John Rumm coughed up some electrons that declared:

Tim S wrote:

Athough I haven't tested the actual throughput yet, I'm getting a sync
rate of 7.5 MBit/sec on a short hop of old overhead line, and the
exchange is 1/2 mile away.

At my last place we were about a mile from the exchange, and I got a
rock solid 8Mb connection. Shame the same can't be said of here, where
even 2Mb would be nice!

Given the state of the wires, I'm quite pleased with 7.5 - beats Pembury.

I was expecting worse