We often hear about the 'last mile' of copper that runs between telephone exchanges and our houses. We also often hear about distance from the exchange and noisy lines playing havoc with ADSL broadband.

Sadly, it would seem that at least some of the time the ADSL signals actually make it all the way to the customer's premises in a usable state, only to fall at the last hurdle: the ADSL micro-filter.

Until recently I've never given micro-filters much thought. They're...

Ben

Most people reading this will have been introduced to the Internet via dial-up over the copper telephone line.

I certainly was. Not back in the heady 9600bps days, mind you. No, I joined the Internet with the late-to-the-party 28,800bps generation, and was rendered out-of-date in a ping by the mighty 56k.

It all seems like the distant past now ADSL has come and conquered. Indeed, ADSL connections to the Internet are now even cheaper than all but the 'free' dial-up services...

Ben

Bought a Jabra bluetooth headset, cheapest place I could find it was eBay.... that was 2 weeks ago and it's still not here and now the guy isn't responding to emails. Typical. Should of just got in the car, driven the 5 mins to the huge Tesco down the road and bought it there. All for the sake of saving a fiver.

If it turns up I'll let you know.

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