Adsl speed variable dependant on location within town

[likwid]

I emigrated to Spain from Scotland four years ago and life is better here but for one thing, internet connectivity. I went from having 20mb cable connection to 1mb adsl. This might be acceptable but for the fact that neighbours a few streets away have 3mb. In this day of cloud computing etc. is incredibly constraining having such a slow connection, not to mention streaming video is a pain.

I hope that someone knowledgable in such matters might point me in the direction of why this is the case. Someone suggested it likely to be the local exchange is oversubscribed, if that is the case shouldn't the telecom invest in expansion?

 

[likwid]

Thanks both.

I'm suspicious because where we are they've added more streets from ocean reclaimed land; our once beach front home is now two streets away from the sea. I believe this may mean our exchange is over capacity and 3mb adsl is being shared between three homes. All neighbouring towns have 3mb adsl and there is a waiting list for even a telephone here; it took us 10 weeks.

We have a problem with there not being any service other than adsl here. You can switch company but it's still the monopoly telecom who provide the telephone lines. Let me say I hate Telefonica with a passion. As far as cable, we don't have it here but it's in the city and larger towns.

 

[likwid]

Thanks for the advice. I know that all our neighbours have the same speed so it's not caused by anything local.