Article on the beeb today about the high costs of switching broadband suppliers, with people being trapped into contracts and having to pay out high cancellation fees when services turn out to be poor or unreliable.
Unless you live in a major city, it seems the rest of us have to put up with a second rate technological infrastructure 
I've always dreamed of superfast broadband, and got excited when BT announced our local home exchange was being enabled for fibre. I signed up pretty quickly, and by and large it is very good, but I would put reliability at about 70%. There are times when it is slow, and we still have to reboot the router every few weeks when the service drops.
It's not quite the speed and experience promised in the marketing blurb, and as more people take up the offer, no doubt our speed will fall as more people in the street share the same circuit. But it's a vast improvement over the previous non fibre broadband.
Business wise we are still low tech, and fibre is a far away dream in deepest darkest Alcester. Internet speed is adequate for normal business use as long as we don't upload anything, or when Mr Microsoft decides to start squirting patches down the phone lines to our computers
So how does anyone else get on? I'm expecting Barney in London to be transferring files at a gazillion miles and hour, but any businesses out in the sticks like us?
Has high speed broadband made it to your neck of the woods, or maybe you are happy with the connection speed you already have for your business?
Anyone think their broadband connection speed is potentially hurting their business?
