We received a letter from BT today, addressed to "The Householder" with no street address so must have been delivered by hand. It's just the ordinary marketing bumph about their phone and broadband services, but as far as I was aware we can't even get BT where we are (Brough), so I called them out of curiosity.
The girl checked my postcode and landline number, and said that we could get "from 0.5 to 8 Mb/s", but as it's only just been made available recently they're unable to estimate an actual speed. We get up to 15 Mb/s with Karoo and to be honest we're quite happy with it apart from the price so don't think we'll bother just yet, but was wondering how BT can be offering their services round here?
Unfortunately while they can check it, thats probably as far as you will ever get. They will probably even let you order it and give you an install date, which will come and go and finally you will get back to where you started. I can't recall ever seeing BT digging up the roads here to pipe us all into their network so its probably not going to happen.
I have heard even on this forum of people getitng install dates for BT lines in Hull, it just never happens. Their system seems to allow them to allocate the installs even though there is no exhange for them to do it on!
I don't think there are any BT lines in Brough, we are on the boarder but not close enough. The nearest exchange is North Cave / South Cave.
Incidently with your "upto 15 Mb/s" what do you actually get on your peak download speeds?
Can you run some speedtests for me from
www.speedtest.net (using the manchester and hull test servers) after 8pm if its not too much trouble.
Cheers,
Mike
