The ‘premium’ thing is traffic prioritisation on the AA and BT networks. AA is quite dubious about the real world benefits of this, and trying to measure the benefit is hard. I’ve always had it, but cutting it was my contribution to the war effort.
I don’t have the fast time-to-fix extra cost option on any lines any more. Having had it on one line, I tried to buy it for more than one line and BT wouldn’t sell it to AA iirc, for reasons I don’t really understand. Perhaps because the time constraints were totally unrealistic out here.
We have also been spending lots of money; fixing the Rayburn, buying winter food - 90 bales of straw - for donkeys, and are about to have the roof fixed because water is getting in. When we had it totally redone 15 years ago, Janet thinks that inferior wood was used which is not sufficiently robust against the attacks of time, or umpteen other things could be wrong. But that needs doing and materials have already arrived.
The lockdown will end once again and then business will reboot. Visitors who were wanting to come to stay last month have had to be told ‘come back later/watch this space’. Unfortunately one of Janet’s visitors who loves coming every year has had to be postponed, by us, which was a disappointment to them.
We may have talked about the ‘premium’ traffic priority thing in an earlier thread. £10 per month per line seems a bit steep and I assume that’s due to BT’s charges to A&A because in general A&A’s add-on services are really well-priced where they don’t have to pay someone else. Perhaps it costs BT a lot to deliver it. But then I don’t load the BT network up with many packets given the slow speed of my links, and BT’s pricing to A&A is not (I assume) speed-related?
I wonder if it’s the case that however hard I try I won’t be able to see any speed benefit from the premium option because my links are way too slow (esp compared with those of us who have 900Mbps links). Is the reverse true? That is, if you have a 900 Mbps fibre link then priority might be a worthwhile add-on?