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[Cowabunga]

He said his supplier was Daisy ?

Daisy Maisy or Mary, who cares? It's Openreach who services the landline through BT lines.

 

[J B]

Daisy Maisy or Mary, who cares? It's Openreach who services the landline through BT lines.

That's the crux of it - after several visits from our local OR guy (whose mother used to pick potatoes on many local farms!) he suggested I try a different method of internet by looking a the 'keep Shropshire connected' (?) website ... hence the fact that we now use Airband

 

[Ukjay]

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.

Sorry but you don't need to talk to anyone.
I simply went on line and ordered data sim from website, then I purchased all other equipment away from EE as their gear was not what I wanted.

 

[upnortheast]

Ok know what you mean but I've found EE have better offers if you phone them to what is on the website.You are right about the routers they send, very basic. Depends on your requirements.

 

[upnortheast]

If you have your own "unlocked " router then you can try PAYG sims from different network to see which gives best signal before you go for a contract.
Something like this would do the job,

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[colhonk]

OOOPs, went and gone and done it. Have just phoned EE for a deal, no movement on deal on 4gee but got my wife`s payg onto a monthly simm cheap deal on same bill which is partly what I wanted. Unfortunately, my phone contract still has too long to go or I would have got a simm only deal for it aswell. Of course, now I have taken the plunge,they are out of stock of the router 2 thingys so will be end of next week to get set up.

 

[upnortheast]

Interested to know how you get on.

 

[colhonk]

Think I will need to have a Fire extinguisher on hand in case the wires melt.
Land line speed this morning O.15download.
New 4gee 62.1

 

[upnortheast]

Think I will need to have a Fire extinguisher on had in case the wires melt.
Land line speed this morning O.15download.
New 4gee 62.1

Good result

 

[Cowabunga]

Daughter finally got fibre to the premises by BT today. 75mbps download and 22up, which is pretty much what my 4G on EE was doing earlier on as well, but 4G fell to 50/22 later on, which is still really good.

I doubt whether FTTP will vary as much in speed as 4G does from hour to hour, so if I had the choice I would certainly have FTTPremises. Most farmers don't get that choice of course and are unlikely to, ever. Thank goodness that adequate alternatives are now available.

 

[sjt01]

Daughter finally got fibre to the premises by BT today. 75mbps download and 22up, which is pretty much what my 4G on EE was doing earlier on as well, but 4G fell to 50/22 later on, which is still really good.

I doubt whether FTTP will vary as much in speed as 4G does from hour to hour, so if I had the choice I would certainly have FTTPremises. Most farmers don't get that choice of course and are unlikely to, ever. Thank goodness that adequate alternatives are now available.

Our village was late to the fibre party in Norfolk, so we got FTTP on poles. It was more economical to get the fastest and share with the farm staff houses, so we get

 

[Cowabunga]

Our village was late to the fibre party in Norfolk, so we got FTTP on poles. It was more economical to get the fastest and share with the farm staff houses, so we get
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Holly Mackerel Batman! What use is that much speed? Can it transport solid objects instantly as in the Transporter used on the USS Enterprise?

 

[upnortheast]

Daughter finally got fibre to the premises by BT today. 75mbps download and 22up, which is pretty much what my 4G on EE was doing earlier on as well, but 4G fell to 50/22 later on, which is still really good.

I doubt whether FTTP will vary as much in speed as 4G does from hour to hour, so if I had the choice I would certainly have FTTPremises. Most farmers don't get that choice of course and are unlikely to, ever. Thank goodness that adequate alternatives are now available.

If FTTP is available it`s on another level.
We replaced 2 landline broadband services , 2 EE mobile broadband services and 3 landlines with 1 FTTP line. Considerable saving & it seems rock solid reliable

 

[Cowabunga]

If FTTP is available it`s on another level.
We replaced 2 landline broadband services , 2 EE mobile broadband services and 3 landlines with 1 FTTP line. Considerable saving & it seems rock solid reliable
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It is available in places. As I said, my daughter has been connected up to what I presume is not one of the premium packages available, up in the village. It's only available in literally half the village as yet and the other half can't even get fibre to the cabinet. This despite fibre being supplied to strategic poles all over the village for nearly three years now. It must have ticked some box for Government targets somewhere for BT to go that far and no further for all that time.
Regardless, most farms are physically too far from the exchange and off the beaten track to ever be plumbed into fibre. Especially so now that alternatives such as 4G and soon, 5G are coming. There are also interesting satellite alternative on the way which might make rural fibre seem expensive and superfluous quite soon. This may explain the tardiness of BT and OpenReach's progress so far in rural areas.

 

[upnortheast]

Holly Mackerel Batman! What use is that much speed?

In our case, across the site we have 2 offices, 2 houses including 5 kids who have an unbelievable number of devices connected .
1 FTTP service runs close to 300 mbps without fail
Having spent over 10 years battling with crap broadband, getting 50mbps from ee 4G was a revelation, though at the time buying enough data was a issue.
Then came FTTP at 300 mbps which means you never have to worry about connectivity