Line of site broadband / mobile signal booster

[Pan mixer]

Even if the fibre shows up in a cabinet, people more than a few hundred metres from the cabinet will end up with lower speeds than dial-up, I have been informed.

We are a mere 7 km from the exchange/nearest cabinet, we get (I kept bt for a laugh) 0.2upload and 0.1 download if no-one else in the village is online.

 

[sleepy]

Even if the fibre shows up in a cabinet, people more than a few hundred metres from the cabinet will end up with lower speeds than dial-up, I have been informed.

We are a mere 7 km from the exchange/nearest cabinet, we get (I kept bt for a laugh) 0.2upload and 0.1 download if no-one else in the village is online.

You have been informed badly.

 

[Socksitis]

What a fiasco all of this is - the microwave signal is blocked by trees, the Parish is all up through a wooded valley with trees. Have a grey area supposedly supplied by BT - but never in a month of Sundays are they likely to deliver, 3miles from the cabinet - no hope, 1.43Mbps usual speed, then we have another company awarded a contract to supply us 'difficult' places - but the trees are taller than their desktop plan indicated.

If we could kick them both in to touch, we could apply for the voucher scheme and get the job sorted ourselves. I have been sent a link to a site indicating the possibility of fibre via electric cables?

But these other companies are now blocking progress. ggrrrr

 

[Barleycorn]

Don't want to hijack the thread, but there seems to be plenty of experts on here!
A large supermarket chain has the local 'big house' as a private hotel and conference centre. They are in the process of installing fast broadband, and BT are bringing a fibre optic line 2 miles up through the village. Apparently they are spending many thousands of pounds doing this, but haven't offered it to anyone in the village, and I am told that the 'strengh' of the signal provided could power many connections with out losing strength.
We have just had this connection put on the pole outside the farm'



This looks like a connection spot? I am just wondering what terms BT put it in under. If they paid for it would it be a totally private connection, or do you think that BT may let others connect in the future?
I must say it seems strange not to have offered it to the village as it went through, would have probably made their connection a lot cheaper.

 

[Brisel]

@Socksitis Have you got a hilltop site that you could bounce the signal via a repeater? A building with mains is best but a telegraph pole <15' tall (no planning permisssion required unless in a AONB) with a solar panel & battery to power it would be enough.

Here's what I have in the office courtesy of the WISP owned by the estate I work for. It should be 10 mbps down & 1 mbps up but this is fine for what I need. £44/month gets me 3 VOIP lines plus unlimited broadband. The basic broadband is £15.99/month.

At home I have BT Infinity thanks to them brinigng forward the FTC roll out by 5 years (having lost lost of customers to us) so I'll post up a speed test from that later.

 

[Socksitis]

hilltop site in the National Park! I think there is a chance we could bounce the signal off another hilltop outside of the National Park - but once again, we could do this if we could get our paws on the voucher scheme and they let the locals solve the problem.

 

[Brisel]

What is the voucher scheme? We did ours privately without any grant aid, as did Wessex, WiSpire etc.

 

[Socksitis]

https://www.connectingdevonandsomerset.co.uk/cds-broadband-voucher-scheme/

this was, as I understand it, part of the government incentive to get broadband across the country to an acceptable level. I think different parts of the country had different timescales for the scheme - as per usual, hoops to jump through - often not feasible.

 

[Socksitis]

https://www.connectingdevonandsomerset.co.uk/cds-voucher-provider-list/

whole list of providers - if only you can get your paws on the vouchers.....

 

[Purli R]

http://www.boundlessnetworks.co.uk/ Try this,we are probably more miles from anywhere than most on here,small unobtrusive reciever dish,were in nat park,dont bother about them. Line of sight comes 4miles,new ones can do 20 miles apparently .22download 11upload

 

[Pasty]

https://www.connectingdevonandsomerset.co.uk/cds-broadband-voucher-scheme/

this was, as I understand it, part of the government incentive to get broadband across the country to an acceptable level. I think different parts of the country had different timescales for the scheme - as per usual, hoops to jump through - often not feasible.

Plus you could be in 'commercial area' which much of our parish is. That means it's connected to an FTTC cabinet. Yey, all sorted. Except the cab is 5km or more away and fibre won't work and BT just say shrug and CDS don't want to know as we are 'sorted'.

If anyone has an EE 4G signal by the way, keep an eye on the news for the next few months. That is all.

 

[Boysground]

Plus you could be in 'commercial area' which much of our parish is. That means it's connected to an FTTC cabinet. Yey, all sorted. Except the cab is 5km or more away and fibre won't work and BT just say shrug and CDS don't want to know as we are 'sorted'.

If anyone has an EE 4G signal by the way, keep an eye on the news for the next few months. That is all.

Am I going to like the EE news?

I suspect not

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[Derrick Hughes]

As my revenge of the satelite i will continue to advise that they are a rip of and usless

 

[Pasty]

Am I going to like the EE news?

I suspect not

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Nudge is as good as a wink to a blind bat so I hear. You an't seen me, roight?

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Thanks everyone. Turns out no one has done it yet in the immediate area that I can find so I am off door knocking in due course!

Costs appears to be much less than I thought it would.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

Plus you could be in 'commercial area' which much of our parish is. That means it's connected to an FTTC cabinet. Yey, all sorted. Except the cab is 5km or more away and fibre won't work and BT just say shrug and CDS don't want to know as we are 'sorted'.

If anyone has an EE 4G signal by the way, keep an eye on the news for the next few months. That is all.

Re EE, so what have your mates in the city been saying? Is the new owner going to do something not nice with the service. Let me guess the existing EE 4G service is too threatening to their precious fibre rollout, so their cancelling the whole thing

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Does anyone know if this line of site concept is affected by the weather - fog etc? I can't believe it would be but a tenant has just told me that they were advised that it could

 

[Brisel]

We haven't seen it so far even with some pea soup fog but that has been on shorter hauls of less than 1 km. I'll ask the question for you anyway.

 

[Philip Watkins]

I'm on line of sight broad band (from www.airband.co) 9.8 km from the repeater mast. Can't say that I've noticed the weather have any effect other than the odd thunderstorm knocking out the transmitter.

 

[Farma Parma]

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5788674932
Current Speed here via a Hi Speed Extended Wifi link basically.
Iam the 2nd place in the chain & it all ends up at a 3rd place.
Distance isnt the issue its just having nothing in the signals path that is..
5ghz Radio Links to each place.
Each one gets the same speeds.
Paid for completely by Gov Voucher Scheme & i only get access to it coz they needed me for line of site reasons to get the 3rd place.
What a fluke...
BT landline no use what soever for any kind of BB so ive not dumped that & use a VOIP internet service telephone at 1/3 of the monthly running costs BT was at. Plus NO MONTHLY LINE RENTAL & ive still got my old BT local Number.
We do have decent mobile signal all around the area aswell & 3G/4G on some networks.