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Originally Posted by Carl J
On the upside the majority of the UK can get 4Mbit+ according to BT, which is 'decent' performance in my opinion, contrary to what some might say.
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I'd agree, i think 4meg is a pretty decent average, no ones fault that people live at the back end of no where!
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Originally Posted by themelon
MOST people actually live more than 3km from the exchange. As per OFCOM in the UK 86% of people live within 5Km http://www.ofcom.org.uk/media/news/2006/04/nr_20060426a
17% live within 2km its unlikely that 50% (or most) will be within 3Km
When you consider that there are 6 BT exchanges in Stoke on Trent. Stoke on Trent consists of 5 towns and is quite spread out covering roughly 8 square miles of urban spraul!, the line distance is never as short as the crow flies and an average line distance from an exchange in a city is about 3km (only 1.8 miles). I only live about 2-3 miles from the exchange now but cannot get more than 512k Broadband on ADSL, I have lived in one house where I could see the central Stoke on Trent exchange but could still only get less than 1Mb broadband. BT said the cable was more than 2Km them so there must have been reel round a pole somewhere.
In my experience ADSL is so hit an miss. If you can get it and it works its probably great but if it doesnt and their are line issues it is a total waste of space. A lot of the BT infastructure is so old it really can not cope, it can barely cope with a decent phone line for some. |
I thought that was the case, was trying to remember the % of people within 5km as i saw it on both BT and old NTLs presentations ages ago. Can only hope the government take pitty on 50% of the Nation and start laying infrastructure for them! (That was a joke btw)