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Yeah. Rather infuriating to be just over the river from the mega banking land and still be staring at buffering icons.
Is the rest of Surrey Quays still that shite? I'd have thought BT would have got their act together by now.
Hovis-
Rather infuriating to be just over the river from the data centres housing the core UK Internet infrastructure
FTFY
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Its not really a problem that BT can afford to solve. Speeds are mainly dictated by distance from exchange and distance from green cabinet that serves your premises. To build more of these is phenomenally expensive and requires a lot of road digging.
We are in a roughly similar situation in our block in Blackheath. Over a mile from the exchange and inexplicably 750m from our green cabinet despite there being other closer ones. Bt have said they wont address this until at least 2028 when they might be rolling FTTP out to the area.
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I'd have thought BT would have got their act together by now.
BT won't ever upgrade - not the wire, at least.
The problem is that the cabinet is in Bermondsey, the physical loop is huge (as in, the wire travels a ridiculously convoluted route), and the wire is aluminium, not copper.
When I lived there, plenty of companies gave chat about fibre and cable, but nobody ever did anything.
Aroogah
Stonehedge
NotThamesWater
Surrey Quays, and it's amazing 1.5MB "broad" band...