In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Something like that comparison will work for some age groups

Fair point, maybe I should have used a more modern car like a Zephyr Zodiac

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Our village is all fibered up on the main poles. Can't get it though despite it going past the bottom of my drive. The only people who have been connected are those on the outskirts of the village with terrible internet who by being connected gained BT a large subsidy from the EU?/council? It took a day to wire up most distant houses. Just a few people quickly tacking the fibre to the existing poles, didn't even bother pinning up the copper line where it had fallen off. No time at all. So long as they can insist how expensive it is the longer they can justify claiming big subsidy payments to install it.

Its the old dial up story again, BT are going to sweat their existing assets to the last until they are either bribed, forced or competed to upgrade their copper for their own benefit... The amount of money that must be being wasted still putting in new/replacement copper lines when its supposed to be fibre in a few years....

If they are not carefull their market will have hollowed out to 5g before they get around to building it.

So

People are always more likely to post about a bad experience than post about a good one. Over the last month Andrew has found another 178,620 properties that can now order FTTP via the Openreach infrastructure, I wonder how many of them people we will see post on here about that fact.

In reply to a post by heathrow:

HS2, by moving long distance trains which use a lot of capacity, from other lines will release slots on existing railways.


So you benefit if you're nowhere near HS2.

Example: Trains from Aberyswtwyth serve Birmingham New Street. New Street is crowded and there are few spare slots.

HS2 will take Euston trains away, serving Curzon Street and allowing more trains from Aberystwyth to serve BNS. And providing more resilience if service is disrupted.

but I am in Norfolk how will I benefit from HS2

In reply to a post by threelegs:

In reply to a post by heathrow:

HS2, by moving long distance trains which use a lot of capacity, from other lines will release slots on existing railways.


So you benefit if you're nowhere near HS2.

Example: Trains from Aberyswtwyth serve Birmingham New Street. New Street is crowded and there are few spare slots.

HS2 will take Euston trains away, serving Curzon Street and allowing more trains from Aberystwyth to serve BNS. And providing more resilience if service is disrupted.

but I am in Norfolk how will I benefit from HS2

Example: Trains from Ely (with connections from Norwich) serve Birmingham New Street. New Street is crowded and there are few spare slots.

HS2 will take Euston trains away, serving Curzon Street and allowing more trains from Ely and Norwich to serve BNS. And providing more resilience if service is disrupted.