So, I’m now signed up with BE for their ADSL2+ service. Although it can go up to 24Mbps down and 1.5Mbps up, I’m currently getting 7Mbps down and 1Mbps up.

This isn’t too shabby considering that a friend who lives another 100m further down the road is right on the verge of 2Mbps "normal" ADSL.

All in all, service is good so far, everything was working to schedule (in fact earlier than promised); so if you fancy signing up and want a month’s free BE service, contact me (you can do that via the comments) and I’ll send you the relevant refer-a-friend email address to add to your order.