/me chuckles at TheBaronragger.

Fixed your nick for you .

Edited by RobertoS (Sun 18-May-14 14:26:22)

One of our quotes a while back for a 2Mb leased line was £360K install. We installed about 600 connnections and this was the most expensive quote (we didn't go ahead with it).

Hi Andy,

As others have mentioned there's no doubt that you could get a leased line into your home. That said...

Leased line providers typically don't see home addresses as attractive to dig to. There's only 1 niche customer and they can't leverage more services from other Companies in the building.

There could be significant ECC or extra construction charges.

Additionally credit checking is much more stringent as leased lines are on longer term contracts and the provider is often looking to recoup up front costs.

Someone mentioned bonded FTTC and this may be a good option for you to explore.

Hope this helps, Rob.

In reply to a post by andyfoo:

Why? Well, I'm lucky enough to be able to work from home a decent amount, but for this to be practical in the long term I really need a fast, stable connection - neither of which are satisfied by Sky or Plusnet FTTC at this time.

Just curious - what would you need that kind of bandwidth for? Could you not just remote into a machine at your office and work that way instead? That's what I've always done when working remotely and that way almost anything will suffice - even an analogue modem at a pinch

An added advantage is that you don't have to lug a machine to and from home/office (with the attendant security issues of doing that) and no need to keep multiple machines in sync. Just remote into your normal workstation and pick up where you left off the day before.

Edited by Andrue (Mon 19-May-14 14:26:21)

Hey all, thanks for all the comments and suggestions! I suspect EFM or bonded ADSL may well be about the best option, until FTTPoD rolls around into this area (I assume timings for this are all up in the air, and the best I can do is keep looking out for the exchange upgrade announcements from BT / check the BT availability tracker every now and then)

Hi Andrue, I can do a reasonable chunk of work through terminal services, but I'm usually required to source required software and ISO's myself and upload them into work environments initially. Usually at the start of a project, we need a bunch of Windows and SQL ISO's throwing into a datastore somewhere, which I can either try and do from home (maxing the upload on my VDSL2 line does start to lag out other things though) - or head into the nearest office (50 miles away ) and bung it all through the corporate network - although there are times when corporate and project environments aren't linked, and the only alternative then is to physically visit the datacentre (200 miles away ..) and move stuff around that way.

nb in non-work activities, if I had a decent chunk of bandwidth, I could skip hosting some things on VPS servers and instead run them off my own server(s) at home - I'm not clear on this but I think that is generally frowned on with a consumer-grade connection if not outright banned by some ISP's, so a business-grade internet at home would probably make life a lot easier for work and non-work stuff

Edited by deleted (Mon 19-May-14 14:30:17)

In reply to a post by andyfoo:

but I'm usually required to source required software and ISO's myself and upload them into work environments initially.

Ah, yeah that can be a pain. If you can download the ISOs as a file you could use a virtual CD driver to mount them. We used to do that where we could but of course some suppliers insist on physical media

Mind you at my last office we had the opposite problem and one occasion I drove home (10 miles) in order to download an ISO then burn it to DVD and take it back into the office. It was still faster than waiting for it to download at the office