On 18/12/2019 11:37, Martin Brown wrote:
On 18/12/2019 10:30, John Rumm wrote:
On 17/12/2019 20:16, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 17/12/2019 19:38, polygonum_on_google wrote:

[1] Appalling meaning a good day gave 4 Mbps download. A poor day
gave 0.07 Mbps. A bad day gave 0.0 Mbps. Hence moving to FTTP was
essential.

Then you had an unresolved cable fault.

Had similar here - the unresolved cable "fault" was that there was 6km
of the stuff!

Probably with plenty of bad joints often flooded with brackish water if
our local configuration is anything to go by. They sometimes upgrade
exceptionally bad lengths of cable but there is neither rhyme nor reason
to what gets done. They only do the bare minimum they can get away with.

Our ADSL2+ service manages about 2Mb down 0.6 up with a loop attenuation
of 62dB. To be fair its relatively stable, and only completely fails
once or twice a year. Its got slower with age - there was a time it
could do about 3 to 3.5Mb about 10 years ago. Most of it is overhead, so
it can get affected after very heavy rain, but does not suffer as much
as some.

It took a couple of years of waiting for FTTP to move from FTTPoD to
actually installed and useable - but now its here its a whole different
world :-)

Rural telecoms like the rural mail service is simply not profitable.

Indeed, and also technically more difficult to service even if the
coercion / subsidy etc is there to pay for it.


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Cheers,

John.

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