Alternative internet access?!?!

[buggerit]

We tried satellite bb but it was a disaster if you try to watch YouTube / iPlayer, they are soon throttling you and trying to charge you more

 

[JNP]

I would be looking at the unlimited package so that shouldn't be an issue?!!?

 

[Scholar]

With Satellite the speeds are good, up to 8 Mbs however download limits can be a problem. Very costly for high end packages but for us its our only way to have Broadband access.

 

[Fran Loake]

and glad of it after the amount of time spent sorting this last week !!

liveing near lots of people has some upsides I guess

We can even get 4g in one corner of our yard now - that makes our BB seem slow - saw 70mb on speed test there to my phone !!

Clive, is this with a microwave dish pointing at a neighbour? I'm curious as to how to acheive this. We can see Milton Keynes from the top of the house but have a shite landline connection and would be veryinterested in something quicker. I've googled 'community broadband' (if that is what you have done) but don't seem to get too far in this area.
Am I missing something? Help appreciated. Thanks
Fran

 

[Clive]

Clive, is this with a microwave dish pointing at a neighbour? I'm curious as to how to acheive this. We can see Milton Keynes from the top of the house but have a shite landline connection and would be veryinterested in something quicker. I've googled 'community broadband' (if that is what you have done) but don't seem to get too far in this area.
Am I missing something? Help appreciated. Thanks
Fran

it's just BT infinity - we got it in our village 6 months ago

 

[sleepy]

Clive, is this with a microwave dish pointing at a neighbour? I'm curious as to how to acheive this. We can see Milton Keynes from the top of the house but have a shite landline connection and would be veryinterested in something quicker. I've googled 'community broadband' (if that is what you have done) but don't seem to get too far in this area.
Am I missing something? Help appreciated. Thanks
Fran

We get about 15 meg down off crappy BT lines,

3 lines all joined together so they behave like one line.

http://aaisp.net/broadband-office1.html

Not cheap but worth it depending on how important internet access is to your business (or if you can share it with a few neighbours)

 

[Andy26]

To get fibre optic, do Bt have to replace all the telephone wires to every house? Or do they just link the exchanges?

They are laying fibre optic cables in the road side past the farm at present, but I assume are just linking the exchanges?

 

[Fran Loake]

Thanks chaps, I think our exchange has bt infinity but sadly we can't/don't benefit because of the distance we are from the exchange and the quality of the line across the fields - the last BT engineer out here suggested that I ought to buy a big roll of cable and replace all the cross field cable myself... Thanks mate, can you do my job while I'm at yours then...

Joining lines is an option, but double mega shite is still only plain shite???

I spoke to a closeish neighbour (half mile away) who is intent on getting fibre to his group of houses so maybe I could extend that to here?? although I have also heard that fibre didn't work for someone recently.

Urgh. Oh for an easy answer

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2535256082.png

 

[Clive]

To get fibre optic, do Bt have to replace all the telephone wires to very house? Or do they just link the exchanges?

They are laying fibre optic cables in the road side past the farm at present, but I assume are just linking the exchanges?

just to the exchanges - it's copper from there to my house but I still get the speed above

 

[Stoxs]

wow just done a speed test and made 1.9mb/s best i have doen for ages at this address.
ohh for the joys of 20mb/s or even 10mb/s

 

[Andy26]

These links may be of help to see when you're likely to get fibre optic broadband:

http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/

http://www.fibremap.bt.com/

 

[JNP]

oh dear, doesn't look good here.

 

[B&B Pig Man]

oh dear, doesn't look good here.

View attachment 591

Similar looking map here!

Is it worth waiting for 4g maybe?

 

[snowfire]

maybe @Gator should read this thread!!!
just saying

 

[JP1]

Wifi hotspot for @Gator

 

[Y Fan Wen]

To get fibre optic, do Bt have to replace all the telephone wires to every house? Or do they just link the exchanges?

They are laying fibre optic cables in the road side past the farm at present, but I assume are just linking the exchanges?

Little one lives out in the sticks but has fibre passing his house. Last week he joined the select group of FTTP!
He got his MP involved in his fight with BT/OR and it seems to have worked.
If you have seen green boxes being fitted on telephone poles about the place, those are micro substitutes for the cabinets being installed all over the country, and will be where most of us will get our FTTC from.
Personally I will have to wait and see if OR decide to string fibre up the cwm. I'm not holding my breath.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Are there many out there with FTTP?