Curious UK resident<p>Does the College itself get a government&#x2F;academic feed or do academic institutions have to rely on local commercial providers?<p>UK has janet and UKERNA.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jisc.ac.uk&#x2F;network" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jisc.ac.uk&#x2F;network</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;icannwiki.com&#x2F;UKERNA" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;icannwiki.com&#x2F;UKERNA</a><p>To overcome the limitations of our domestic ADSL (6 km from exchange over solid aluminium wire voice circuit) I sometimes run queries over an RDP session to my College PC.