You lot should thank your lucky stars you can even have decent ADSL... I
live right in between Portsmouth and Southampton, RIGHT ON THE EDGE of the
two telephone exchanges, so even tho it's a massively built-up area I'm too
far from each exchange... Thus I can only have NTL, which SUCKS (and oh my
god... Never ever phone technical support unless you fancy driving your own
fingernails into your skull through frustration), and crashes 8 to 9 times a
day forcing me to reboot my cable modem and router... And because the area
is so massively over subscribed, it's only going to get worse!
Perhaps you should look at setting up your own wireless link:
I suggested that as a joke a while back. He has access to an office down the road that has BT broadband, but his house is quite a way up the hill, though while i'm looking on guides to building directional antennae, if you get it right, you can get a considerable distance, a few kilometres, there was an office that set up a directional antenna and got an access point 18Km away IIRC and another guy who got a link with an access point a considerable distance away in new zealand so it is probably worth having an experiment, even if only its a backup connection for when NTL packs in.
Dan
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