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RE: Re: [OT] Broadband Backup


  • Subject: RE: Re: [OT] Broadband Backup
  • From: "Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:23:54 +0100

Hi Patick

> It may be possible to have a second BT line installed on an adjacent
> exchange. I had two separate lines on two different exchanges at my
> last house - this is obviously easier to organise in metropolitan
> environments, or in situations where one exchange is close to
capacity.
>

Being fed from more than one exchange is VERY rare.

Unless you were right on the edge of an exchange area and the next door
neighbour was in a difernet area, the underground cabling wouldnt exist to
facilitate it.

Are you sure you werent just on two different number ranges withing the
same
physical exchange building ?

eg  020 7aaa xxxx
020 7bbb xxxx

In the big cities there is often more than one exchange in a building as in
the days of the strowger "Director" exchanges (London, Brum,
Manchester,
L'pool, Glasgow, Edinburgh) there was a limit of 10000 lines (last 4 digits
0000-9999) on an exchange so the building many have housed 5 or 6
"exchanges"

Keith




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