Line of site broadband / mobile signal booster

[Doing it for the kids]

same old story, both are pants yet fibre is at plenty of locations locally.

The technology exists to beam decent speed internet from a nearby location with decent speeds to the village. We could then receive this and convert to decent broadband and hopefully a localised mobile booster for improved mobile reception.

My trouble is finding someone who can do this....

Vodafone don't understand and all the usual fibre people keep asking about trenching cables which isn't going to work so well.

Others have done this, any help welcome!

Location is Oxfordshire, foothills of the Chiltons

 

[sleepy]

same old story, both are pants yet fibre is at plenty of locations locally.

The technology exists to beam decent speed internet from a nearby location with decent speeds to the village. We could then receive this and convert to decent broadband and hopefully a localised mobile booster for improved mobile reception.

My trouble is finding someone who can do this....

Vodafone don't understand and all the usual fibre people keep asking about trenching cables which isn't going to work so well.

Others have done this, any help welcome!

Location is Oxfordshire, foothills of the Chiltons

We've helped people do it before, the actual wireless is trivial.

Do you have a friendly neighbour where you can get fttc and line of sight back to your place? BT will install broadband into corner of field etc but you need power.

 

[Boysground]

If I remember correctly @Brisel may have a system in one of the villages near him.

Sorry both if i am wrong

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[sleepy]

If I remember correctly @Brisel may have a system in one of the villages near him.

Sorry both if i am wrong

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There are lot of wireless ISPs but they are all gradually going bust as BT continues their roll out.

 

[Pan mixer]

We have a company here called County Broadband, they won't operate in your area, but similar companies will. We have a microwave link that comes to any house that subscribes and, if your house is used to 'bounce signal' to other houses you can get free internet, (like me ) It cost a lot to set up in the first place - we did 5 villages for £75k but we used some donated money from a large construction project - there may be local council grants, S106 monies or whatever they call them now to help.

Talk to a local District or Borough Councillor.

 

[Doing it for the kids]

We are a long way from the cabinet, so not hoping anytime soon.

I need to somehow work out what we can see from the farm that has high speeds and then go and butter them up.

What I need is a map with internet speeds in different colours! How far can one beam said beam?

 

[Doing it for the kids]

We have a company here called County Broadband, they won't operate in your area, but similar companies will. We have a microwave link that comes to any house that subscribes and, if your house is used to 'bounce signal' to other houses you can get free internet, (like me ) It cost a lot to set up in the first place - we did 5 villages for £75k but we used some donated money from a large construction project - there may be local council grants, S106 monies or whatever they call them now to help.

Talk to a local District or Borough Councillor.

Thanks. Out trouble is the village currently has a church and only a handful of houses, all under one ownership (except one) so we have no clout or anyone else to spread the costs with other than an office conversion.

 

[sleepy]

We are a long way from the cabinet, so not hoping anytime soon.

I need to somehow work out what we can see from the farm that has high speeds and then go and butter them up.

What I need is a map with internet speeds in different colours! How far can one beam said beam?

Just put the properties into a broadband checker and see how long the line is. Shorter the better.

 

[Pan mixer]

Thanks. Out trouble is the village currently has a church and only a handful of houses, all under one ownership (except one) so we have no clout or anyone else to spread the costs with other than an office conversion.

The Church will probably allow an aerial on it - national policy I believe, get a quote, ask the neighbours, someone may surprise you with what they would pay.

We had one quiet chap who confessed to having had 4 bonded phone lines to get enough bt broadband to enable him to do his job, he bit our arms off when we asked around.

We were mystified why he needed so much broadband he confessed to being the backup for traffic light control in most of London!

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Which properties do you mean? Ones that can be seen from the farm?

 

[Boysground]

There are lot of wireless ISPs but they are all gradually going bust as BT continues their roll out.

Was told recently where a village was all ready to go with a new system and then Openreach came and plugged them in. Luckily no infrastructure had been installed.

BG

 

[Doing it for the kids]

The Church will probably allow an aerial on it - national policy I believe, get a quote, ask the neighbours, someone may surprise you with what they would pay.

We had one quiet chap who confessed to having had 4 bonded phone lines to get enough bt broadband to enable him to do his job, he bit our arms off when we asked around.

We were mystified why he needed so much broadband he confessed to being the backup for traffic light control in most of London!

I am confused, we are the neighbours. Nearest house with any hope of faster speeds would be several miles away. Our buildings are taller than the church.

I think I need to get the scope out and have a gander at what I can see. Can you not get arrested for this sort of behaviour!?

 

[Pan mixer]

Can you not get arrested for this sort of behaviour!?

Only if they see you doing it.

 

[Jungle Bill]

Solwise.co.uk have all the equipment you would need. They also have a useful line of sight checker on the wifi page.
http://www.marykirk.com has a video showing how they did it - if you understand the Doric.

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Only if they see you doing it.

 

[Courier]

Just been on the phone to my OH who has set up our new home in The Waikato.

Download 21 mps, upload 11.2 mps. This in a country the physical size of England & Wales with a smaller population than Yorkshire.

Here in Yorkshire, where I can see an illuminated Tesco and Co-oP Store signs from the kitchen window I get 6.3 mps & 2.4 mps.

And I just had a quote from Toople for a "free" separate office line of "between £20k and £30k"

 

[Brisel]

If I remember correctly @Brisel may have a system in one of the villages near him.

Sorry both if i am wrong

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Thanks for the tag.

Here are a couple of examples of microwave broadband providers

https://www.wessexinternet.com/about/
https://wispire.co.uk/business/business-broadband/

Sleepy is right in that the roll out of fibre-to-cabinet by BT is bad news for many wireless internet service providers (WISP). The more remote properties furthest from the exchange are best off looking at this. Most are priced competitively to BT so they won't just disappear.

We are a long way from the cabinet, so not hoping anytime soon.

I need to somehow work out what we can see from the farm that has high speeds and then go and butter them up.

What I need is a map with internet speeds in different colours! How far can one beam said beam?

The beam can travel for 22km without loss of bandwidth before needing to be picked up and sent on. It does need to be line of sight.

I did a quick Google search for you, coming up with this;

http://wurzelweb.com/oxfordshire-broadband/
http://www.countrysidebroadband.co.uk/

 

[TripleSix]

We have a community broadband project locally to my work, the speeds are ok.

Still better than rural copper cable speeds I suppose.

http://www.clannet.co.uk/

 

[Courier]

If you are in these folk's area they might be a practical solution..

hhttp://jibbajabba.uk.com/business/broadband/wireless/index.html

 

[Nearly]

We have a community broadband project locally to my work, the speeds are ok.

Still better than rural copper cable speeds I suppose.

http://www.clannet.co.uk/

Shhhh. Don't tell everyone.

Ours comes from someone elses house, 3 miles away.
I use the same transmitters for joining my house to cameras in barn 100m away.

£25 a month for 20 meg.covers our 3 houses.
I can't see bt getting here for another 10 years. We've sacked them and have no landline now.

Good luck