Exchange and telephone line question

Hello everyone

I've just bought a property in Inverness-shire. There is currently no telephone service (it has been stopped) although there is a telephone line in place.

The property is about 1 mile by road away from the Dalchreichart exchange (NSDCR) in one direction and about 8 miles by road from the Glenmoriston exchange (NSGMT) in the other.

My neighbours - directly next door - are connected to the Glenmoriston exchange and get a fixed speed of 512k ADSL. I'm sure that the available speed would be much higher if I could be connected to the closer Dalchrichert exchange, though.

Is there any way to have the telephone line re-routed to the closer exchange? Who would I have to contact within BT to find out about this? I will otherwise have to get satellite broadband in order to work effectively from home since 512k isn't fast enough for the stuff I have to do.

Many thanks for any advice.

In a word no. The BT network is setup for you to be connected to a particular exchange. You would need to offer a very large amount of silver for BT to install new infrastructure to the alternate exchange.

In reply to a post by Rockh:

You would need to offer a very large amount of silver...

Probably a number with 3 or 4 zero's after it.

But even if you had that sort of money, there's no guarantee that BT would be bothered to do it.

Satellite sounds like a plan.

Depends on what work from home means, e.g. you will need an upstream and a lot of satellite solutions rely on dial-up or a broadband connection for this.

2 way satellite can cost a fair bit more, and if the work is latency sensitive may not be any good.