In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Still a few exchanges that dont even have ADSL some 12 years after they started

20 in the Western Isles of Scotland, 3 in South-East England, and 3 in Eastern England (including 1 in London's docklands with 12 subscribers).

Most had 100-200 subscribers, so I guess we're talking 3000-4000 properties?

Yes I did. But they made to change to the monthly allowance and a small price increase and it was their decision that they would allow people to leave. Which to be fair was very decent of them.

Ignore the docklands one, its a corporate customer type cab.

Western Isles had wireless option for some time. Hence my saying a few.

Your previous message piqued my interest, so I went to have a look. An exchange that still doesn't have ADSL is obviously off the list for a reason... and it seems that these exchanges have fewer subscribers than your average suburban cabinet.

In the end, it isn't about whether an exchange supports ADSL, it is whether a subscriber can get to the internet by any means - and wireless is indeed probably more appropriate in the Island cases. I imagine the backhaul is the tricker aspect, anyway.

In reply to a post by hareng:

I wish i could have got near half of your current speed for 6 years, i fact 1/8 of it for 4 years, prior to that costing a fortune on dial up to 2005 as adsl wasnt available to me without a severe push to BT, think yourself lucky. Probably paying same price to, now tell me its a lottery.
Balls on the other foot now.

Speedtest.net tells me that 52% of the UK population has a faster connection than me. So I'm fully aware that I'm better off than many people. I was actually thinking more about those people who still have sub megabit connections when I wrote my post. As mentioned on other forums the real world impact of going from your speed to FTTC speeds should be lifestyle altering. For me it will mean peak bandwidth per person in my home would increase 10x which would make a difference to my online behaviour.

In reply to a post by WWWombat:

Is isn't a lottery. And there is something you can do about

The lottery part of my statement applies in many ways. Distance from cab for FTTC, distance from exchange for ADSL, OR going with FTTP instead of FTTC, RF interference killing bandwidth, proximity to a 3G mast for wireless access, the list goes on...

Also not everyone has the flexibility to move where the Internet access is better. I moved to my current home 6 years back when Fibre was nowhere. As you say when I next move it will be up there in my list of requirements!

Edited by deleted (Sat 04-Feb-12 11:45:00)