Rural Broadband - any experiences?
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Found a great house to buy...............but its in the middle of nowhere (Hemington, Peterborough).
BT broadband showing as 1mb-3mb.
Virgin not in that area
4G patchy
Current enjoy over 100mb where we are.
We work from home sometimes, stream tv etc etc.
Are there any other options? Satellite broadband?
Everything else about the place is perfect......................
BT broadband showing as 1mb-3mb.
Virgin not in that area
4G patchy
Current enjoy over 100mb where we are.
We work from home sometimes, stream tv etc etc.
Are there any other options? Satellite broadband?
Everything else about the place is perfect......................
We are on fixed wireless/ line of sight.
not brilliant, but enough to stream Project Binky and use my work VPN. I will probably swap out the 10 to 20mb / 2 mb we have for 4G, which is 40/40 now.
You can get a grant towards rural links as well.
https://basicbroadband.culture.gov.uk/home/solutio...
SuperFast Northamptonshire has Gigaclear as being planned for Hemington
https://www.superfastnorthamptonshire.net/Pages/ho...
I used the postcode given by Google for the village church in Hemington
https://www.gigaclear.net/postcode-checker/superfa...
which said you should get 1Gbps fibre by 2020. Sounds like it's still being planned so I won't totally bet on it but worth looking into further with the actual property details.
In the short term, as above, see if anyone is offering a wireless service in the area. Satellite would be the very last resort for me given the latency.
https://www.superfastnorthamptonshire.net/Pages/ho...
I used the postcode given by Google for the village church in Hemington
https://www.gigaclear.net/postcode-checker/superfa...
which said you should get 1Gbps fibre by 2020. Sounds like it's still being planned so I won't totally bet on it but worth looking into further with the actual property details.
In the short term, as above, see if anyone is offering a wireless service in the area. Satellite would be the very last resort for me given the latency.
Harpoon said:
SuperFast Northamptonshire has Gigaclear as being planned for Hemington
https://www.superfastnorthamptonshire.net/Pages/ho...
I used the postcode given by Google for the village church in Hemington
https://www.gigaclear.net/postcode-checker/superfa...
which said you should get 1Gbps fibre by 2020. Sounds like it's still being planned so I won't totally bet on it but worth looking into further with the actual property details.
In the short term, as above, see if anyone is offering a wireless service in the area. Satellite would be the very last resort for me given the latency.
Very interesting thanks, worth thinking about the long term possibilities 👍🏻https://www.superfastnorthamptonshire.net/Pages/ho...
I used the postcode given by Google for the village church in Hemington
https://www.gigaclear.net/postcode-checker/superfa...
which said you should get 1Gbps fibre by 2020. Sounds like it's still being planned so I won't totally bet on it but worth looking into further with the actual property details.
In the short term, as above, see if anyone is offering a wireless service in the area. Satellite would be the very last resort for me given the latency.
1 to 3Mb down steam is fine for running a remote desktop if that's how you do work from home. If you're tunnelling into your corp LAN from home, it'll probably suck balls. So long as the connection is stable and latency is fairly low, you really don't need much bandwidth for a remote desktop connection.
Patchy 4G could probably be made less patchy with a decent antenna on the roof.
When we moved to the middle of nowhere we initially had a 2Mb connection. So long as no one was trying to stream or download video content, my 3 screen remote desktop was absolutely fine. We had a weak but stable 4G signal from a mast about a mile away that I could use for video conference calls.
Openreach recently upgraded us to fibre for free, so we now have absurdly fast FTTP. Makes little difference to the work-from-home experience, but transforms video streaming. Round our way they've laid miles of fibre out to individual farmhouses in remote valleys. It's great for those of us living here, but the cost/benefit for the nation as a whole seems bonkers. Perhaps your area is due a fibre roll-out too?
Patchy 4G could probably be made less patchy with a decent antenna on the roof.
When we moved to the middle of nowhere we initially had a 2Mb connection. So long as no one was trying to stream or download video content, my 3 screen remote desktop was absolutely fine. We had a weak but stable 4G signal from a mast about a mile away that I could use for video conference calls.
Openreach recently upgraded us to fibre for free, so we now have absurdly fast FTTP. Makes little difference to the work-from-home experience, but transforms video streaming. Round our way they've laid miles of fibre out to individual farmhouses in remote valleys. It's great for those of us living here, but the cost/benefit for the nation as a whole seems bonkers. Perhaps your area is due a fibre roll-out too?
MOBB said:
Found a great house to buy...............but its in the middle of nowhere (Hemington, Peterborough).
BT broadband showing as 1mb-3mb.
Virgin not in that area
4G patchy
Current enjoy over 100mb where we are.
We work from home sometimes, stream tv etc etc.
Are there any other options? Satellite broadband?
Everything else about the place is perfect......................
We live about 10 minutes from Hemington, in the middle of a field. Using a Rightmove Hemington postcode (PE8 5QJ) from a random Hemington house, Gigaclear say they are ready to connect.BT broadband showing as 1mb-3mb.
Virgin not in that area
4G patchy
Current enjoy over 100mb where we are.
We work from home sometimes, stream tv etc etc.
Are there any other options? Satellite broadband?
Everything else about the place is perfect......................
That said, I wouldn't discount 4G. Coverage checkers said our 4G would be patchy but with a Huawei B618 we get pretty good results. Averages around 30Mbps and costs 20.00 quid a month for unlimited everything. Gigaclear is more expensive and provides a very particular router.
Good luck.
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