You are all too good to me!
Thinking about it, I can’t even imagine 500 Mbps, never mind what CarlT’s world is like. A village to the south of us has, according to rumour, a 5G basestation now, so it has fibre laid for its backhaul and the locals are speculating about getting FTTP given that there’s already a connection to the outside world. The Gaelic-language college smo.uhi.ac.uk, where I was a student many many years ago, is roughly next door, and it has always had its own internet access link to its sister colleges and JANET. That link used to be - and perhaps still is - a microwave link to the mainland, unless they’ve outgrown it. (How does a modern microwave link compare?) This fact has always meant that locals have never had the benefit of a huge customer putting in a colossal order to BT, which would have meant a massive upgrade to access-bandwidth to local nodes would already be paid for by an existing customer.
