC FTTC is below 15mbps (due to your line being further than 1.5Km from your FTTC cabinet) then you maybe able to get BT Faster Unlimited Broadband which is an FTTC fibre broadband product for those with less than 15mbps WBC FTTC .
You can check by going to http://dslchecker.bt.com/adsl
Cheers
I'm no expert, so please correct me if I'm wrong

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What about the rural areas ???

As we all know BT's Fibre rollout plans keep getting put back and back. The rural areas are suffering and of course Bt announce BT sport free for fibre users (Yes I'm aware that any non fibre users can use the app to watch sport if with broadband) also to top this off they have announced 18 new channels for fibre users only at a cheap cost. My question is what about the little guys ? My exchange has no plans yet for fibre although 2 miles north or south they have fibre. Why should we be penalised for not having it ? I've had Youview for nearly a year now and to be comepletly honest it seems orientated to fibre users only. Does anyone else feel this way or is it just me ?

"don't moan about it taking a bit longer to get to you" It's not just a bit though Colin its 5 years if not longer could be 10 years. I took Youview on being told by many different Bt staff i could get the same services as everyone else. Surely when the youview service was sold to me they could have explained there and then certain services were for fibre only. It just annoys me to find i can't get these services and even more so things are finally hitting the platform.. Colin really your answer is to move ? bit drastic don't you think ?.

Fast internet provider for rural area using older Mac

I have an iBook G4. Mac OSX10.5.8. I live in a rural area where there are no cell towers close by and dsl isn't an option. Which satellite internet provider would be most effective (fastest, most consistent with downloads) for my older Mac? I also have an Acer laptop, much newer. Would answer to question be the same for both laptops?

There are literally dozens of services on the Internet that provide ISP services comparisons. One, for example, is the Internet Provider Directory. I would suggest trying several to see if they concur for your particular area.

I have been a loyal customer for years and have a hot spot because internet options are very limited in our rural area. I have stayed with 10G since the beginning. Most months I don't use the 10G. Verizon has no problem with me paying for Data I don't

I have been a loyal customer for years and have a hot spot because internet options are very limited in our rural area. I have stayed with 10G since the beginning. Most months I don't use the 10G. Verizon has no problem with me paying for Data I don't use. This month my daughter comes home from College and she accidentally uses 24G.....14 over get blind sided with $140.00 in overages. I called Verizon today......stopped in to the store today......My neighbor told me they waved charges for her one time. Lots of charges.....But I'm am getting no help. Not even an offer of a payment plan to help me out. I went back just 6 months and I have over paid for 19G.....Seems like they would like to help out their loyal customers!!!! Does anybody have any suggestions on how to deal with them? We are not wealthy....or I would just pay this and walk away......

There is a big misconception in what customers believe a cell carrier is obligated to do.
You pay a set price to use up to that amount of xx data. It makes no difference if you use it to the paid limit or way under. Its like peace of mind when you don't have to worry about a data counter.
Your daughter used the data, your plan is quite clear of what overage charges are. Why should or would Verizon wireless just forgive the charges because you are a customer? Your daughter used the data, get the money from her. That is the responsible thing to do.
There is no "I have been a loyal customer so please remove the $120, or $250, or $2,000.00 since I did not mean to use it"
Your electric company, or gas company or any other company does not remove valid charges. Why should Verizon wireless?
Just pay the invoice and don't think you are being mistreated because Verizon is a business and not a charity.
Good Luck

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