Rural Broadband

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Cheib

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23,111 posts

174 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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Currently live in London and enjoy Virgin's 60 MB broadband......we're moving out to the sticks this summer. Just been doing a bit of research on a village we have seen a house in that we like....it's got 2MB Broadband (they are campaigning to try and get faster broadband). Am I going to kill myself?!?!?

Most worried about things like streaming films on something like Apple TV. Guessing that is totally out of the question ? Even downloading an App for my phone could take friggin ages ?!?!


Steve H

5,224 posts

194 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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Yep, it's crap. We use mobile dongles because they are better than BTs hopeless offerings rolleyes

stuartmmcfc

8,653 posts

191 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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We live in the "sticks" and have around 5mb . We stream films, use Apple tv etc with no problems. It does take some time to download films though.

jontymo

810 posts

149 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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we have 2mb in a semi rural village, until 10 minutes ago we could still watch netflix etc as long as no surfing the net at the same time, saying that just tried to get wolf hall on iplayer and won't load up!!!!!!!

Bill

52,479 posts

254 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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We're two miles from the exchange and get 1-2Mb, 3G isn't hugely slower. The bigger issue is going without for a couple of weeks because the line was taken out by a tree.

vanordinaire

3,701 posts

161 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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We've got half a meg and no 4g or even 3g so dongles don't work. We can't open anything with video content. We're used to it and it doesn't bother us but my son has 60 meg in his student flat and he is demented when he comes home now.

fatboy b

9,492 posts

215 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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We get 6.7, and have done for the past 8 or so years. No sign that BT will do anything about it, and now I work at home a lot, it's not good enough anymore.

Then last weekend, I get a Facebook advert offering 20mb synchronous using wi-fi ariel tech to a mast that the ISP has on their site, which happens to be 2 miles away (Sugarnet). They cover most of rural oxfordhshire apparently. It ain't cheap, but then I'll offset the cost a bit by switching over to Voip and binning the landline. So fk you BT!!!

Edited by fatboy b on Tuesday 27th January 20:39

Bill

52,479 posts

254 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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And I'm with Zen because they deal with BT when necessary and carry more clout, however the last outage was common with other houses so suddenly BT didn't give a st any more. rolleyes

Paul Drawmer

4,864 posts

266 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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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.

Baldinho

585 posts

213 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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I get less than 1mb so got satellite broadband which offers 13mb. Delay for signal to go to satellite and back means it ain't much faster for general Internet use but can at least use Netflix etc. Check on bt openreach website to see if there's are any plans to upgrade to fibre on your new place. Neighbour to me now gets 30mb thanks to his cabinet being upgraded, mine's not being done for another 18 months...

No 3G coverage either.

Cheib

Original Poster:

23,111 posts

174 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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Hmmm. I think you've all confirmed what I thought....going to be tough having tasted the forbidden fruit of 60 MPS. At least it seems to have 4G coverage!

Will check with BT on upgrade plans. Can't buy a house based on this (well I could but the Mrs has other priorities!)

Steve H

5,224 posts

194 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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Looking at it the other way, I'd rather have lousy broadband than have to live in London rofl

bigdom

2,072 posts

144 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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Cheib said:
Currently live in London and enjoy Virgin's 60 MB broadband.....
I live out in the countryside and can obtain 150mb Virgin and 76mb on BT. Not sure I would survive in London wink

Vodafone has updated the local network, so see 20mb up and down on 4G.

Depends how rural and on the area as a whole for decent infrastructure

Edited by bigdom on Tuesday 27th January 22:23

FlossyThePig

4,083 posts

242 months

Tuesday 27th 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.
Are you sure you are on FTTP and not FTTC. The speed suggest FTTC as FTTP can offer speed up to 330Mb

Troubleatmill

10,210 posts

158 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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To the OP - You will go mad.
Having spent 10 years in not-spots...

Budget heavily for Satellite download.

gtidriver

3,334 posts

186 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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When i moved to my current house i found i had .7 on the download, BT told me that fibre was on its wain a couple of months, the couple of months was over 2years ago. I get my service through vfast, ironically the block of flats that i receive my transmissions from which is about 5minutes walk gets 75meg, its a council estate. My provider is ok, except they never call back and I'm still waiting,over 2 years later for there double download speed to arrive..

crazy about cars

4,454 posts

168 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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Might be worth checking if you can get 4G. I recently discovered I can get 4g even though it's not on EEs online coverage map. Data is expensive but not so bad if you are not a heavy user.

Also want to add that BT's online checker is not accurate. It shows that my main exchange is "under consideration" however that is not true as a mate living in another area with same exchange can get fibre. BT just picks where they deem is suitable for them to install the green cabinet.



Edited by crazy about cars on Wednesday 28th January 06:28

blueg33

35,580 posts

223 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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Village in the Cotswolds, 1-2mb and its crap. The exchange is being upgraded but they have decided not to bring high speed broadband to our village but are doing the others around us. No 3g let alone 4g signal!

astroarcadia

1,710 posts

199 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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As above, Cotswold village, 0.8MB. unreliable connection. No 3G. Cannot stream.

Sky planner is used alot or viewing/saving programmes.

Some in village have satellite link via a company called Loop Scorpio, think they get around 6MB

http://www.loopscorpio.net



oilydan

2,030 posts

270 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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Hamlet in Devon.

0.5M, skype cuts out if the phone rings. No phone signal in the house, except GPRS by the front window.

There is a post box up the road though, it's sometimes faster to send a letter to Amazon to order something than try using the internet....