Rural Broadband
Discussion
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.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.
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.
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.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.
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.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.
Prawo Jazdy said:
I'm very close to Deddington
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. P.S. I'm guessing Aynho for the pilot scheme - I saw some signs up when driving through there recently.
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.
Bill said:
According to the BT website we're 18 months off fibre.
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.
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.
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.Gassing Station | Homes, Gardens and DIY | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff