Not near a Broadband-upgraded exchange.... Ideas?

[juliantaylor]

Hello - I live on a hilltop surrounded by fields (rural Essex near Colchester) and live too far away from an exchange which is not on the list of exchanges to be upgraded in the near future anyway. Is anyone out there in a similar situation and does any one have any advice or dare I say - a workable solution?
Any (printable) advice gladly received. Eyethangewe.

[ATG]

ISDN? Expensive option and poop, but more widely available for some reason. Or are any companies in your neck of the woods offering one of those wireless LAN-based co-operate-with-your-neighbour things? Or what about satellite?

p.s. R U the JT who works/used to work at Bbg?

>> Edited by ATG on Tuesday 27th January 11:01

[tvradict]

I seem to remember Mr & Mrs Carzee saying some time ago they were having Wireless Broadband installed, you could try asking them!!

[agent006]

www.wlan.org.uk/operational_wlan_sites.html

could be of use

[juliantaylor]

A big thanks to all who wanted to help - if you're at all interested I'll tell you something funny.. BT tell me that I live too far away from their exchange (roughly 4 miles?) to even get a 64k line - what they call midband.
Here's the best bit - the solution is a satellite - £60 a month, £1000 for kit and £250 for installation. Tell you what, why dont I just grease my cheeks, bend over my desk and you can have me right here and now to boot.
The sales rep who called me back was not amused.

[RUF 3]

I had the same problem a couple of years ago when trading the Stock Market from home. We have what is officially the oldest exchange in Scotland and it was not even mentioned as a prospect of ever offering broadband. As I was using realtime information it was vital to have reliability and as fast a connection as possible. After much research I went to dial.pipex - a search will get their website - and subscribed to a daytime business uncontended internet connection. It was about £60 a month, but was very good, no timeouts etc. A friend was using the same info as me and on a BT Broadband connection a few miles away. His Broadband was so contended it ended up slower than my pipex connection. Have a look !!

[juliantaylor]

Thanks RUF 3 - I'll take a look. Much appreciated.

[agent006]

juliantaylor said:

BT tell me that I live too far away from their exchange (roughly 4 miles?) to even get a 64k line - what they call midband.

Hmmm, sounds odd. Maybe you can get ISDN but the marketing bods say you can't get 'midband'/

[voyds9]

juliantaylor said:

A big thanks to all who wanted to help - if you're at all interested I'll tell you something funny.. BT tell me that I live too far away from their exchange (roughly 4 miles?) to even get a 64k line - what they call midband. Here's the best bit - the solution is a satellite - £60 a month, £1000 for kit and £250 for installation. Tell you what, why dont I just grease my cheeks, bend over my desk and you can have me right here and now to boot. The sales rep who called me back was not amused.

Got to admire the logic 4 miles is too far for mid band but with satelite you can get broadband from space.