Michael Sage wrote:

Try doing an ADSL check on your line, lets see if we can get a couple more exchanges in "rural" England enabled!

Could you expand on that a little, Michael? I infer from it that somehow it's possible for the ordinary man in the street to influence the provision of ADSL in a particular area; if that's true, I'd like to know how. I've more or less given up on the idea of ever seeing ADSL available in a one-eyed comatose place like this (Martlesham Heath)... Cheers, Gerald.