Martin Brown wrote:

On 18/12/2019 12:53, Roger Hayter wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:


Nope. Its very unilikely that noise levels will give you a 0-4Mpbs range
on a daily basis on a clean cable.

Its far more likely there were bad joints and crackles on it.

I agree. I get 0 - 0.8Mbps on a 9km cable, and that has occasional
faults which generally bring the availability down to 0 - 10%.

If you are that far down in speed it is worth talking to your ISP or
doing some research into what alternatives might work for you. Options
in North Yorkshire include peer to peer microwave links at 20M and
upwards (largish initial install cost but monthly about the same) or
3/4G and an external antenna on a Mifi all you can eat data deal.

There should be a superfast broadband your county initiative if you
live somewhere with rural 10km cable runs of decrepit wet string.

BT were persuaded to give a neighbour an EE 3G modem because they
couldn't provide him with sensible internet speed or reliability.
Unwelcome side effect was he lost his BT email address when he switched.

Almost every farm and anyone with line of sight onto a node is on the
microwave deal around here. It was Clannet now taken over by Quickline.

Current game plan is a government subsidised community fibre
partnership, and you don't get the subsidy if you've already got a
reasonable connection, no matter where from. AIUI, anyway.

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Roger Hayter