If you’re looking for a new home and the wife is busy working out if the local schools are good, if the shape and sizes of the house suits and your thinking “screw all that will I be able to get fast broadband access” then I have found the site for you. Sam Knows is a site I used for some time but I never noticed it had a Broadband Map of the UK. But not only that the Broadband Mapping is set up on Google Maps so what you actually get is a rather cool way to work out if your house will approximately work with what speeds of broadband and if you can get access to Cable Broadband also.
Check out the Broadband Mapping on Sam Knows.
Not to sure how accurate it is, as it says you can’t get ADSL2+ on my home address but i’ve got it and get about a 12MB download speed plus at my office it rates us as getting a 4.5MB and we are lucky if we get 1MB
@Adam it got my home location OK, not spot on like but good enough. Another site to check that Seb the owner of ThinkBroadband runs is also worth a look http://www.broadband-notspot.org.uk/
That exchange search is really useful. It shows that some of the rural exchanges don’t stand a chance of getting high speed broadband as it’s just not worth putting it in. 300 properties on one I looked up and as it’s a high percentage of holiday homes there there will be very few full time broadband accounts there.
The idea of opening up high speed broadband to the countryside just isn’t economical.