The Farmer who built her own Broadband...

[Penmoel]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37974267

Thought she might have been Carole

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Good for her.

I'd try it here but our neighbouring land is big estates and gravel companies who'd charge fortunes for access, if they allowed it at all.

 

[Philip Watkins]

Carole beat you to it https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/the-farmer-who-built-her-own-broadband.151186/

 

[llamedos]

I certainly agree whole heartedly with her motto.

 

[Farma Parma]

I have met up with Chris in person about 3 years back
Great idea they have but they had one very single upperhand masterstroke that not many of us would poss have?
Knowing the right people that just so happened to know how to get access to a Fibre Backhaul that had nothing
to do with BT.
Id say 75% of the rest of us across the UK wont have that luxury.

 

[ollie989898]

I bet a good portion of this forum could lay a fibre cable up hill and down dale for a fraction of the cost and BS that BT or anyone else can.

There, government, do that. Throw a few billion at farmers and say: build a rural fibre network. Only one provision- has to be direct to the premises. Get it right and we'll give you another 2 billion.

Revitalise the industry whilst improving the national infrastructure. Might pee off the regular civil engineering folks mind but don't let that stop you...

 

[Strawgalore]

I take her husband / son straw , She has revolutionised internet in our area ,
, I think @dazza b could we'll have been involved with the first bit being dug !

 

[Penmoel]

revolutionised

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

It shows how bad things get if you leave a public service in the hands of a private monopoly. Here, only 20 miles from central London, NOBODY gets even close to that speed except the big corporate users with a private gigabit data connection. 20Mb is considered fast and many local vilages are still on <1Mb.

 

[dazza b]

I take her husband / son straw , She has revolutionised internet in our area ,
, I think @dazza b could we'll have been involved with the first bit being dug !

Aye I work there! Chris has put a lot of time and effort into the b4rn project and has never or any problem put her off, if it wasn't for jfdi attitude fibre broadband would never have appeared in this rural economy full credit to her to what she has achieved so far and she makes my breakfast every day [emoji106][emoji1]

 

[Farma Parma]

It shows how bad things get if you leave a public service in the hands of a private monopoly. Here, only 20 miles from central London, NOBODY gets even close to that speed except the big corporate users with a private gigabit data connection. 20Mb is considered fast and many local vilages are still on <1Mb.

100mb is id say where everyone should be as a minimum now
& a 1GB link is the ultimate future...
One day maybes one day

 

[Farma Parma]

I have met up with Chris in person about 3 years back
Great idea they have but they had one very single upperhand masterstroke that not many of us would poss have?
Knowing the right people that just so happened to know how to get access to a Fibre Backhaul that had nothing
to do with BT.
Id say 75% of the rest of us across the UK wont have that luxury.

I better make that 95% of folks in the UK who have no other Telecos other than Poxy BT

If i can get a steady 90mb link all day long with a Mobile Phone on 4G then iam done sure the landline should be way Superior....