- Location
- South east scotland
Its like a line of site thing. Not sure on what you would call it have a look on there web site. Will do a free site visit
Broadband advice please
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Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Will do, thanks
- Location
- South east scotland
Mention my name i might get a discount.?
- Location
- East Sussex
With fttc it's not always the copper to your property that causes the problem, ally wires are the work of the devil!
Are you paying these prices for the stated download / upload speeds, because that is expensive?
- Location
- South east scotland
No i get it for free as they have one of there base stations here i have internet in 3 propertys and in my workshop and cctv FOC
Ahh thats a result, if you had to pay for it it would be rather expensive looking at their costs..
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
A quick update: I finally got round to doing a proper speed test by cable with virtually everything else turned off. Used three websites and got results of 8, 12 and 23 mbps. This is roughly double what I got with my a check through wi-fi.
Logged on to my BT account and they are offering me a free upgrade to fibre for free (didn't get in touch to offer it, obviously!):
We’re currently moving all of our copper customers to fibre for free, so don’t miss your chance to secure your free upgrade today.
It means a two-year contract. They are also offering two free 'discs' to improve wi-fi coverage round the house. This would be great if it was full fttp (which is definitely available) but will it just be a half-arsed effort, linking to the cabinet in the village? Not pursued it yet but we want to keep the landline and this looks like a cheap easy way to upgrade?
Logged on to my BT account and they are offering me a free upgrade to fibre for free (didn't get in touch to offer it, obviously!):
We’re currently moving all of our copper customers to fibre for free, so don’t miss your chance to secure your free upgrade today.
It means a two-year contract. They are also offering two free 'discs' to improve wi-fi coverage round the house. This would be great if it was full fttp (which is definitely available) but will it just be a half-arsed effort, linking to the cabinet in the village? Not pursued it yet but we want to keep the landline and this looks like a cheap easy way to upgrade?
- Location
- South east scotland
Use ovh.net as a speed checker
Cowabunga
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- Location
- Ceredigion,Wales
For an example of why high speed broadband is needed, I'm in the process of downloading quite a large file at the moment and it has already taken three hours and has seven hours to go. No idea what size it is but it ain't small. The download has already failed twice while I'm not around the computer so it looks like it will take two whole days including the delays. If I already had super-fast or the 4G, which I have on order, it would be downloaded in one hour. ONE HOUR instead of TWO blinkety-blank DAYS [or ten hours if it didn't fail and need restarting].
EDIT
Now 12 noon. Last post was at 9.30am. Current status is 33% complete and needs an estimates 4 hours 30 minutes to complete. I think it was at 20% at 9.30am. It was restarted early this morning after failing to download overnight. It is currently downloading at 305KB/s
EDIT
Now 12 noon. Last post was at 9.30am. Current status is 33% complete and needs an estimates 4 hours 30 minutes to complete. I think it was at 20% at 9.30am. It was restarted early this morning after failing to download overnight. It is currently downloading at 305KB/s
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Pistonbroke
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Try not to shed tears for me...my house is in between the last house from two exchanges 8km from both. I had to put 800 m of cable in myself to get a landline so it's copper underground that can't be upgraded. Get mobile signal out side but not in the house so no 4g,and the hill in front goes from 300 ft straight up to 1250 so can't see the satellite. BT did some work upgrading the line so I get a maximum of...... 1mb. ?
- Location
- Northumberland
Have a look at this thread @hally had a similar situation. Put a 4g receiver up the hill & cabled it back to the house
thefarmingforum.co.uk
4G broadband
Here are some interesting details of the availability of an alternative to slow landlines where a mobile signal may be viable, even if a group shared a small aerial above a valley of dwellings perhaps.
thefarmingforum.co.uk
- Location
- East Sussex
realistically tha not actually too bad. Would be worth spending some money on some kind of mesh wifi. The units talk and hand off to each other as you move around the house so no changing network or dead moments while you snap to a different wifi unit. We have ubiquiti units. Installed a year or two ago and haven't been off or reset since.
- Location
- Northumberland
The free discs BT mention are effectivly a mesh system. Work really well. They will give you max 3 if you grumble about your wifi.
2 of ours are in the same building so can "see" each other so only need a power supply, 3rd is in another building on the end of 80m cat5e.
Pistonbroke
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I am no expert,but even as low as ours is,it always works. Two kids watching YouTube separately and I can still use my phone for browsing. The thing that struggles is the laptop if anything else is being usedHave a look at this thread @hally had a similar situation. Put a 4g receiver up the hill & cabled it back to the house
4G broadband
Here are some interesting details of the availability of an alternative to slow landlines where a mobile signal may be viable, even if a group shared a small aerial above a valley of dwellings perhaps.
- Location
- East Sussex
they are really good but I have experience of them not being compatible with a 4g modem. Proper pain in the arris actually!
- Location
- Northumberland
Didn`t know that. They must have them "locked" to a BT signal.
- Location
- East Sussex
they did work. It was at the in-laws house in Spain. If you switched each one on in the correct order it worked well but if one got switched off then it would all go to pot. Our mobile man even went out for a jolly to try and fix it but he couldn’t so sent something else out. The problem was that when they came home everything was switched off and they could never get them to work when they went back out. It was a huawei modem
- Location
- Northumberland
Just talking to the lad that works for us who has EE 4G mobile broadband as his house service.
He rang EE last week looking for a better deal ( It`s his speciality ). They offered unlimited data for £25 / a month, less 10% discount as he has EE mobiles. The small print says if usage is over 1000 gb/ month they reserve the right to limit usage.
Been on it 5 days, running at 60mbs
He tried the "3" unlimited contract but found the speed was throttled at peak times
That looks a bargain to me
Before we got FTTP we were on EE , 500gb month for £65
He rang EE last week looking for a better deal ( It`s his speciality ). They offered unlimited data for £25 / a month, less 10% discount as he has EE mobiles. The small print says if usage is over 1000 gb/ month they reserve the right to limit usage.
Been on it 5 days, running at 60mbs
He tried the "3" unlimited contract but found the speed was throttled at peak times
That looks a bargain to me
Before we got FTTP we were on EE , 500gb month for £65
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
I've gone with the free fibre upgrade with BT. They're talking about 25mbps which would do me.