Sorry, I didn't explain very well... I live in a village, I'm connected to a very rural exchange with less than 700 lines. (LCORT). As far as I know, there is only 1 cabinet within approximately 2 miles of me, the only other cabinet I have seen is in another village 3 miles away. There are some smaller villages/hamlets, but these do not appear to have any cabs at all! The exchange itself is actually about 4km away from my location - I have a downstream attenuation of 54db.
Which isp are you with now,is that connection stable?
I am with TalkTalk (ex Tiscali), the connection is extremely slow in the evenings, often in the region of 0.5mbps download speeds. During the day it is anywhere between 1-3mbps. Of course, this is on standard ADSL with the appauling 0.3mbps upload speed - there is no LLU or ADSL2+ at my exchange, never mind fibre. However, it will be interesting to see what happens during the Connecting Cumbria Superfast Broadband rollout. Although if BT decide to bring FTTC to this area, chances are it will be of very little use to me