gremlin wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2024 9:30 am
Rockburner wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2024 5:10 pm
gremlin wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2024 4:59 pm
Similar results from all speed tests, i.e anywhere from 32mbpd down to big, fat zero. BT will only accept the results from their one, mind. And even then, tell you it's not true.
Time to get shot of them.
Got VM coming around next week to survey Chez Gremlin to see if they can run a cable into the property. As long as it comes down the south drive and into the servant quarters, via the trout lake, there shouldn't be a problem.
They did come around some years back. The bloke knocked at my door, we went outside and he told me how much road they'd have to dig up to get the cable to the front of my property. Then the amount of drive they'd have to lift to run the cable to the front. Then the faff of how to get it to the right room in the house. He looked at me, shrugged and said, 'I'd stick with Sky if I were you, mate'
I had a conversation with BT that went like this :
me: "What sort of connection can I get at this address?"
BT: "Hmm, well - the address is over 4km from either of the nearest exchange boxes, and there's no fibre provision listed*, so you're likely to get about 2Mbs at best, regardless of what contract we offer"
me: "Is there anything we can do about getting a better connection?"
BT: "Move."
me: "..... "
* The kicker to that statement: there's a fucking fibre exchange less than 100 yards from the house (the fibre lines for the villages to the south of us run down our road), but because there's only 4 addresses in the postcode we're at the very bottom of the OpenReach list for provisioning.