BT Openreach engineers have discovered a wiring fault in a telephone cable junction in Horsington.
The fault was discovered in response to residents on the Marsh complaining about their terrible broadband speed. It seems a bad connection caused the cable voltage to go to ground, resulting in a serious deterioration in speed.
The fault is being corrected as we write this, Residents down Batchpool Lane, and on Horsington Marsh can expect the service to improve over the next few days, as the broadband servers react to the improved conductivity of the carrier wires.
Your editor’s speed is now a massive 2.7Mbps, up from a derisory 1.2 Mbps. Readers from more civilised areas can be forgiven for laughing, but that’s what we have to live with here.