PPp I found this link on the Stuff site http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/73...o\\... . So here i am in Franklin struggling to get 2Mbps, too slow to get to get You Tube, Somehow this sounds a lot like a lot of stuff going on in N.Z. or am I too self centered???? In Wyndham I got a maximum of 1Mbps. I could look at Youtube clips. Son lives in Franklin, they don't have a problem with their broadband speed. Even if you are getting 2Mbps, what's the problem? I lived on less for years, and there were a whole lot of people who if they couldn't get Satelitte, had to use dialup. Re: A bit of a whinge I'm sure if you offer to pay the tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars it would cost to lay fibre to your house they would let you in on the plan too. It's simply not economical for companies to outlay half a million dollars to provide fibre to 5 houses at $100 each. Re: A bit of a whinge Lots of suburbs in Chch already have fibre to the gate, doesn't cost much to light it up and get it to the house including tv and phone all on the connection. It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche Re: