Maybe someone with a technical hat can explain why, despite my exchange (Sydenham in SE London) appearing to have suitable cabinets with an appropriate number of flashing LEDs that in theory can provide 20 Mbps, I'm perpetually wallowing through the doldrums of 3 Mbps? I mean, I peeked through the window and they have all sorts of different colour flashing lights. If Captain Kirk had that many flickering lights, we'd be breathing dilithium fumes and he'd be so far thataway that he'd be in the next galaxy but one charming some suspiciously human looking space lady out of her dress. Me, I'm struggling, watching talking kittens buffer. Shiny techno-future, my arse. I don't need sunglasses for this shit. Still waiting for my hover car too.
All seems to come down the string cheese telephone line, which allegedly is copper, and I'm 2 kilometres from the exchange. Possibly the electrons in the wires are scared of the concrete wrong-o-saurs at the bottom of Crystal Palace park. I'd ask BT, but you know how that goes.
In fact, the following should be available.
BT Wholesale ADSL
BT Wholesale ADSL Max
BT Wholesale WBC (21CN)
BT Wholesale SDSL
AOL LLU
O2 / Be LLU
Bulldog LLU
TalkTalk (CPW) LLU
Sky Broadband / Easynet LLU
Tiscali LLU
Tiscali TV (via Tiscali LLU)
Orange LLU (Formerly Wanadoo)
Virgin Media (Cable)