Who can supply and install 4G internet?

[quattro]

My telephone line broadband isn't good enough to serve my wife who works from home. It's just not stable enough & we are 2 miles of copper from the exchange with no hope of FTTP without doing the work ourselves. It's a farmhouse a mile from the nearest neighbour. No microwave BB providers locally either.

We do have good 4G coverage on Vodafone & O2 (haven't tried the others yet) though the thick walls of the house soon block it. I would need an external antenna and someone to install it. Can you get good enough signal in the loft space? Less masonry up there & weatherproof.

Any suggestions please? I'm not techie enough to do it myself & I'd want the backup in case it failed.

Got a wireless Vodafone broadband 2months ago its very good
I live in a house with 2ft solid granite walls
will do you tube on tv and 4-5 other appliances at once

 

[Netherfield]

And if overhead, then sure to have been hit by the odd shotgun pellet over the years...

Back them damn crows again

 

[J B]

15mb (approx+/-) download should be achievable on the 2 mile copper line.

Well, I have to disagree with you. After every OpenReach expert over about two years had visited they concluded that the max we could get was 2.5 Mbps, so we moved to Airband who are often great and occasionally rubbish!

 

[nonemouse]

Not sure if where you are you could get internet through quickline.co.uk

We have one of the repeater nodes here, so get free broadband, get up to 40mb download. Best we could ever get through the copper was 0.25-0.5 mb

 

[steveR]

Well, I have to disagree with you. After every OpenReach expert over about two years had visited they concluded that the max we could get was 2.5 Mbps, so we moved to Airband who are often great and occasionally rubbish!

That is because they won't replace the crap infrastructure in the sticks....

I almost moved to airband 2-3 years ago and then on speaking with my Provider, they said you should be able to go ADSL 2 Max, up to 50 meg.... Ho Ho Ho, reality is 20-25meg d'/l is achievable with a following wind, but erality is MUCH less. Still better, faster and cheaper than airband though...

 

[Brisel]

Not sure if where you are you could get internet through quickline.co.uk

We have one of the repeater nodes here, so get free broadband, get up to 40mb download. Best we could ever get through the copper was 0.25-0.5 mb

Thank you. I approached another local microwave BB provider but they said we didn't have coverage.

 

[J B]

That is because they won't replace the crap infrastructure in the sticks....

I almost moved to airband 2-3 years ago and then on speaking with my Provider, they said you should be able to go ADSL 2 Max, up to 50 meg.... Ho Ho Ho, reality is 20-25meg d'/l is achievable with a following wind, but erality is MUCH less. Still better, faster and cheaper than airband though...

Steve
Hope you are all well
We pay air-banned £30 pcm and usually get around 30 Mbps
What do you pay?

 

[steveR]

Steve
Hope you are all well
We pay air-banned £30 pcm and usually get around 30 Mbps
What do you pay?

20/pcm. Unlimited. Been getting slower recently, probably because of all the extra damned houses connecting up locally!

Kerry B put put me in touch with the local Airband people, but they were quoting me 45/pcm for 10--15Mbps at the time. Big demand at that time, so they were in a Sellers market.

 

[steveR]

Steve
Hope you are all well
We pay air-banned £30 pcm and usually get around 30 Mbps
What do you pay?

Capped??

 

[DrWazzock]

I just rang EE on the number shown on the website and they sent me a 4G home hub. I managed to get it working myself so I'd say anybody can. Plug and play. Best thing we did. Wife's home working and a lot of my work would be impossible without it. We are 2 miles from exchange and the landline is useless. Tried getting it fixed time and again but never more than 2 MBS, more likely 0.25 MBS.

 

[DrWazzock]

Works within 2 ft thick walls here. No external aerial. Using it as I type. Some WIFI coverage from it extends into the yard. Excellent.

 

[steveR]

I just rang EE on the number shown on the website and they sent me a 4G home hub. I managed to get it working myself so I'd say anybody can. Plug and play. Best thing we did. Wife's home working and a lot of my work would be impossible without it. We are 2 miles from exchange and the landline is useless. Tried getting it fixed time and again but never more than 2 MBS, more likely 0.25 MBS.

Are you using the 4G router with the built in aerial?

 

[steveR]

Works within 2 ft thick walls here. No external aerial. Using it as I type. Some WIFI coverage from it extends into the yard. Excellent.

You must have one hell of a good signal!

 

[Nearly]

Not sure if where you are you could get internet through quickline.co.uk

We have one of the repeater nodes here, so get free broadband, get up to 40mb download. Best we could ever get through the copper was 0.25-0.5 mb

Quickline are putting prices up a touch for us. They justify it by winding the speed back up to what it was when it was Clannet.
We'll be leaving in spring.

 

[upnortheast]

You must have one hell of a good signal!

And a good router

 

[J B]

20/pcm. Unlimited. Been getting slower recently, probably because of all the extra damned houses connecting up locally!

Well, if you will live in the middle of a city!!!

Capped??

No cap that I'm aware of ...
From March to Sept we used less than 100 GB per month, Oct was 116 and Nov was 193 (early Christmas present was a streaming stick/sub)

Happy Christmas to you and yours

J

 

[nonemouse]

Quickline are putting prices up a touch for us. They justify it by winding the speed back up to what it was when it was Clannet.
We'll be leaving in spring.

Under clannet I was still paying £20/month, it was a nice bonus when they put us on to a free contract this summer, reliability and speed seems better (for us and neighbouring paying customers) since hardware upgrades this summer.
If quickline werent providing our service we would be knackered, too far from the exchange to get much service down copper wires, and we seem to be a mobile phone coverage blackspot.

 

[steveR]

Well, if you will live in the middle of a city!!!


No cap that I'm aware of ...
From March to Sept we used less than 100 GB per month, Oct was 116 and Nov was 193 (early Christmas present was a streaming stick/sub)

Happy Christmas to you and yours

And the houses are getting ever closer... I do feel like upping sticks, and going somewhere else, but just too damned old now!

Lots of Netflix, I am sure ...

 

[womble8350]

@Brisel what did you finish up getting? Similar situation here. Landline is about .25mb and have tried 3 mobile 4g but they reduce capacity too much. Had a very distressed OH her the other day as unable to get documents downloaded

 

[Brisel]

I haven’t got any further than a microwave BB quote from Quickline who are the only local provider with coverage. Still looking into 4G and I have a local contact to establish.