In news that will unnerve those with approaching RFS dates, a further four such dates have been pushed back as a result of cabling issues. Albrighton, Blagdon and West Harptree were all due to go live today, but have been delayed due to replacement cable ducting being required. Wylam was due to go live on
I’ve made a couple of small changes to the availability checker this evening. The most useful, which has been requested in a few emails to me, is that it now reports the distance from the postcode you input to your exchange. It is extremely important to remember though that the distance reported is “as the
UK-Bug are reporting that the long anticipated NTL speed boosts are to commence from the 1st of August. 1Mbps users will have to wait until the 1st of September for work to begin on their increase to 1.5Mbps.
It should be noted that although these dates are not yet official, the dates correspond with what
Bradley and Newtonmore have become the latest exchanges to suffer from delayed RFS dates. Both exchanges were due to be enabled today, but due to a new fibre-optic cable being required at both sites, the dates have been postponed.
The new dates are as follows:
Exchange
Old RFS date
New RFS date
Bradley
14/07/2004
20/10/2004
Newtonmore
14/07/2004
25/08/2004
Easynet have announced yesterday that they have now unbundled 200 exchanges for their services, which operate at up to 8Mbps.
The total number of Easynet exchanges now stands at 201, with the addition of the following 19 exchanges since the end of May.
Belgravia
Chelmsford
Crawley
Deptford
Earls Court
Farnworth
Hemel Hempstead
Hounslow
Longton
Luton
Morley
North (Bristol)
Orpington
Sloane
South Shields
St Albans
Tipton
Warrington
Worthing Central
Easynet set themselves a target at the beginning
UK-Bug are continuing their monthly competitions with the opportunity to win a years free subscription to Eclipse’s new FLEX ADSL service. The prize, worth over £380 in total, also includes free activation and hardware. All you have to do to win is decipher the accronym ‘ADSL’ (Hint: Google for it!).
If you want a shot at
Following the news yesterday of the 150 additional SDSL exchanges I’ve updated the individual exchange pages to reflect the changes (if applicable), modified the SDSL tables and produced a nice map of all the SDSL exchanges.
One interesting exchange on the new list is Dunning. This exchange is not yet even ADSL enabled, so it is
BT Wholesale have today announced the next 150 exchanges to be enabled for their SDSL products.
SDSL is targetted at small businesses who need to be able to send data just as fast as they can receive it. This can be very useful for sending very large emails, voice over IP, and video conferencing.
This news has