[CarolineJ]

About 3.5mb here, Armadale, north coast of Scotland.  I was part of the Ofcom rural broadband tests, so I have a Samknows box plugged into mine that runs seven speed tests a day and sends the results back to them for monitoring, I get a report every month. 

[Marches Farmer]

Goodness me - reading those speeds makes me feel quite well off!
Foobar - many thanks for that info/link - I'll have to look into that; it does seem strange that the problem starts at the same time every evening.

Our broadband kept dropping out and we found it was due to birds nesting on top of the telegraph pole that'd stripped the insulation off the wire so it kept shorting out.  We really had to jump up and down to get a  BT engineer and fix it.to come out and climb the pole

[ladyK]

0.5 MB here 
Only 2 miles from the exchange in town, but we are at the end of a farm lane...

EDIT: only 5 mins later the same test showed that I have 2MB speed. wow.

[Jukes Mum]

1.13 MB here today. That is better than usual actually :-)
The next village has superfast broadband, but apparently it was not economically viable to do our hamlet.

[Bionic]

Superfast broadband in in the process of being delivered to our village but apparently I am on an EO (exchange only) line which means I won't get it

[Womble]

We can't get anything at all over the phone line (not even a proper voice conversation if it has been raining!). HOWEVER, we can get 3G, via both 3-mobile and O2 (we currently pay £18 a month for 15GB of data on 3-mobile).

Also, I've just upgraded the broadband dongle this week to a whizzy new 4G-ready wireless router that takes an external "MIMO" dual antenna. It's all a bit technical, but what I can say is that we're now getting 8-9 MB/s download and 2 upload, which is fast enough for most things. Also that's just with the antenna sitting inside on the windowsill, so hopefully once we've got it mounted on the house roof, it will be even better.

So, if you're struggling with poor speeds over your phone line, do recheck 3G coverage for your area, as more and more areas are now starting to get reception. HTH!

[doganjo]

2.92 download, 0.6 upload

Just the other side of Stirling from you Womble 

[cloddopper]

Recently moved over to BT high speed fibre  currently 32.6 up load and 11.2 down load .
We are using  six WIFI linke to the modem at present so if I can run the cat 5 cabling and hard wire it I should be able to get almost 50 up and 25 down .

It is fantastic and for those of you that don't yet have fibre optics keep heart , Rome wasn't built in a day .
Pulling hundreds of thousands of miles of fibre optic from the major exchanges to local ones and then putting in new road side cabinets on fibre is hard work that goes on in all weathers  & yes it is horrifically expensive .

 I dare say that due to recent political interference and nudging from the other comms companies in some case BT will be forced to put in discounted satellite & microwave  systems for some of the really remote places as it may work out as the cheapest option in the end .

[Womble]

Cloddopper - nicely done (not jealous at all!  ). 

I'm involved with our local Development Trust, who are trying to improve broadband access in our area. Our current situation is that Community Broadband Scotland have funding to provide better broadband solutions for rural areas in Scotland (the final solution depends on what's appropriate for the area in question). HOWEVER, we're currently stuck because the funding is only available to areas that BT confirms will not be connected to fibre any time soon. We've been waiting for that list to be published for months now, and can't move forward until that happens  .

As I said above, we're not too bad on 3G, but our neighbours just around the corner get nothing at all. Ain't that great in this day and age when cattle movements must be done online, etc etc ?

[artscott]

We average 0.6MB, but we are 2.5 miles from the village exchange (at the end of a long piece of string with a tin can on the end!)


Never had more than 1MB, and drops out a bit too.


I'm not moaning though, would go back to dial up or even writing letters to live here!

[john and helen]

according to that test..11.15mb 

[ramon]

Another clip from a government website:
 The Government has pledged to offer all UK premises access to broadband speeds of at least 2Mbps by end of 2015.

I would suggest that those with speeds less than this write to their MPs and let them know the reality of rural life. However having tried this and received promises from my MP that he would take up this issue the result was that I received a letter from BT stating that they were sorry that they could not provide me with broadband and had no intention of doing so in the future as all funds had been allocated elsewhere. I forwarded this to my MP and silence followed......

I am in the same situation as Womble in that Community Broadband Scotland will not offer help until it has been officially stated that we are in an area not covered by the general rollout of broadband by BT.
Unfortunately no 3G signal here, in fact frequently no mobile signal.

Very happy for those who will get access to fast broadband but not all areas will have access to this and many rural areas will be disadvantaged. Yes I love living where I do but do not feel that poor or non existant broadband is acceptable. (grumble over ...for tonight)

[mab]

3.2mb according to that speed test website - better than I expected when I moved here as it's over 3 miles to the exchange and am literally the last on the line. But that is fast enough to stream video so I'm not complaining on that score - biggest issue it random dropouts when I have to unplug the router and plug it back in the reset - can happen 2 or 3 times in an evening.

[bazzais]

3/4 of a meg - although we hope to get fibre to door real soon - the cable has been swinging in the breeze for 9 months now outside the house.  Not sure why they thought tieing it up with insulation tape to the pole would work with the winds up here - its trodden into the field now.