Seems to me that there may still be work going on for e/o lines in bridge of weir. No firm date though

Yeah I have been told previously that there was an indication of new cabinets coming at some point but someone asked on our behalf a few days ago and the reply was that the cost was fairly prohibitive at the moment and that we should manage our expectations Which i'm reading between the lines as "not for a while".

Its fairly frustrating not being able to get even an indicative date from BT, but I guess thats just the way it works.

I believe its two modems and a fancy router. Think I was told it was around £650 for the supplied router but that there were plenty of other models I could get myself for less.

I looked at bonding two ~2.5Mbps ADSL lines but found the setup cost and monthly cost prohibitive for the gains I was going to get.

If you have friends or family who live close to a better internet connection and you have line of sight to them, you may be better investing the money in a second phone line at their property and a set of long range wifi links (ubiquiti or similar). Setup cost may be in a similar range but cheaper on the monthly cost.

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I looked at bonding two ~2.5Mbps ADSL lines but found the setup cost and monthly cost prohibitive for the gains I was going to get.

If you have friends or family who live close to a better internet connection and you have line of sight to them, you may be better investing the money in a second phone line at their property and a set of long range wifi links (ubiquiti or similar). Setup cost may be in a similar range but cheaper on the monthly cost.

Yeah, I'm thinking the same. Don't want to spend all that extra money just to get an extra 1.6Mbps.

Still hoping virgin media will cable my street once the council sort out the road ownership.

Eclipse ISP as well.
But if you want a cheap way follow this.
http://simonmott.co.uk/vpn-bonding

I got my lines bonded through Sharedband, after reading reviews they seemed the cheapest and most highly rated.

Hope this is of some help

Before I got FTTC I used shareband, decent enough service. However the way it works wasn't great for online gaming.