Night Owl
You are one aren't you?
I usually check thinkbroadband.com most days to keep a check on speeds. In the sticks here, BT claim the line will support only 512kbs, but in the mornings I usually get 940/950kbs. For about three days in Feb I actually got 1.3 mbs! Hold me back! But in the evenings it drops frequently to 250/480kbs which makes a mockery of trying to use things like iPlayer.
Inertia is the main reason I haven't moved before, I confess, but I see my daughter in Bristol having the same indifferent level of service from her ISP. My son in Lincoln has had more ISPs than I've hot dinners and also suffers from erratic performance and he can almost spit on the exchange from his place.
I think my general thesis is that ALL ISPs are crap and that occasional adequate performance is a bonus anywhere in the UK outside big cities. It must be my inate Wee Free pessimism coming through. Thanks again, though, for all your helpful suggestions.
The Ancient Mariner