Anyone near Chesham have decent broadband I could borrow?

[22]

Strange request probably... but we have no landline at home (used to have it but was so s.l.o.w), we just use a mobile 4g share plan (50 gig) which does our phones and MiFi thing at home for kids' tablets etc. We're on the outskirts of Chesham (between Chesham & Bovingdon) and close to a BT cabinet but the broadband has always been pretty pointless (and no cable available etc).

Was my lad's birthday on 21st and my father-in-law bought him an xbox one with a FIFA download. To download the game is nearly all a month's data, so I went for plan B. I still have a broadband connection a few hundred metres away in a small unit on a friend's farm. Down here now, but even BT Infinity is excruciatingly slow. The game is at 2% having been hooked up all day (tried wired and wireless) and at current rates it will be next week before the game is downloaded.

So if anyone near me (Hemel, Amersham, etc) has a properly fast (and unlimited) home broadband I could use for a little while, I'd love to pop over, hook up to the network, download the game and let him play the damn thing. Beer tokens and the gratitude of an 11 year old kid plus his dad awaits.

[SBDJ]

Bit further away in Aylesbury, but with an unlimited 200Mb connection if you get stuck

[ayman82]

Also in Aylesbury with Fast BB and Unlimited!

[22]

Thanks guys. The father-in-law popped in and took it home (Dunstable) so hopefully sorted this evening. The good side of having a discussion with EE about not having the data for for such occasions means I now have an additional 8 gig a month (not a huge amount, but appreciate the gesture) plus a £20 credit for 'just in case you run out'. Even the game he got with a disc needs a 15gig update, you don't really pay attention until it's all pounds, shillings and pence!

[ThePrisoner]

22 said:

Thanks guys. The father-in-law popped in and took it home (Dunstable) so hopefully sorted this evening. The good side of having a discussion with EE about not having the data for for such occasions means I now have an additional 8 gig a month (not a huge amount, but appreciate the gesture) plus a £20 credit for 'just in case you run out'. Even the game he got with a disc needs a 15gig update, you don't really pay attention until it's all pounds, shillings and pence!

If you get stuck in the future I'm in Botley, give me a shout.

[shavermcspud]

Why dont you look in to sharing somebody elses internet in the same town?

I sued to set long distance wifi mesh's up commercially, it can be done for fairly cheap these day if you have a willing neighbor in line of sight.