Hi,

I am house hunting in the small towns and Villages around Basingstoke.

I am looking for Broadband details in the following town/villages.

Overton,
Whitchurch
Oakley
and Alton.

Would be interested to hear if Broadband via ADSL or Cable and what
speed do people really get.

Thanks,

Jeff.

On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:23:39 -0700 (PDT), jeffkey1 slept through:

> Hi,
> 
> I am house hunting in the small towns and Villages around Basingstoke.
> 
> I am looking for Broadband details in the following town/villages.
> 
> Overton,
> Whitchurch
> Oakley
> and Alton.
> 
> Would be interested to hear if Broadband via ADSL or Cable and what
> speed do people really get.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff.

You have posted to a special newsgroup set up by
the the NuLabour Government to plug the gaps created by 
the abysmal failure of the Psychiatric Care in the Community Policy. 
which was implemented by the last Tory Government. This
policy was  not only continued but also expanded by this 
NuLabour Government. 
 
The uk.local hierarchy was devised to provide an outlet for
individuals who would otherwise be spending their days sitting
at home wearing an aluminium foil hat waiting for a full moon
to rise. It was hoped that this would reduce the incidence
of nutters out there howling at the moon and frightening the
shit out of their neighbours. Another of HMGs aims and 
objectives was to provide a distraction to take their minds
of the problem of who they were next going to knife to death.
Unfortunately, this group has been taken over by the 
articulate lower middle classes who have succeeding in 
driving HMGs target audience away. Independent research has
shown that it was the amount and quality of the inane drivel,
called small talk which the middle classes are adept at, which
had the effect of doing their heads in. They left to protect what 
was left of their sanity. This has happened to the whole of uk.local.
hierarchy.  This newsgroup in particular is a very good example 
of another HMG failure

I trust this post will help guide you in your future dealings with
this newsgroup.

Thank you.

jeffkey1 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am house hunting in the small towns and Villages around Basingstoke.
> 
> I am looking for Broadband details in the following town/villages.
> 
> Overton,
> Whitchurch
> Oakley
> and Alton.
> 
> Would be interested to hear if Broadband via ADSL or Cable and what
> speed do people really get.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff.

These links might help:

BT postcode checker

http://www.btbroadbandinformation.com/bt-postcode-checker/

Royal Mail postcode lookup (address to postcode)

http://postcode.royalmail.com/portal/rm/postcodefinder

Andy

jeffkey1  wrote in news:0d805bd5-2c40-4b3b-a416-
4cb24cfaec79@d77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:

> Hi,
> 
> I am house hunting in the small towns and Villages around Basingstoke.
> 
> I am looking for Broadband details in the following town/villages.
> 
> Overton,
> Whitchurch
> Oakley
> and Alton.
> 
> Would be interested to hear if Broadband via ADSL or Cable and what
> speed do people really get.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff.

I used to live in Alton when 512k was the standard and got that no problem.  
Test sites now show the postcode I used to live at could get 6Mb.

Alton telephones are fun, parts of the town have 5 digit phone numbers, the 
rest have 6.  I found one website that wouldn't accept my 5 digit number as 
valid.  It's a nice town though with some good real ale pubs.

On Sep 28, 8:36 pm, Tweetie Pooh  wrote:
> jeffkey1  wrote in news:0d805bd5-2c40-4b3b-a416-
> 4cb24cfae...@d77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I am house hunting in the small towns and Villages around Basingstoke.
>
> > I am looking for Broadband details in the following town/villages.
>
> > Overton,
> > Whitchurch
> > Oakley
> > and Alton.
>
> > Would be interested to hear if Broadband via ADSL or Cable and what
> > speed do people really get.
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Jeff.
>
> I used to live in Alton when 512k was the standard and got that no problem.  
> Test sites now show the postcode I used to live at could get 6Mb.
>
> Alton telephones are fun, parts of the town have 5 digit phone numbers, the
> rest have 6.  I found one website that wouldn't accept my 5 digit number as
> valid.  It's a nice town though with some good real ale pubs.

Sounds like its split between two exchanges....

jeffkey1 wrote:
> On Sep 28, 8:36 pm, Tweetie Pooh  wrote:
>> jeffkey1  wrote in news:0d805bd5-2c40-4b3b-a416-
>> 4cb24cfae...@d77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>
>>> I am house hunting in the small towns and Villages around
>>> Basingstoke.
>>
>>> I am looking for Broadband details in the following town/villages.
>>
>>> Overton,
>>> Whitchurch
>>> Oakley
>>> and Alton.
>>
>>> Would be interested to hear if Broadband via ADSL or Cable and what
>>> speed do people really get.
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>
>>> Jeff.
>>
>> I used to live in Alton when 512k was the standard and got that no
>> problem. Test sites now show the postcode I used to live at could
>> get 6Mb.
>>
>> Alton telephones are fun, parts of the town have 5 digit phone
>> numbers, the rest have 6. I found one website that wouldn't accept
>> my 5 digit number as valid. It's a nice town though with some good
>> real ale pubs.
>
> Sounds like its split between two exchanges....

It's more likely that the exchange was extended, and the new range of 
numbers were given 6 digits, leaving the existing numbers unchanged. That 
was quite common.
-- 
John Briggs

On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:36:15 GMT, Tweetie Pooh  wrote:

>jeffkey1  wrote in news:0d805bd5-2c40-4b3b-a416-
>4cb24cfaec79@d77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am house hunting in the small towns and Villages around Basingstoke.
>> 
>> I am looking for Broadband details in the following town/villages.
>> 
>> Overton,
>> Whitchurch
>> Oakley
>> and Alton.
>> 
>> Would be interested to hear if Broadband via ADSL or Cable and what
>> speed do people really get.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Jeff.
>
>I used to live in Alton when 512k was the standard and got that no problem.  
>Test sites now show the postcode I used to live at could get 6Mb.
>
>Alton telephones are fun, parts of the town have 5 digit phone numbers, the 
>rest have 6.  I found one website that wouldn't accept my 5 digit number as 
>valid.  It's a nice town though with some good real ale pubs.

Tweetie Pooh. is that code for Bird Shit? { : -- )))

Tessy  wrote in
news:o2j4e4pltn2kjppe3ida2c9igdo6da00qv@4ax.com: 

> On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:36:15 GMT, Tweetie Pooh 
> wrote: 
> 
>>jeffkey1  wrote in news:0d805bd5-2c40-4b3b-a416-
>>4cb24cfaec79@d77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:
>>

> 
> Tweetie Pooh. is that code for Bird Shit? { : -- )))
> 
> 
How dare you!  Comparing my name to avian lime!  This really is too much.  
I think I'll go eat worms.  :)