So basically, if I haven't got cable now I never will have.
Trouble is we moved to "the country" and have gone from 10Mbps cable in our old house to 250Kbps telephone broadband in our new house. I am a geek at heart and the speed reduction kills me, the line is also only up 60% of the day as we are 7Km from the nearest exchange.
I think I am going to look at Vodafone 3G mobile broadband as there is a transmitter aerial 600m away.