ADSL Speeds...
Out here in Spain, in the sticks one largely has to go with whatever is available and that means Telefonica. Other ADSL suppliers all lease space on and interface with the Telefonica infrastructure at some point and are thus subject to all the same faults and failures.
Now here's the rub... we have a contracted rate of 3Mbps /320Kbps and since October last year are having a seriously bad time with the actual speeds, especially uploads... Apart from a short window between around 2am and 3.30am when the speed is something like that contracted, our 'normal' upload speeds are in the region of only 20Kbps... too slow to put attachments onto emails, far too slow to upload pics to Photobucket and much too slow to update our blogs and websites.
I have been in regular contact with Telefonica about this ongoing problem and their oft repeated response is... 'We know about the problem and are working towards a solution...'
Wimax isn't really an option... no line of sight to the nearest mast.
Satellite OK but expensive for the amount of data transfer we need to keep our websites and blogs going and the Sat. ISP's are all too fond of their 'Fair(!) Usage Policies'
Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated...
pp