Many disscusions relating to Broadband seem to be centering aroung the Speed (or lack of it) in rural areas. I run a business in Lamerton which is reliant on an Internet connection and yet I cannot get a land-line connection at all. I have to rely on a very poor mobile phone connection which can sometimes take 15-20 minutes to download my on-line booking facilities.
Before we go spending vast sums of money on"Superfast Broadband" let's have money spent on giving everyone a good basic broadband service as a priority.

By bergstrom at 10:34 on 30/03/11

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Yes hear hear! Not at all fair when there will be people just a few miles away enjoying one of the 'best broadband services in the world'! - but paying the same prices.

By tanker10 at 11:48 on 30/03/11
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This is the whole idea - fibre optic cable is comparable in price to copper cable now. It is a matter of getting Fibre Optic To The Cabinet (FTTC). Lamerton has a cabinet and it will bring the speed the exchange gets - which is a minimum 20 Mbps. At that point any poor copper line or dry joints can be identified. There is marketing hype and a minimum speed for Superfast Broadband. But this is on top of a proper Fibre Optic Network being in place. Money spent is on this Network. That is actually the improvement that is sought to improve broadband and in your case have any chance of a land line connection.

By pobox112 at 11:49 on 30/03/11
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As some of you may know I was a Royal Marine and although have a Tavistock number I live out at Lamerton… and I know I had a slow speed with the internet… So I went on the RM site where you can ask all sorts of questions… and asked about broadband internet speed…
Here are some of the replies…
First was advice

Hi Yorkie,

Go to http://tinyurl.com/lywc9 and do a speed test and post the result.

So I did mine……

Just done mine

Down load.. 0.49

up load.. 0.08

ping 93

I called out the BT engineer…. Here are the results from the rest of the lads… The one on the Isle of Mull….lives in the middle of nowhere… I mean it!!!

Me Lamerton first 0.49 0.08 93
Me after eningeer 0.50 0.37 116
Me again after school 0.50 0.37 56
Isle of Mull 0.49 0.24 26
Exmouth 2.04 0.59 67
Plympton 4.56 0.73 125
Almeria Spain 0.85 0.20 163
Rye 2.44 0.38 33
Glasgow 50.28 1.62 16
Rugby 6.08 1.00 41
Tavistock 1.7 0.13 6
Tavistock 2 4.58 0.19 89
N. Virginia, USA 33.61 3.5 38
Bognor Regis 0.99 0.20 108
Maidenhead, 36.9 8.26 20
West Wales 0.83 0.35 108
Watchet, Somerset 3.03 0.36 59
Belfast 5.35 0.66 78
Kaiwaka, New Zealand 6.08 3.40 15
Norfolk 2.32 0.24 39
Manchester 9.86 0.98 28

Try it… then call out the BT engineer..

Yorkie who did this by pen and carbon paper.. It was quicker!!

By yorkiemalone at 17:34 on 31/03/11
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potbox112..... Lamerton has two suppilles of telephone line... one is at the Tavi end of the village by Venn Corner.... and that I belive supplies the village itself... but the main road... is supplied from Mary Haye on the outskirts of Tavistock...

By yorkiemalone at 17:42 on 31/03/11
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yorkiemalone - Thanks for the update - Greenhill appears to be the dividing line. How far really poor broadband goes down the hill or main street is unknown. BT actually know the broadband speed on every line. Making yet another time delaying and time wasting Devon County Council Survey a farce.

By pobox112 at 18:12 on 31/03/11
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