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**Chris** · 06-11-2010, 14:50

The Scottish Executive paid for dish connections for all the premises north of here that wanted them, as the DSL speed drops off a cliff right after it passes our house. Unfortunately what you gain in speed and reliability is more than offset by the terrifyingly high price of subscribing to one of the satellite-based services.

I take your point about most countries not even having dodgy 2-meg DSL, but then most countries still have a problem with cholera. We're (miraculously) still a G7 economy and we should be paying a little more attention to the infrastructure needs that will keep us there.

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Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,388	Re: BT "Race to Infinity" site The Scottish Executive paid for dish connections for all the premises north of here that wanted them, as the DSL speed drops off a cliff right after it passes our house. Unfortunately what you gain in speed and reliability is more than offset by the terrifyingly high price of subscribing to one of the satellite-based services. I take your point about most countries not even having dodgy 2-meg DSL, but then most countries still have a problem with cholera. We're (miraculously) still a G7 economy and we should be paying a little more attention to the infrastructure needs that will keep us there.