I honestly wasn't aware there were people without gas and sewerage.

Anyway, I completely agree with you, I don't mean to sound moany its just pretty frustrating. I appreciate there are people in a much worse position than I and my heart goes out to them because for anyone who cares about a decent connection it must be incredibly frustrating.

It seems to me people who already get a good connection get offered a wealth of new options and tech, while the select few with EO lines or other such complications through no fault of their own see no resolution in sight and are stuck on highly limited tech for the foreseeable future. Hopefully the next couple of years should see more of a push for these kind of people, but I cant find any evidence to suggest so and we will probably get cut even further adrift.

Its like if FTTrn ever comes out it should be offered to customers like us first but I imagine it will be offered to customers who already get great speeds.

Edited by deleted (Tue 08-Sep-15 20:58:52)

You could always get another line installed and double your speed using load balancing

which ISP offers that?

In reply to a post by MCM:

Just seems unfair that certain people seem stuck due to circumstance outside their control - no other service industry would get away with it.

You mean like those without access to mains gas or mains sewerage?

There are many of us on EO lines experiencing much slower connections than yourself and with no prospect of BDUK or our local authority funding the necessary network rearrangement and installation of FTTC. Hopefully you will get to see better speeds later in the BDUK or subsequent programme.

Agreed, I would love to get that speed on ADSLx, but sadly no chance there.

*** START RANT ***
I would also love for BTOR to finish off our FTTP install that was started back in 2011 when all the hardware was installed on our pole and in the chamber/pit, all engineers say its all done, but the computer says no and will probably remain like that while there are BDUK work going on sadly, it sometimes sucks big time living in greater London, due to no BDUK and being on the FTTP Commercial Project (part of the original 66% Commercial rollout) still doesn't help things, granted ours will get done, but most probably once all BDUK work has completed, that's the part that sucks.

It could be worse, we could be located in a rural area that's not viable for fibre and gets near nothing speed wise on ADSLx, at least we are down for FTTP, just knowing when the engineers get allocated in between BDUK work to come back to finish off any work that may need doing, my guesses is a database issue.

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But at least we have an average speed that allows us to do basic stuff which is more that what some people get.


Paul

It seems to me people who already get a good connection get offered a wealth of new options and tech, while the select few with EO lines or other such complications through no fault of their own see no resolution in sight and are stuck on highly limited tech for the foreseeable future

I agree and hopefully any such scheme will extend to the big cities such as Birmingham and London which were excluded from BDUK funding.

I live on a late 80s development in central London built on a brownfield site. All 75 properties have long EO lines, and we are surrounded by properties including many built this century all of which have the choice of fast FTTC or VM cable whilst we have access to neither.

In reply to a post by Bladesman:

I honestly wasn't aware there were people without gas and sewerage.

Plenty around where I live. At least I have mains sewerage. Some places don't have mains water or electricity!

In reply to a post by Bladesman:

I honestly wasn't aware there were people without gas and sewerage.

Loads of places in Cornwall without gas. Most do have sewerage.

Just do it yourself, plenty of hardware is available for dual-wan load balancing

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Loads of places in Cornwall without gas.

Not to mention Sussex! Some may be surprised that my village got FTTC before mains gas - it wasn't even BDUK but commercial roll-out.

Where my sister used to live had no mains gas and a septic tank in the back garden. My parents don't have mains gas either, they live in the only road in their village that doesn't have gas.