Electron 1.0 is here

Re:Electron 1.0 is here by myrmi on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @05:18AM (#11673750)

I live in zone 2 in London, and the fastest broadband I can get is ~2Mbit. Even in major cities, good - or I would argue, even acceptable - broadband is not ubiquitous.

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Re:Electron 1.0 is here by marcosscriven on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @05:20AM (#11673756)

So do I (in fact, on the cusp of zone 3) - so I'm really curious why that's the fastest you can get?

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Re:Electron 1.0 is here by asherkin on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @06:28AM (#11674051)

Not the OP, but in the same situation until I moved: Close-ish to an exchange (so no street cabinet on the line for fibre equipment), no cable coverage (so Virgin is out), out of range of wherever the hell Relish's tower is, and ancient wiring in a block of flats (so can't reach sane ADSL speeds).

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Re:Electron 1.0 is here by cannam on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @06:42AM (#11674104)

I'm in the same position. BT recently declared that they might install fibre to my street some time in 2017 though, so that's quite exciting.

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Re:Electron 1.0 is here by banach2 on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:48AM (#11676367)

BT declared that they would install fibre to my street in London five years ago. That didn't happen.

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