I may have previously mentioned about a tale about a colleague who, a few years ago, contacted Telewest (later NTL:Telewest and now Virgin Media) to enquire about cable reaching the shores of rural Hereford/Herefordshire. They just laughed and put the phone down.

It seems to me that we get the worst of all worlds, not small enough to provide a "local" solution, but not "big" enough to be anything other than a low simmer, back burner project to the likes of BT or Virgin.

Perhaps I'm being a little churlish. Recently some phone line hieroglyphs have appeared on the paths outside; is it possible that BT are looking to install a fibre optic line; am I truly going to get my 2Mbps? But even here it rankles that whilst some are going to experience the benefits of super fast broadband 100Mbps +, I'm being expected to cough up a surcharge to experience a speed that is 400% worse than some are already getting.


My latest speed test, which is fairly typical.