that telecom offered me dial-up as a solution.

When we first joined up to Jet Stream at this address 6 years ago, we got 3.3Mbit download. By 2 years ago, that was down to 2.2Mbit. In the last 12 months, that has become a very flaky 128Kbit. Cable is only 50 Meters away, I'll dig the trench myself!</rant>