getting broadband prioritised for your area

[petemurphy]

Hi,

anyone had any luck getting their area prioritised ( or getting any info! ) for broadband rollout?

still on 2mb here and its shocking.

this just isnt good enough in this day and age:


http://www.betterbroadbandoxfordshire.org.uk/quest...

The aim of the Better Broadband for Oxfordshire is to achieve the best long-term broadband coverage for the county.
As with all programmes of this size, it’s not possible to plan every area at the same time, so some areas will be enabled before others. As we plan the rollout we’re working closely with our partners and participating organisations to take into account all the factors that may have an impact on the speed of delivery, for example local demographics and geography, planning requirements, existing engineering infrastructure and the availability of suitable technologies to provide a service.

head against a wall or is there any way of getting it quicker?

thanks

[andy-xr]

Best option - get a few neighbours together, you'll need about 10 houses, and ideally someone who works at a telco wholesaler, and buy a 10meg or 100meg leased line. You'll get next to no contention and that will be better than having 40 meg Infinity that everyone else is on. It'd cost about £3,000 pa, so £250/month, which comes to £25 per household.

B4RN (http://b4rn.org.uk/) near us started off as something similar, they had volunteers out helping them dig the fields up to put the cable in

[petemurphy]

andy-xr said:

Best option - get a few neighbours together, you'll need about 10 houses, and ideally someone who works at a telco wholesaler, and buy a 10meg or 100meg leased line. You'll get next to no contention and that will be better than having 40 meg Infinity that everyone else is on. It'd cost about £3,000 pa, so £250/month, which comes to £25 per household.

B4RN (http://b4rn.org.uk/) near us started off as something similar, they had volunteers out helping them dig the fields up to put the cable in

interesting thanks will look into it

[loafer123]

Or just get satellite broadband instead...

http://www.satelliteinternet.co.uk/

[FredClogs]

A guy in our village tried and I think he got the brush off from BT, we're just too small to be a priority, so he's trying to do something similar to what's described above, but I think he's struggling to get people interested or prepared to commit whilst their in contracted supplies.

[petemurphy]

loafer123 said:

Or just get satellite broadband instead...

http://www.satelliteinternet.co.uk/

blimey i didnt realise it was so cheap

[Silverbullet767]

petemurphy said:

blimey i didnt realise it was so cheap

Not really suitable for skype/online gaming due to ping times though, if that's what you're using it for.

[hollydog]

petemurphy said:

Hi,

anyone had any luck getting their area prioritised ( or getting any info! ) for broadband rollout?

still on 2mb here and its shocking.

this just isnt good enough in this day and age:


http://www.betterbroadbandoxfordshire.org.uk/quest...

The aim of the Better Broadband for Oxfordshire is to achieve the best long-term broadband coverage for the county.
As with all programmes of this size, it’s not possible to plan every area at the same time, so some areas will be enabled before others. As we plan the rollout we’re working closely with our partners and participating organisations to take into account all the factors that may have an impact on the speed of delivery, for example local demographics and geography, planning requirements, existing engineering infrastructure and the availability of suitable technologies to provide a service.

head against a wall or is there any way of getting it quicker?

thanks

Your lucky my street regularly only gets 1 mb. its a ficking nightmere. It dose say on the uk broadband checker site that I should get 2.4 mb. but my laptop says half that.

Edited by hollydog on Thursday 24th April 14:22

[Accelebrate]

Assuming you're in Oxfordshire, any plans for Gigaclear to come to your village?

http://www.gigaclear.com

[Mark Benson]

We've just got 80Mb broadband in a rural North Yorkshire village.

NY Council were behind it, along with BT and a lot of rural parish councils, they see it as a way to bring people (like me) who can work from home a lot of the time to the county from the south east. http://www.superfastnorthyorkshire.com/home

My company allows homeworking for anyone who does not need to be tied to one of the main offices (previously I worked in Reading, but my boss is in the US and my teams are spread out around Europe and the Middle East) and the move up here was a no-brainer once the county council had announced their intentions. Many people are in the same position as me and the council hopes that an influx of homeworkers will help revitalise small villages, where in the past people would work for a local landowner or business and shop and socialise within the village.
Almost everyone who works commutes out of their villages to the towns now, making shops and pubs unviable, but an increase of homeworkers (there are 4 in my village already) might mean that some of the local services stay put as use increases.

It's taken a couple of years, but we now have some really remote places getting 40-80Mb connections - an example of a very forward thinking council...

[petemurphy]

Accelebrate said:

Assuming you're in Oxfordshire, any plans for Gigaclear to come to your village?

http://www.gigaclear.com

doesnt look like we qualify

The community must comprise more than 400 properties

[petemurphy]

Mark Benson said:

We've just got 80Mb broadband in a rural North Yorkshire village.

NY Council were behind it, along with BT and a lot of rural parish councils, they see it as a way to bring people (like me) who can work from home a lot of the time to the county from the south east. http://www.superfastnorthyorkshire.com/home

My company allows homeworking for anyone who does not need to be tied to one of the main offices (previously I worked in Reading, but my boss is in the US and my teams are spread out around Europe and the Middle East) and the move up here was a no-brainer once the county council had announced their intentions. Many people are in the same position as me and the council hopes that an influx of homeworkers will help revitalise small villages, where in the past people would work for a local landowner or business and shop and socialise within the village.
Almost everyone who works commutes out of their villages to the towns now, making shops and pubs unviable, but an increase of homeworkers (there are 4 in my village already) might mean that some of the local services stay put as use increases.

It's taken a couple of years, but we now have some really remote places getting 40-80Mb connections - an example of a very forward thinking council...

I presume that is what we'll get one day as its the same website design:

http://www.betterbroadbandoxfordshire.org.uk/home

its just the uncertainty - Bt say we should get it by 2015 depending on surveys and the prevailing wind..

[Lefty]

2mb? I'd be delighted with that! 0.1mb here so we've had to get satellite broadband at £50pcm

[petemurphy]

Accelebrate said:

Assuming you're in Oxfordshire, any plans for Gigaclear to come to your village?

http://www.gigaclear.com

if they can install it / make it pay why cant bt?

[chris1roll]

I'd kill for 2Mb!
Can't get anything here at all, not even a flicker of the DSL light. (Then BT tried to charge us for cancelling the 'service'!!) Even once the exchange is upgraded, its still unlikely we'll get anything useful.

We're on satellite broadband @ £50/month and its pretty st TBH. I'd only recommend it if you had no other option.
Right now we're throttled back because some people came to stay over Easter and bust the allowance limit (This is not hard to do) It's virtually unusable on some sites, and will remain that way for the next 28 days.
13GB up and down in any 28 day period is feck all, we must have chewed through Terrabytes when we had Landline broadband.
Forget gaming, think very carefully before watching a video on youtube, spotify? Not a chance!
VPN for home working is unusable because of the latency.

There's a land based radio broadband company started up locally, offering 8Mb down and a 20GB limit for £30, and say you can negotiate a higher limit. Once the 2yr satellite contract is up I'll be giving them a call.




But I'd still rather this than living in a town, some people I've spoken too are very much the other way.

Edited by chris1roll on Thursday 24th April 20:59

[Grumpy old git]

Silverbullet767 said:

petemurphy said:

blimey i didnt realise it was so cheap

Not really suitable for skype/online gaming due to ping times though, if that's what you're using it for.

We've used our satellite broadband in Spain (Avonline) for Skype and it was fine. We were told it wouldn't work well and weren't expecting it to be any good, but we've experienced no problems, the line is clear with no delays/echoes etc.

It also works flawlessly for streaming films, in fact it's better at streaming than my 60Mb+ Virgin fibre optic here in the UK.

[loafer123]

Given your username, you are surprisingly cheerful.

[Roo]

We used to have satellite broadband at work.

Binned it because it gets affected by the weather too much. We've gone for a 3g dongle instead. Cheaper and more reliable.

[Accelebrate]

petemurphy said:

Accelebrate said:

Assuming you're in Oxfordshire, any plans for Gigaclear to come to your village?

http://www.gigaclear.com

if they can install it / make it pay why cant bt?

Altnets often can't without government funding and the donation of time/equipment/access to land by local residents.

Is there a nearby village with better connectivity that you could set up a wireless link to?