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[upnortheast]

Had a look at your county council digital connectivity web site & it is similar to the Northumberland one. which funded the kit mentioned above. Suggest you phone them & see if they have anything helpfull to say

 

[upnortheast]

BT can attach me to a fibre connection at the cost of £3500 to the government, for which I would pay £45 a month for 10meg. A con. They put the poles up last year ready for the cable, but then just went away...

That's crap. After 5 years on 4g broadband BT, after much pushing from the council, came down our road with fibre. ( 24 properties in all ) We now have fttp. 300 meg for £45 a month. Not dear as we can run 2 houses & 2 offices on the one connection. The phones work through the fibre now so also done away with 3 copper lines. Can you get your parish council to lobby for you. Ours were instamental in getting our scheme moving.

 

[steveR]

I am in Ceredigion. There seems to be a scheme which if you sign up, and enough of your neighbours sign up, the council will let private companies know so they can target an area. The main one locally say they cannot "see" me, and anyway it is £40 a month...(and their website has been down for a week, not a good sign!) BT can attach me to a fibre connection at the cost of £3500 to the government, for which I would pay £45 a month for 10meg. A con. They put the poles up last year ready for the cable, but then just went away...

Gotta love Open Reach....

 

[colhonk]

Srange happenings, no sign of any engineers here, phoned Daisy 30 mins ago to say I still have no usable internet, when are they going to fix it, I not quick, they can stuff their line, suddenly now up to 4 meg after five days at 0.16 or less.
My daughter says with EE 4g the latency will be too bad for her to do her teaching live on line . Anyone able to say if this is so ?

 

[Old Boar]

Thanks for the smile, @upnortheast - saying the word "broadband" to the local council would be to watch their eyes glaze over...

 

[Renaultman]

We use a P2P rural system supplied by quickline. quickline.co.uk
There are other providers

 

[upnortheast]

My daughter says with EE 4g the latency will be too bad for her to do her teaching live on line .

With a decent 4G signal providing your service there will be far less problems than a crap landline service.
Now if you want latency problems look at satalite BB

 

[J B]

We use a P2P rural system supplied by quickline. quickline.co.uk
There are other providers

We use Airband

Home - Black Friday 2023

Home - Black Friday 2023

www.airband.co.uk

 

[Cowabunga]

Provider says I have 5 m download at router. my computer says 0.13 down and 0.55 up. put new router,wire, and a laptop straight from the openreach wall box, It also says 0.13. any Ideas, supposed to be an engineer from openreach to look at line,Look out there`s a` flying pig`.
Anyone using EE 4gee for broadband, any good?

I was on 2.5 mbps down and 0.8 up on a good day with BT
Gone 4G on EE now for about six weeks and to begin with it varied a lot, often down to as slow as BT. There was something wrong with their local mast, because signal is very strong. For the last three or four weeks it has been great though. Still variable but at a far higher level. This morning at 9.00am it was at a very respectable 54 down and 23.5 upload. In the last ten days, looking at the history, it has been down to 8mbps only twice but the upload was 12.5 and 25 at the same time.

On average I'm getting between 25 and 35mbps download and 15 to 18 upload I'd say from looking at my speed test history.

Overall it is a truly massive improvement over BT copper landline broadband, if you could even call it that.

 

[Cowabunga]

After the 5th Openreach engineer failed to find the fault that is causing my broadband to be below 0.1mg, he told me about getting a dongle and running 3, and he checked and he said I should get around 5mg which would be really lovely. He lives a couple of miles from me, higher up, and gets 17mg, for which he said he paid £11 a month.
I checked 3 website and it says I cannot get a signal, but all their plans were a lot more than £11! So I sort of gave up, as loading a website takes minutes...

So would some kind person explain to me how it all works? I gather I get a dongle, stick it somewhere or other and I get broadband. Only I would not in the house. So can I stick something outside and wire it in? Is that expensive and what is it called?

What happens to the land line? I would like to keep it as there is very little mobile signal around here, although I presume any mobile could wifi a signal. My current phone (8 years old and fully working) does not do 4G, so presumably I would have to buy a new phone. So with the costs of a new phone, paying for the landline and the dongle and the equipment outside, is it worth it? Or have I got it wrong?

Right, going for a lie down as all that hurt the little grey cells!

Get in touch with Dyfed Telecom at Carmarthen or another service provider and see if you are eligible for the grant that gets it installed for free. They will come out and test your signal at above chimney height to see what service you will get, if any, and if suitable, will install an aerial that looks like a small satellite dish to get the best signal possible.

In the house and as long as your phone supports wi-fi calling, you will get much improved mobile reception and you can cancel your current broadband contract to offset the 4G contract. Some people even cancel their land lines altogether these days.

There is a slight possibility that you won't be able to get a 4G signal where you are of course

 

[Ukjay]

Srange happenings, no sign of any engineers here, phoned Daisy 30 mins ago to say I still have no usable internet, when are they going to fix it, I not quick, they can stuff their line, suddenly now up to 4 meg after five days at 0.16 or less.
My daughter says with EE 4g the latency will be too bad for her to do her teaching live on line . Anyone able to say if this is so ?

I think you will find that EE is good to do zoom etc, wife is caning the internet with zoom etc for work - and not had any issues whatsoever

Just ran the speed test to see what we are currently getting, and still working far better than anything a company could provide us locally:

Obviously will depend on your location etc and gear used, but neighbours have copied us and are also well pleased with their results.

 

[Cowabunga]

BT or Openreach's contractors have installed fibre cable to posts near premises at the top of my lane about four years ago and the area is meant to have fibre to the premises. However they went away, no doubt after ticking some government target box on their system and have not been back.
My daughter, who lives at the far side of the village can apparently now get connected, although the near side can't. So she signed up for fibre about a month ago and when the date came for connection, nobody from Openreach turned up. After making an enquiry they apparently need to get traffic lights and do some engineering work. She still isn't connected and BT have provided her with a landline modem to keep her going as she cancelled her previous EE landline contract and she and her partner work from home nowadays.

 

[upnortheast]

My daughter says with EE 4g the latency will be too bad for her to do her teaching live on line . Anyone able to say if this is so ?

Here is a screen shot of a speed test when we were on EE 4G broadband.
Nothing wrong with that ping (latency )

 

[Cowabunga]

I always use Ookla speed test and it is also the one used by the professional installers I use. My ping always lies between 35 and 50, no matter what server location is chosen.
I can video conference with no noticeable lag. It just works.
Here is a screenshot of recent speed tests [and some dry cows]. There is a slow one with 2.5 or so download, in the list somewhere,
but that is with using the BT landline

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[upnortheast]

Just more on latency, @colhonk
A quick google suggests the on line gamers are quite happy with anything under 100.
So the EE mobile broadband ping numbers quoted above will not cause your daughter any issues

 

[colhonk]

The Openreach engineer came out yesterday, remember my speed was 4mb since I complained again on Monday night, It is now back down to 0.2mb since he left.
Phoned Daisy this morning, `Due to the length of my line from the exchange,that is the best I will Get` ??. Who are these people they employ on switchboards?
Can see the EE mast from my kitchen window so will have to call them to see what deals they can do.

 

[Ukjay]

The Openreach engineer came out yesterday, remember my speed was 4mb since I complained again on Monday night, It is now back down to 0.2mb since he left.
Phoned Daisy this morning, `Due to the length of my line from the exchange,that is the best I will Get` ??. Who are these people they employ on switchboards?
Can see the EE mast from my kitchen window so will have to call them to see what deals they can do.

Don't call EE, just do it yourself. It really is simple, especially if you can see the mast

 

[upnortheast]

Don't call EE, just do it yourself. It really is simple, especially if you can see the mast

Errrr. You will need to speak to someone about a data SIM card.
Sounds good if you can see the mast, should not need an external antenna. Best results if the router has clear sight of the mast. As @Ukjay says, set up is simple, just replace your landline router with a 4g one. EE will provide a (basic ) router with a contract. Are you sure it is an EE mast.

 

[Cowabunga]

Errrr. You will need to speak to someone about a data SIM card.
Sounds good if you can see the mast, should not need an external antenna. Best results if the router has clear sight of the mast. As @Ukjay says, set up is simple, just replace your landline router with a 4g one. EE will provide a (basic ) router with a contract. Are you sure it is an EE mast.

I wouldn't hesitate to dump BT. With EE this morning I got 68mbps but tonight only 20. So EE is more variable than a landline for me but variable on a whole different, faster, zone altogether. I'm 5 miles from the mast, Cardigan Bay.

In Colhonk's case all he probably needs is a dongle in the window. If he has BT business broadband he probably has a BT dongle free with his router anyhow which works through the EE system. With a domestic BT router and contract, maybe not. In my case I have it but it is of no use whatsoever in the house because the mobile signal is almost non-existent.

 

[upnortheast]

He said his supplier was Daisy ?