Openreach engineers 4th visit...

I get (at best) about twice that in Central London.

I was upgraded from about 35 Mbps a couple of years ago. I really didn't notice any difference. But then there aren't lots of kids here on line all day.

Nice thing about those LEDs here is they dim them late at night. ;-)

That sounds like very poxy long rural old copper wiring. Are there any peer to peer microwave options in your neighbourhood? They tend to spring up in the zones where speeds are <1Mbps and unreliable.

What signal can you get on a mobile phone?

A 4G Mifi will give you a lot more bang for your buck. I have one with a brace of external antennas but have never needed to use both antennae.

Short term I tend to buy the 12GB or 24GB PAYG SIM allocation for twelve months when on offer for when I run out of tethering capacity on my phone. You have just missed the opportunity of a very good deal on them:

I'm within 10 minutes walk of our local railway station well within the London commuter belt. I rely on my landline (OK FTTC added) to geta ny sensible mobile phone coverage. The local mast is round a corner of a tree covered hill. Upstaits, if I lean out of a window, I can get a 4G signal.

What, Liquorice Allsorts?

Oooh yes please :D

It is with fibre to the kerb.

I can't see BT ever permitting that - they are very protective of their copper network and will not permit anyone else to supply power to it.

It is their requirement for safety certified PSUs that nixed FTTRN and a requirement for mains that limits where they can site FTTC cabinets.

A tungsten filament lamp mounted upright can often blow the supply fuse on failure.

Or 13 year olds with an air rifle. I used to be able to do it reliably.

The power isnt supplied to the copper network, just the box. And the only copper is between the box and the sockets inside the houses. There is just a fibre optic cable from the box to the rest of the network.

That?s why those boxes are powered from the houses, to avoid that problem.

go away tosser

SteveW

Not here, 'here' being the UK. Notice the uk. in the newsgroup names?

Very much better deals than that are available. The going rate is about £1/GB at the moment even if you don't shop around for bargain offers. Though you can pay as much as £10/GB if you don't pay attention.

It was £10/GB/30 days PAYG for quite a while with good discounts from time to time - now you can do quite a bit better than that. EE and Three data SIMs were the best value last time I looked.

I have never known that happen and my spotlights used to take out the mains breaker with monotonous regularity before they became LED ones.

But 100A pulse down the mains cabling isn't going to induce all that much into the telephone line unless it runs very close to it.

The tree is usually still there. The electricity company do proper preventative maintenance every summer but BT wait for failures. Failures invariably occur in the sections where there is only phone line.

Oh I know. My phone is on £20 for 20GB. I could get unlimited for only a fiver more, but they slow it down in peak hours after 9GB and when we are away from home for more than a day, the whole family tethers to my phone.

Unfortunately 3 manages to not work (except upstairs) at home nor inside at work (even outside is not good), despite their website map saying that the former is in an excellent signal zone and the latter a good one. I actually got a contract phone with 3 due to their map, only to return an cancel it when I found how bad the signal was at both locations.

SteveW

one meter the other side of the wall. A bad joint got MUCH worse.

I am with three solely because they were the only provider offering wifi calling on a payg sim. Soi most of my phone calls go through the broadband..

Coincidence. As someone said, a good current pulse is more likely to improve a corroded joint.