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On 12/02/2009 19:12, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Rob Beard wrote: > >> I was looking into broadband for a friend in Paignton who's opening a >> shop on Winner Street. I now see that in Paignton it is possible to get >> ADSL2+ WBC (so up to 24 meg from Enta!), on top of about 4 or 5 LLU >> providers and Virgin Cable in various areas of Paignton. > > I've a client in Victoria Square who's now got the possibility of > ADSL2+ (via Enta), but I've not migrated them over yet. (They don't > have an ADSL2+ capable router for starters!) > >> Turns out O2 (who own Be) are fairly cheap for up to 8 Meg broadband >> when they have their LLU equiptment in the exchange, they charge from >> about £13 a month or if you're an O2 Mobile customer (contract or PAYG >> customer who tops up £10 every 3 months) you can get about £4.90 off so >> the price drops to nearly £8. >> >> /me goes off and grumbles about postcode lotteries and lack of LLU in my >> local exchange. > > Indeed... However I'm not personally convinced about the LLU operators > yet - I think some have backhaul issues from busy exchanges, but they > won't tell you what their backhaul speed is, so who knows! > > Gordon Yep I have heard of some issues on O2 in some areas. At the rate things are going though I think I'll only be able to get over 8 Meg when BT put ADSL2+ in the exchange (around late 2010 I think). Still to think, it wasn't that long ago when all we had was about 45Kbit/sec if we were lucky. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html