Rural Broadband

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crazy about cars

4,454 posts

168 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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Well I can get almost 100MBs down and 30MBs via LAN on the 4G which is awesome. Reception is pretty good too during daytime however it seems to drop out during late night.

Would be a great solution if the data cost is not so pricey... £30 for 10GB :'(

Alex L

2,575 posts

253 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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SL said:
Is anyone using a WISP? Rural Essex here with no chance of fibre (thanks BT). We are lucky in that we get broadband - most of the village doesn't get any and it does make some house sales fall through. At best it's 6 up 0.35 down but it's horribly temperamental and unreliable. The parish council are looking at getting some sort of wireless broadband for the village - probably by bouncing it in to receivers on our two churches.

The blurb looks good but I'm wondering what it's actually like in terms of speed and reliability? They claim that there is no downtime (unless there is a power failure), even if there is thick fog (which we get a lot of). Price is good (starts at £10/month for 6 up 6 down) so I'm wondering if it is a viable alternative to our current BT broadband.
My parents are in very rural Essex and use WISP, they achieve circa 10/12mbps and a stable connection.

I'm in rural north Oxfordshire and fibre has just arrived in our village. We get connected this Tuesday so hoping for an improvement over our current 1.5mbps connection.

Alex L

2,575 posts

253 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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Paul Drawmer said:
Village in Oxfordshire. 76Mb download.
OK, I'm showing off - the village has been made a FTTP pilot. OK for me, but I hear that the recently planned new estate of 85 houses won't get the fibre to the premises that we have.
Let me guess, Deddington? We're only a couple of villages away if so.

GetCarter

29,358 posts

278 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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Alex L said:
Paul Drawmer said:
Village in Oxfordshire. 76Mb download.
OK, I'm showing off - the village has been made a FTTP pilot. OK for me, but I hear that the recently planned new estate of 85 houses won't get the fibre to the premises that we have.
Let me guess, Deddington? We're only a couple of villages away if so.
Out of interest, I used to live in Deddington.

Prawo Jazdy

4,944 posts

213 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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I'm very close to Deddington wavey

P.S. I'm guessing Aynho for the pilot scheme - I saw some signs up when driving through there recently.

Alex L

2,575 posts

253 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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Prawo Jazdy said:
I'm very close to Deddington wavey

P.S. I'm guessing Aynho for the pilot scheme - I saw some signs up when driving through there recently.
Deddington is the pilot and has fibre to door rather than cabinet. Aynho has the Gigaclear signs up, when I looked at their website they require 400 signatures before the roll out.

GetCarter

29,358 posts

278 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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Alex L said:
Prawo Jazdy said:
I'm very close to Deddington wavey .
Deddington is the pilot
Say hello to St Thomas Street, Deddington for me. Lived there 1987 - 1995

A mate of mine, Craig Churchill, has a photography stall in the farmers market.

Alex L

2,575 posts

253 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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GetCarter said:
Say hello to St Thomas Street, Deddington for me. Lived there 1987 - 1995

A mate of mine, Craig Churchill, has a photography stall in the farmers market.
My other half lived in the market square until 4 years ago. I know Craig's cousin Paul, small world.

karona

1,918 posts

185 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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You want rural? Europe ends roughly 10 Km from my garden gate, I'm 70 Km from anything resembling a telephone exchange, 3G is on another planet for me, yet I get a 20 megabit connection from my ISP, so the technology is out there. Someone mentioned village-wide WiFi upthread, that's what I use, a microwave dish on my roof pointed at a distant mountain, rebroadcast via a village wide WLAN.

kryten22uk

2,344 posts

230 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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We're in the sticks, and get 2meg download, but only about 0.05meg upload. Thats the real killer. But an independent company is this month installing FTTP, and I've signed up to their 1000Mb up AND down speed service. 1GB each way, Yowzers!

MoelyCrio

2,457 posts

181 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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We're getting FTTC next month as part of superfast cymru. BT guy has been given permission for a pole on my land (neighbours ok too). So hopefully we will all get FTTP as the cabinet is half a mile away...

Bill

52,472 posts

254 months

Saturday 31st January 2015
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According to the BT website we're 18 months off fibre. smile

pikeyboy

2,349 posts

213 months

Saturday 31st January 2015
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CheesyFootballs said:
Our church also dates back that far.
Do you live in a village beginning with 'W'?
No, Sixxxxxxx

Piglet

6,250 posts

254 months

Saturday 31st January 2015
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Bill said:
According to the BT website we're 18 months off fibre. smile
I hate to disappoint you but BT don't appear to know what they are doing. We were getting fibre to the cabinet last March, then last June, then last September, then last December...... now they've given up with quarters and it's June 2015. I'm told this is a fairly standard approach for BT...(the local open reach engineer tells me the cabinet has actually been enabled for over a year... Who knows...)

The lack of performance of rural superfast (ha!) Broadband projects is likely to be the next scandal. Millions of pounds of public money given to private projects, councils with no understanding of what they signed up for, BT have a monopoly on these projects and the non disclosure agreements mean that even the councils aren't being told what is happening. It's an absolute farce.

Bill

52,472 posts

254 months

Saturday 31st January 2015
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Don't worry, I'm not holding my breath.

CheesyFootballs

14,673 posts

188 months

Saturday 31st January 2015
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boy said:
CheesyFootballs said:
Our church also dates back that far.
Do you live in a village beginning with 'W'?
No, Sixxxxxxx
Ah, your old church has the same name as ours.

Bobley

697 posts

148 months

Saturday 31st January 2015
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We're not far from aynho. Our village is one of bts 10% villages so no chance of fibre . We set up a crowd funded company set up our own fibre privately and we were beaming it between villages, bouncing it of church towers and down to houses. £100 to join our group, £75 installation and £10/month line rental with all you can eat data. We get 30-50mb/s. We've been in business 18 months and we've connected 400 houses to our network. We'll be starting to go fttp this year once we've finished installing fibre between the villages.

Bill

52,472 posts

254 months

Saturday 31st January 2015
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Bobley, how did you go about it?

Alex L

2,575 posts

253 months

Saturday 31st January 2015
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Bobley said:
We're not far from aynho. Our village is one of bts 10% villages so no chance of fibre . We set up a crowd funded company set up our own fibre privately and we were beaming it between villages, bouncing it of church towers and down to houses. £100 to join our group, £75 installation and £10/month line rental with all you can eat data. We get 30-50mb/s. We've been in business 18 months and we've connected 400 houses to our network. We'll be starting to go fttp this year once we've finished installing fibre between the villages.
Please can you PM me the details as I'm in a neighbouring village to Aynho and while fibre went live a couple of weeks ago and we are due our install on Tuesday, it sounds as though your download speed could be higher than we are due to get.

Piglet

6,250 posts

254 months

Saturday 31st January 2015
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I'd be interested too Bobley, we ought to get fibre at some point when BT can be bothered but there are lots of the more rural bits around here that will fall outside of the wonderful Connecting Devon and Somerset project and those folks are looking at various different options.