I'll try not to be rude, but this power thing and noise and the rest just sound like excuses. I suspect if the Queen was on an exchange only line at Buckingham Palace (rather than an outreach worker for homeless people living in an over priced ex-council flat on the other side of the river) they would all be solved instantly with a bit of metal shielding and some off the shelf kit that in the scheme of things costs tuppence a line.

It is clear this is not primarily a technical issue, but a regulatory one and that is all I (and the outreach worker) needed to know. She will thus almost certainly not be renewing the tenancy for her flat, but will move on to a location where she can get fibre, which contrary to her previous experience (and ironically) seems to be as far from the exchange as it is possible to get in London.

In reply to a post by Desmond:

I'll try not to be rude, but this power thing and noise and the rest just sound like excuses.

If you don't understand the technicalities yourself, you're on shaky ground belittling those who do.

In reply to a post by johnjburness:

but I really DON'T get it!

Most people who haven't done radio comms, won't get it sadly. Its complicated.

Have a look at this page, at the third document, ND1602, and download the PDF:
http://www.niccstandards.org.uk/publications/llu_spe...

You'll find its a 42 page document, and should tell you why. (Its not something I understand, and MrSaffron might be one of the few here who can explain the salient points, the summary in my first post is the high level !).

In reply to a post by Desmond:

It is clear this is not primarily a technical issue, but a regulatory one

Bit of both actually. Regulations to ensure technical DSL products work reliably. Which is why its run by NICC and not by a government quango such as Ofcom, or a company selling products such as Openreach or Kingston Communcations.

Excuses for what?

Why would Openreach, or the regulators, wilfully reduce the speed and coverage of rollout of the product nationally to what on the face of it to you and me should be the easiest customers?

BT, Sky and several other ISPs clearly don't understand the problems either if the exchange of emails I have read is to be believed. Hence my request for clear, concise answers that were in the realms of being believeable. I now have one.

"It is clear this is not primarily a technical issue, but a regulatory one"

Or maybe the regulations are due to technical issues ?

In reply to a post by Desmond:

Hence my request for clear, concise answers that were in the realms of being believeable. I now have one.

You had one in the first reply to your OP [shrug]

Stop making soluble technical excuses for problems created by badly thought through, politically motivated regulation.

The next thing you'll be saying is that looking at porn causes too much power on your line and that access to it needs to be regulated with filters and the like to stop exchanges accross the land from bursting into flames and thus denying orphaned kittens of food and decent cat litter.

Isn't that common knowledge?