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Welcome to the Failand website ADSL2+ is here The Long Ashton exchange, which Failand is on, has now been enabled for ADSL2+. However it may be some time before your ISP migrates your line to the new equipment. We have been given a migration date of 25 January 2012. If you have been migrated, please and tell us what sort of speed improvements you have seen. Apart from being emailed by your ISP, you will know you have been migrated if your router status displays Mode "ADSL2" instead of "G.DMT", the code for ADSL1. ADSL2+ provides speeds up to 24M dependent on distance from the exchange. Typically users can expect a ~50% increase in speed from ADSL Max, but at the distance of Failand from the exchange, improvement may be small. Your ADSL account is probably already "up to 20M". To actually get the higher speeds, you will need a ADSL2+ router. Older ADSL(1) routers will continue to work at the same speed. Your ISP probably has an information page on upgrade to ADSL2+, for example this is the one for Zen: FTTC The 21CN WBC upgrade above is a first step to Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) which provides speeds up to 40M dependent on distance from the street cabinet. We hope Long Ashton and Failand will get funding from the government scheme above to rollout FTTC. The Nailsea exchange is getting FTTC in March 2012. Broadband Demand Survey North Somerset Council has published the results of the Broadband Demand Survey: www.n-somerset.gov.uk/broadband Not much of use there but they say the data will be included in the evidence to companies tendering for the contract to deliver the new infrastructure. For more information on the Broadband Bid, visit the Connecting Devon and Somerset website www.failand.org.uk |
