Thank you, Mr Saffron.

Perhaps I should have mentioned that the setup here has actually been checked over as OK, not only by a bloke far more knowledgeable than me, but by one of the visiting BT folk. This friendly guy's unofficial expertise only cost me two cups of coffee.

As I mentioned, I think it is significant that TB's map shows a heavy concentration of slowspots round the area, approx 2km radius, west of the Windsor exchange. One theory is that there's still a lot of old underground aluminium cable round about, which obviously wouldn't be good news even with fttc.

Engineers are frequently in evidence. There's a sort of contest locally - a bit like looking out for Eddie Stobart - when we contest to count the highest number of Openreach vans we can see (extra points for bum cleavage seen sticking out of a cabinet or a hole in the road).

I useually go through windsor on a regular basis have seen quite a few green cabs, one in old windsor where i saw all the ducting being put it etc for the new cab next to the old one.