Wifi in Village Hall

Frank-the-Wool

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
We have a busy Village Hall and there have been requests to put in Wifi for running educational classes and also possibly for entertainment.
There is no phone line into the Hall at present, but High speed fibre has been put in within 30 metres of the Hall.
Every supplier I talk to wants to put in a phone line or have mobile data. Mobile is a dead loss as the phone signal is non existent.
Any suggestions on how to make this work at a reasonable cost for installation and running costs?
 

Frank-the-Wool

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
It looks as if Talk Talk might be the ones to do a deal.
Being so close to the High speed cabinet makes it a no brainer to use fibre all the way.

I have fibre to the house and the speed and reliability is just amazing.
 
We have a busy Village Hall and there have been requests to put in Wifi for running educational classes and also possibly for entertainment.
There is no phone line into the Hall at present, but High speed fibre has been put in within 30 metres of the Hall.
Every supplier I talk to wants to put in a phone line or have mobile data. Mobile is a dead loss as the phone signal is non existent.
Any suggestions on how to make this work at a reasonable cost for installation and running costs?
If you have a 30 metre run to a high speed broadband cabinet, your broadband speed will be most excellent!

However if there is not already a landline in place, you will need a landline installed to the cabinet on behalf of your broadband supplier by Openreach.

There is no other way of accessing that service - unless as said - there is already a (residential or business) broadband service nearby that you can tap into using either WiFi, ethernet cable or your own fibre back to the router or network switch at that house or business, just like extending your own existing broadband connection to another building.
 

f0ster

Member
with BT if there has been a phone line installed in the property in the past you can request to take over the line. the way to do this is to get an old BT junction box and a bit of cable and mount it somewhere with the cable coming out and it disappear off somewhere. possibly slap a bit of paint on it to make it look old or get one that is old. BT will send out an engineer to access the property. when he sees the old junction box he will then instruct the installation team to proceed, they will renew the line anyway to the bt box. this has worked, the assessor was on site for five mins.
 

Frank-the-Wool

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
Well I have had a frustrating day talking to BT!
First phone call to BT said that it was not possible to have Broadband without a phone line, however when I said that I have fibre to my house and no copper wires the guy at BT said it was not possible and cut me off.

I tried again and spoke to a different person and he said that it was no problem to have a fibre connection and no phone line. However there was a problem because the Hall is not registered as a property and because it has never had a phone line it does not exist.
Therefore they cannot do a survey!!
I have had to fill in a form that is for a new building before they will send someone out to do the survey for fibre connection. The irony of this is that the Fibre connection. if it is accessible is free. If you have a phone line put in it is £125.00 plus vat and then a line rental.
The fibre connection can be just a monthly payment on a 2 year contract.
 
We are doing 'major renovations' to a property in N Wales.
Because it has been empty for so long, Royal Mail have de-registered the address, so we now need to pay Gwynedd Council to re-instate the address.
Once this is done, we can then apply to 'a phone provider' to get OR to install a phone line! :scratchhead:
 

Frank-the-Wool

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
My saga of dealing with BT and Open Reach continues!
Following the advice from BT that I had to register the property and had to complete a lengthy on line form to Open Reach I received a phone call today from a slightly more helpful individual at Open Reach who then told me that I had been advised wrongly by BT as the form was for a new building.

He told me that they can put in a premises as unregistered but with a correct address and post code to actually set up an order. He also told me that I do not have to have a copper wire phone line as Fibre is available and told me to call BT again.

I called BT and told them that I had been given the run around so far and had been advised that they were able to give me a quote for a "unregistered property". The BT adviser agreed that he could, however he could not proceed until I agreed to put in a telephone line that would be a copper wire!!

I said I did not want a telephone line and that Open Reach told me I could have Broadband from Fibre with no telephone line, this appeared to initially confuse the chap, however he said I have to contact the local Business installers. I was given a phone number, but guess what they knocked off at 5pm.

I will try again tomorrow.
 

HDAV

Member
There are some phone providers who will waive the new connection fee levied by open reach.

Try Vodafone they were doing very good deals on consumer recently also SSE especially if they are elec supplier. Recommend you use pro spec router not the freebie one.


Why not have a phone line? No one need know it's there and no phone ever need be connected....
 

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
There are some phone providers who will waive the new connection fee levied by open reach.

Try Vodafone they were doing very good deals on consumer recently also SSE especially if they are elec supplier. Recommend you use pro spec router not the freebie one.


Why not have a phone line? No one need know it's there and no phone ever need be connected....

Might want to be more specific. Draytek?
 

PaulineDallington

New Member
Hi Frank did you solve your Wi-fi problem? I’m treasurer of another East Sussex village hall and also want to install broadband in the hall w/o paying for a phone line. We finally have a fibre cabinet in the street and I now have fast broadband at home just up the road from the hall (but too far to use my connection) Be grateful for any advice you can offer
 
Hi Frank did you solve your Wi-fi problem? I’m treasurer of another East Sussex village hall and also want to install broadband in the hall w/o paying for a phone line. We finally have a fibre cabinet in the street and I now have fast broadband at home just up the road from the hall (but too far to use my connection) Be grateful for any advice you can offer
Are you certain you cannot beam in a WiFi signal in from another property that is slightly closer to the hall? That'll be the fastest and cheapest way forward.
 

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