>> I still use ours as the signal in the house is poor and drops out
>> quite often.
Pretty much mirrors my experience. OK in some rooms upstairs but can be very droppy and distorted downstairs. Better at back where we have a line of sight towards Northampton and M1. When I call home leaving work it's always to the landline - kids use it too.
Mobile certainly not good enough for data so I need a landline for that. Need to re-sort it though, I'm still getting the landline from one supplier (Talk-Talk) and ADSL from another (Demon).
Mrs B keeps suggesting we need the fibre to cabinet service that would considerably advance ADSL speeds. She bases this on slow downloads of documents - we don't game, stream films or (in any quantity) music. I suspect issue for her is slow servers in academia: I don't have issues with Parliamentary website, various legal and campaign sites etc from which I keep myself professionally informed.
OTOH it's not as if we can't afford the extra cost so perhaps I should just 'go for it' and start watching Netflix to boot.
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