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Originally Posted by MikkiJayne
2 miles of copper, straight in to the exchange, and more for people further down the same cable run. The most I ever saw on it was 6Mb/s hence the switch to 4G a few years ago. I work from home on Teams, stream TV and music, etc no problem at all.
BT / Openreach / Virgin / etc have no interest in trying to run a fibre along 2 miles of poles along a single track road on top of a windy hill, and they're not allowed to dig up the road to run ducting so we'll never see high speed from ground-based providers here. The same applies to most rural locations in Devon and Cornwall so our only options are wireless services of one sort or another.
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We have a project in our village, not sure who initiated it, to serve the outskirts via this Openreach scheme:
https://www.openreach.com/connectmycommunity
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2003 D2 FL S8. Irish Green Pearl/Beige. Solar sunroof, auto-dim mirrors, electric rear seat functions and extended leather. Ski hatch retrofit. Aftermarket reversing camera. DVB-T and XCarlink now removed as redundant.
2016 Volvo V40 T5 Cross Country (4WD) with ALL the toys including adaptive cruise etc. etc. Osmium Grey with Blonde/Charcoal leather interior. Polestar performance "optimisation".
(A much rarer model than a D2 S8 by the way!) Oh, and a brand new engine at just under 30,000 miles on the factory one!
Finally: gone, but not forgotten.....
1998 D2 PF S8. Agate Grey/Platinum. Every option (I think) except electric rear seats, Tiptronic steering wheel, ski hatch, towbar & dimming door mirrors.
e.g. Cruise control, NavPlus/TV, Bose, GSM, Xenons, Solar roof, Parking sensors, Alcantara/leather everywhere of course.
(internal dimming mirror added later)
1998 (very early) Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec; ABS/TCS, Heated screen/mirrors, Aircon. Added Auto-dim mirror, Leather seats, Trip computer, Cruise control, OEM Ford SatNav with CD changer.
And before that a lot of Rover 800s, a few oddities, a lovely Triumph Dolomite 1850HL with Overdrive and way back in my schooldays an Austin Seven aka Mini 850!
