@ Uncy,
I like your "high fibre" joke !
@ everybody,
A worthy kitizen suggested I should change the title to encourage everyone to watch the article.
I find it quite hard to understand why
Broadband Bill can keep such a straight face with his confident assurances when it is quite obvious that his poor minions are unable to defeat the laws of physics.
Those interested in some empirical research upon the vexed subject might like to read this short paper:-
http://www.texp.co.uk/downloads/Broadband%20Performance%20Ewhurst%20-%20Issue%202.pdfFor the benefit of newcomers BT chose to destroy the Ewhurst SEEDA Grant-Approved project which specified a generous capacity of 500 VDSL services each and a full fibre backbone to solve the outliers' difficulties.
After two re-excavation upgrades within the first 9 months of operation we now have a total capacity of 356 services with cabinet 20 now "closed" for the third time.
The real sting in the tail is that, as this was a "commercial development", Ewhurst is totally excluded from any SCC State Aid and BT are under no obligation to solve the serious (and now uneconomic) shortcomings of their FTTC design. So much for our "Big Society" initiative !!!!
The only escape seemingly available is the extremely unlikely appearance of a generous philanthropist prepared to wait many years for a B4RN type solution to break even from the income of the sparse outliers, possibly aided with other adjoining areas along the route to a non-BT supplied dark fibre.
Kind regards,
Walter