C'mon people, lets get our act together, 200 people is not very hard to reach , we have a population of somewhere in the region of 10000, i aint 100% sure,

But c,mon

John :)

Im pretty sure there are 10,000 people in Kilsyth but ADSL costs £25-30 a month and thats out of alot of families price range. Also those lucky enough to have a web enable computer might not appreciate the benefits of using broadband and how much different it is compared to normal dialup. I dont treat the internet as a separate entity anymore coz it's always on my PC which is really great. I live in Leicester, England and I'm lucky enough to have both ADSL and NTL cable, i have the latter but my family [Lochrie] who stays in Kilsyth are not so lucky. If I knew that Kilsyth was getting broadband I'd think about moving there as I love the place despite all it's faults it has a certain charm about it. Mind you has that waterfall housing development started yet ??? it looks really nice.

We have 180 registrations now- only 20 to go - please help the campaign by emailing your Kilsyth friends and asking them to join up - we should be there within a week or two.

Rob

This broadband issue won't get anywhere if the target is the public in their homes. There are quite a few small and medium scale companies in kilsyth and they could benefit from broadband as a valuable resource. But the problem is, most of these companies don't know much about it. The key to getting broadband in Kilsyth is public awareness within the business community. Plenty have heard of it, but ask them what it is and can actually do and you might get a bit of a shock.

Since a week or so ago when the figure was at 194, we've just registered an interest under both our office and residential addresses, so that takes it up to at least 196. Hopefully we should now expect to have it installed before the turn of the year which would be great!

Just to provide a rough guide on the costs, you'll first need to pay BT for the installation of a new line which costs £99 + VAT. This is because broadband is connected 24/7 realtime. You can then either by the plug & play package and do the configuration yourself or pay BT to do this. If you're reasonably PC literate, go for the plug and play package because this is under £100 and saves you paying BT's labour costs. Monthly subscriptions vary from £25 - £30 per month providing you don't want ISP hosting which most people probably don't unless you're running your own server and not hosting elsewhere.

To summarise, set up can be done for around £200 for the extra line and the broadband package, then around £28 per month in subscription charges. Don't forget you will have to pay quarterly line rental on the 2nd line though !! Hope this is helpful ...........

Thanks

John (Kelvin Valley Properties)

A nice Christmas present from BT - they have agreed to enable the exchange, so now its just a question of waiting a few weeks. A great success for everyone who took the trouble to register - shows the benefit of consumer power.

BT will switch on Kilsyth for broadband on 21st March 2003.

Just to clear up a misconception that John stated earlier, you do not need a second line installed, ADSL operates off a single analogue telephone line. This is why it's ideally suited to residential users, as that's what 99% of people have in their homes.

Also, don't go direct to BT, there are plenty of smaller and cheaper ISPs out there offering a better service. See http://www.adslguide.org.uk/