Sky join the party

Sky (Easynet) have also installed equipment in the Wansford exchange very recently, as I discovered an ADSL2+ connection in Wansford today at 16M :-

Modem Status    ADSL Link Up

DownStream Connection Speed     16380
UpStream Connection Speed       1117
VPI     0
VCI     40

Faster services from Talk Talk !

Gosh - Wansford has some new equipment.

Talk Talk have installed their own equipment in the BT exchange at Wansford, so they can now supply ADSL2+ services to our area. They may not have the best reputation, and we all hate call centres, but T-T can now offer line rental with evening & weekend calls and broadband for under £20 per month.

ADSL2+ will mean speed increases to over 8M for most Wansford and Yarwell residents. Further out you may also gain a few hundred kbits/s which might be significant in Wittering.

Money allocated

DCMS have announced the allocation of money by BDUK to bring superfast broadband to the "Final Third" ie areas like ours that are unlikely to get it through normal commercial methods.

Northamptonshire has been allocated £4.08m and Cambridgeshire (including Peterborough) £6.75m which is around £50 per property in the areas where government funding can be used without offending EU "State Aid" rules.

The local BBC TV ran a news item about Cambridgeshire's allocation.