Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Traditional BT ADSL packages were 50:1 (residential) or 20:1 (business). I think these are still your only options with a BT-operated connection, and if it's all that rural, you probably can't get any LLU providers.
I strongly suspect you will be stuck at 512 down / 256 up in that house, I'm afraid, unless you can find an affordable deal on an SDSL dedicated line. You're talking many hundreds of pounds a month though, I think - you should check that though.
It's not super rural, that's the annoying thing. Probably about 4 miles from the exchange, but apparently the limit for faster is only 3km which is what, about a mile?
I assume this is an unbundled exchange as I'm not with BT here but got ramped up to 8 meg about 9 months ago with no warning. When I first got this connection in 2003 I was restricted to 512 as the exchange wasn't unbundled then.
Looked at SDSL costs, ouch. Since I'm currently having to pay for two broadband connections anyway I wouldn't have an issue with going to about £50 a month, but £125 for 512k? They can get to fucking fuck!