Rural Broadband

[Cheib]

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 ?!?!

[Cheib]

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!)

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Sheepshanks said:

Cheib said:

....we're moving out to the sticks this summer.

Which county are you moving to? There's usually a "Connecting (insert your county)" website which gives you options available and tells you what they're pushing for and what's planned.

Buckinghamshire....still in house hunting phase. Potential house is in a village called Chartridge which is quite close to a town called Chesham.

So not properly rural but still apparently has ste broadband.

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croyde said:

Are we to start seeing discrepancies in house prices due to broadband availability like we currently do with houses in catchment areas for decent schools?

Clearly an issue for some people...I'll confess my choice of house will be more about school catchment than how fast my Broadband is though.

Found this http://www.connectedcounties.org/home specifically for Herts and Bucks so help may be at hand....going to view the house on Sat (wife has already seen it) so will be asking questions and trying to find out more.

Love the belt and braces of "traditional" broadband and Satellite.

As somebody posted one of the key issues is "future proofing".....IPTV will be the dominant format which is what the Sky and BT battle for Premiership rights is all about. If you don't have decent speeds it is going to become more and more of an issue.

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onomatopoeia said:

Cheib said:

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?!?!?

If services like streaming video are important to you, then throughput available with consumer broadband should be as important as catchment areas / number of bedrooms / garaging / whatever in your choice of home.

Few people seem to be able to think that way though!

Well I am thinking like that but it wouldn't be on my wife's radar! House buying is almost inevitably a compromise unless you have a ridiculous amount of money to spend unfortunately.