Broadband? More like 'Lifeline'...

I know I am not alone in occasionally working from home - particularly when snow brings the whole of the United Kingdom to a standstill.  But what happens then when your broadband stops working? Or even worse, works intermittently. 

Worse? 

Why?

Because if it doesn't work at all, you stop trying to connect and get on with off-line work. But if you think it's only a temporary glitch, as I thought yesterday, you persist in trying to do work online. But then spend 3 times as long in doing it.

What the government needs to do (and I mean this only semi-facetiously) is decree that broadband is  public good, just as water, electricity and gas should be. And that constant minimum standards must be set... so if you go below 1MB per second, you get a refund. 

What's the solution?  A wireless network capable of multiple simultaneous 50MB download speeds (wireless - since they can't dig up every road in the country to put fibreoptic cable down).