This is the explanation I got from Bell, my ISP, as to why I can't get broadband. Can anyone translate it.


It appears that at the moment, we are unable to provide DSL to your home. Unfortunately, your line is on loaded plant. The load coils are required on extra long run of telephone cable (local loops exceeding 18,000 feet in length) to improve and ensure the voice quality of a phone line. What this loading does is to insert inductance in a local loop circuit to offset the effect of capacitance in the cable. This prohibits digital signals and ADSL signals from passing through the load coils. Unfortunately, we can't remove the loading in this case because of the way the network is designed. This affects a number of lines within your area. Given the distance along the line from our serving point, the provisioning of ADSL would have provided only marginal signal strength at best