Wouldn't mind somewhere near the 8 meg they quote (BT).

Never had more than 6 (currently 4, and it's hardly a peak time).

BT are installing fibre to local cabinets from their exchanges. The last section will use existing copper cables. The laying of fibre caused massive upheaval to traffic and was very expensive. Why would we want to go through that again? We are stuck with the consequence of the right to lay fibre being sold off to private companies by Thatcher. At least BT will provide an element of competition with their upgraded system, BT Infinity.

In my view, utilities should be publicly owned. Privatisation has brought no benefit through supposed competition and we are at the mercy of foreign compnies for supply and future enhancement of electricity and gas supplies, for example. In order to get new nuclear power stations built, we will have to meet whatever demands are made in terms of subsidies.

Al94

The major disruption to traffic was when fibre was installed by NTL et al. I believe that there is minimal disruption, if any, in comparison as a result of BT installing FTTC. I am sorry if I did not make that clear.

Autoschediastic I wasn't criticising your choice - some of us don't have the cable(VM) option. I don't, even though I live, quite literally. in the centre of Edinburgh. On the other hand my O2 "up to 20 Mb" gives me a constant, stable, 18 Mb which is adequate for my needs. In part this is through optimising the performance of the router, on the basic settings the D/L speed is only some 15Mb. But if 100 Mb were to become available I might be tempted!!