Moving House!!
I haven't posted on here for a while as I'm in the throws of moving house and have just been on holiday - to a cottage near Jameseh's old stomping ground (we were in Tring and, if memory serves, Jameseh's home turf is Berkhampsted which was just up the road!).
I've put in my request for a house move to PN which is due to complete on the day we move in (the phone side at least) with the broadband 72 hours later.
After reading a few horror stories about house moves on here I'm keeping my fingers crossed that all goes to plan.
The only thing I'm not happy about is that we seem to be moving to somewhere where it's touch and go as to whether we can get broadband at all!!! The BT checker says 0.5Meg and that we "may need an engineer"!!! (Where we are just now I sync at 812
. It's not even as though we're moving to the sticks - just that the exchange is miles away!
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it'll not be as bad as the checker says when the actual line is installed (there's no phone line in the house just now as it's a new build).
Anyway, I'm going to be without any broadband at all for a few days from Monday till the whole house move is sorted - how am I going to cope?
I've put in my request for a house move to PN which is due to complete on the day we move in (the phone side at least) with the broadband 72 hours later.
After reading a few horror stories about house moves on here I'm keeping my fingers crossed that all goes to plan.
The only thing I'm not happy about is that we seem to be moving to somewhere where it's touch and go as to whether we can get broadband at all!!! The BT checker says 0.5Meg and that we "may need an engineer"!!! (Where we are just now I sync at 812
. It's not even as though we're moving to the sticks - just that the exchange is miles away! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it'll not be as bad as the checker says when the actual line is installed (there's no phone line in the house just now as it's a new build).
Anyway, I'm going to be without any broadband at all for a few days from Monday till the whole house move is sorted - how am I going to cope?
One would have thought when that huge area was started to be developed - what 10 years ago ? - when Motorola promised the chip factory 
and they built the new roads up to the "Leisure Park by Halbeith road about - that they would have put a new satelitte exchange in ! ?
And even Mutimap's OS maps don't show everything yet !
For those who may not know the area - this was where the Pitreavie Castle / MoD Air sea rescue centre used to be etc.
Now it has one of the two large Sky TV customer service centres !
I
and they built the new roads up to the "Leisure Park by Halbeith road about - that they would have put a new satelitte exchange in ! ?
And even Mutimap's OS maps don't show everything yet !
For those who may not know the area - this was where the Pitreavie Castle / MoD Air sea rescue centre used to be etc.
Now it has one of the two large Sky TV customer service centres !
I
Quote from: pierre_pierre interesting looking here http://www.samknows.com/broadband/mapping/mapping.php
click on the blue house near to you to get details
I tried that.
If you live my side of the roundabout you get maybe 7Mbps; other side 16Mbps.
So it's a slight over-estimate for me.
