> Out where I live fibre is something you feed to horses. > > But I was talking to a BT man a few months ago and he did say that > eventually they would get fibre out to the green boxes, but that there > was some negotiating to do to arrange electricity to them first. > We got told the same down here in Weymouth, but that was quite some time ago. It seems way down south, we're not important enough to get it. There was a drive on Portland not too long ago to try to make it attractive for 'business' purposes that should have made fibre and such reach us sooner, but no one ever found out what became of it.
> With regard to 'local' wifi Broadband, I can see 14 wifi networks from > my USB stick hanging in the window. Another wifi would just about > pollute the ether completely. And for those of you that are wondering, > they are all encrypted. > Five to nine show up here, and an additional two that interestingly, only Linux seem to be able to pick up. Most encrypted as well. But this is why I prefer to stick to a hard line, and use wireless only to connect to a trusted router (mine). The rest always goes through the good old telling-bone tubes. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
