UK Broadband coverage

[doug]

Just saw this on the BBC website and thought I would pass it on.

BBC - Broadband news item

[-pops-]

Broadband was available here very soon after its launch, even though I'm in the back of beyond.

Reason? The then chairman of BT lived just down the road. I was getting short bursts of 2Mb way, way before it was generally available. Don't think we will be so ahead now as there has been a change of BT captain, well, two since then, I think.

[catgate]

We are still on a cable that was laid, from the village three miles to the East, to the village two miles to the West, of us, in 1938.

Earlier this year BT contractors came and laid trunking between the two villages and put in a new cable. We rejoiced ( as you would) until about three weeks ago. At that point the 'phones went off. Some times we could use BB but never the phone. After about a fortnight we got the 'phones back. I saw a couple of Outreach chaps working at the roadside a few hours before we were reconnected and I asked them what was happening and how it was that a new cable could go down so soon. It turned out that there are about a dozen or more of us, between the the villages, who are still on the old '39 cable!! So it is not just laying the cable, it is making the horse drink.

[andsome]

Cable was laid a long time ago round here, even though we are no where near to a big city. We had it installed in our house within a few months of it being available, through NTL, now Virgin of course. We have alway been more than happy with it, except that in the early days the back up was lousy, and a 45 minute wait for telephone assistance was normal, and e mail assistance could take up to three months for a reply. Things are fine now. :D

[CurlyWhirly]

UK broadband coverage

http://www.btwholesale.com/getbroadband

It's not UK broadband coverage that is the problem as over 99% of the population can get it.

It's the speed that is the issue if you happen to live in an area that doesn't have cable and you live a long way from the exchange like myself :(

[CurlyWhirly]

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/maps.php?id=25

As you can see from the map (above), cable enabled areas are in major towns and cities and this is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future so we will continue with 2 tier broadband until a fibre optic network covers the whole of the UK.

[rong]

Dose anyone know anything about The Post Office broadband, eg is it run through a third party, speeds etc.

[Irene]

Dose anyone know anything about The Post Office broadband, eg is it run through a third party, speeds etc.

I don't personally, rong, but here are a few reviews.

I appologise if you have already done this exercise.

Some Post Office Broadband reviews

Press "Click for more reviews" just after the first three.

[rong]

Seems to answer some questions, will have to wait for them to get their act together and see what the speeds are in the evenings. Not very impressed with broadbandgenie, they put two fairly posative reviews on the first page when there seems to be teething problems from reading the latest reviews. With Pipex at the moment and they are really slow in the evenings, less than one meg when I'm on 8 meg, I get 4.5 at the best but would not expect much more. Last time I phoned them about it they didn't seem bothered so like all of them the bigger they get the less the customer counts, they used to be one of the best.