Alternatives to BT for broadband in a rural area.

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Hi All

We have between 1.3Mbps and 2Mbps download at present, BT has run out of copper pairs and we need faster broadband.

Someone has suggested these guys. Has anyone used them or something similar, sufficient to make comment?

http://www.ineedbroadband.co.uk/

Many thanks

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MarkRSi said:

Is there a 3G signal in your area?

Barely.

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jammy_basturd said:

Wow, what an awful website for an ISP!

We have a company called VFast in Kent that provide wireless broadband and the service is fantastic. Other than slightly slower ping times you wouldn't notice it isn't "normal" optical broadband.

How do you notice slower ping?

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fatboy b said:

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Hi All

We have between 1.3Mbps and 2Mbps download at present, BT has run out of copper pairs and we need faster broadband.

Someone has suggested these guys. Has anyone used them or something similar, sufficient to make comment?

http://www.ineedbroadband.co.uk/

Many thanks

what area?

Nottinghamshire near the Vale of Belvoir.

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Dave_ST220 said:

Rather than look at ISP's have they suggested anything internal? What master socket do you have? Do you have extensions? Is the router in the master socket or an extension?

Been through all that. It's Chief Execs office complaint at the moment and we had what we used to call an SFO in yesterday. Broke the whole lot down and identified the problem to be in a 200 pair cable which is 25 down. No spare pairs.

BT / Openreach has known about the cable and lack of pairs for at least 5 years.

Even when working at full speed, however, we have only ever got 3Mbps download due to distance from the exchange and BT has made it absolutely clear that they have no intention to provide a faster service. They haven't yet issued a statement saying, "David Cameron can bks" but that is their attitude.

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Dave_ST220 said:

I'm confused, you already have BB? Why do you need a spare pair? Are BT saying your existing pair has a fault? Or were you looking to bond two lines?

Sorry Dave, not being very clear. Our pair is faulty and is delivering 2M maximum. There are no spares as a 200 pair cable is going down and is already 25% faulty.

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tomw2000 said:

I live in this area too. Was also recommended ineedbroadband.

I enquired to see if they could get their service to me - and it seems they can.

Still pondering what to do. We currently get about 3mb download speeds. Which is fine for spotify, and amazon prime and Netflix..
I contacted 'superfastleicstershire' (we're on knipton exchange) and they said they couldn't give a useful firm date for fibre being available yet - only Q1-2016 to Q4 2017!

I'll see if I can be patient

I think you should go for ineedbroadband. Then let me know how it goes and I will decide.

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bearman68 said:

OK, following on from previous posts, I can confirm that the EE 4G network works superbly (I'm not associated with them).
We have put a £50 dongle on a piece of 4x2 and pushed it into the sky as far as it would go. Bought a router to fit on the end of it, and we have wireless internet in the workshop. Download speeds last night were running about 47Mb/s. Even the upload speed was over 10Mb.
God it's amazing, completely faff free browsing, seamless vids, no little thing going round and round. Brilliant.
It does look like it effected by weather though, raining this morning, and a mere 30Mb download.

Really really, it's worth buying a dongle with a suitable SIM, and wandering around looking for a signal. 4G looks superb. (and believe me I am a Luddite with these things).

4G? I don't think we even have G here.

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Quickmoose said:

Gigaclear pay farmer's £3.75 a metre to lay their cable.. it's a national set amount agreed with their union.
In most cases you can 'force' them to do it.
Round the edges of their fields at >1m depth

How can they force owner farmers to do that then?

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FartKong said:

Having a complete nightmare trying to find a house in the countryside here in NI which has decent broadband. As soon as you go about a mile or two outside of any town you can say goodbye to anything over a couple of MB.
We've had to turn down about 10 houses we wanted to buy simply because they have no broadband!
4G broadband looks like the only option but as mentioned the data charges are insane and with me needing a decent connection for working from home I may not be able to do it anyway.

Surely if a house purchase pivots upon the availability of broadband satellite would be a consideration?