Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
Frank Erskine writes:
According to my pal who works for Openreach, there are still thousands
of twisted joints in regular use all over - and used for broadband!

and thousands of customers whose broadband is surprisingly
poor given the distance to the exchange.

On two occasions now I have lost phone connection while maintained
broadband due to a very poor connection while BT were fiddling down the
road.
The broadband attenuation did go through the roof tho'.