Will do! Might be back for some advise should things not move on in the next few weeks. As I said it's the telephone that's really important now.

Good news! They're online and everything is working okay. More BT engineers showed up Friday and got them connected up with the existing pole. Still don't see why that couldn't happen Wednesdsy but never mind.

Not sure what speeds are like but apparently it's better then they expected and surfing, email and FaceTime is not an issue.

Great.

Is it possible there was some mangled communication and some other work regarding the pole was required but not a new one?

Sounds good. Is that with dialup or ADSL?

In reply to a post by keith969:

Vodaphone and O2 are better as they operate in the 900MHz band which has further coverage than higher frequency operators.

A little simplistic, but one reason why EE (orange/t-mobile) had double the masts to O2 or Vodafone.

The 4G rollout has changed everything for all four networks (EE, Three, Vodafone and O2) - the old rules no longer apply. 4G also travels further than 3G. (simplistic).

ADSL, Sky Connect

In reply to a post by jchamier:

A little simplistic, but one reason why EE (orange/t-mobile) had double the masts to O2 or Vodafone.

The 4G rollout has changed everything for all four networks (EE, Three, Vodafone and O2) - the old rules no longer apply. 4G also travels further than 3G. (simplistic).

Well here in rural Oxfordshire, there's no 4G in our village. I can only get a signal on O2 or Vodaphone, despite being 1Km away from the nearest mast, sometimes not even on 3G.

It's a basic fact that higher frequencies suffer higher atenuation, at least in the GHz range. Just for example, take a wifi router that operates with 2.4GHz and 5GHz. You will find the range of the 5GHz signal much lower than the 2.4GHz one.

Old post I know but I'm visiting this weekend and have been able to test their speeds.

2.88mb at best for the download, was surprised.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/1593306745

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html...