Never had colonys like it.

[Moobee]

If you have a smartphone and 4G at the house, you need to get a good mobile phone contract to include a lot of data, go into the settings and set the phone as a wi-fi hotspot. Once any internet-hungry, wi-fi devices such as laptops find the hotspot, you connect and will get fast internet. You can test the difference on your current contract, just don't do it for long if you don't have a good data contract. We only have about 1Mbps download speed via TalkTalk landline. But we can get up to 15Mbps via a Vodafone 3G device.; we could get even faster from 4G. Our unlimited Vodafone contract costs £30 per month. Being oldies, we set it up at the Vodafone shop and a nice young man explained it to us.

We are lucky to be a very short distance from the junction box and have brilliant speeds with BT network…. 4G a bit hit and miss here.

 

[user 20297]

We are lucky to be a very short distance from the junction box and have brilliant speeds with BT network…. 4G a bit hit and miss here.View attachment 28353

WOW!!!

 

[Murox]

we used to get only 1-2mbps then we changed to a private satellite system which gives up to 50mbps potentially. Right now its

which about normal. The good thing is I don't have tp pay BT the extra £10 ish for using their bit of wire for internet, and the deal is actually very reasonable as well.
edit - thats wireless connection speed by the way. wired is decidedly faster .

 

[Swarm]

I regularly had people pull up and moan about their internet connection and speed whenever I worked in some rural idyll.
"How far away is the Exchange?"
"Oh about five miles that way." Pointing across the fields.
Always made me laugh, I've worked in some areas that were miles from the cabinet, never mind the exchange, miles of aerial cable and people think they will get the same service as they do on the High Street. With many of these routes you were lucky to get speech and now they expect to carry data, there has been no serious investment in the aging infrastructure so expectations are way off.

 

[user 20297]

I regularly had people pull up and moan about their internet connection and speed whenever I worked in some rural idyll.
"How far away is the Exchange?"
"Oh about five miles that way." Pointing across the fields.
Always made me laugh, I've worked in some areas that were miles from the cabinet, never mind the exchange, miles of aerial cable and people think they will get the same service as they do on the High Street. With many of these routes you were lucky to get speech and now they expect to carry data, there has been no serious investment in the aging infrastructure so expectations are way off.

....only £5,000,000,000 from public money. Update...£1.2 billion. The Government seems to be doing the usual and promising money, taking it away, then announcing it again as if new investment. Even so at £1.2 billion and just a mile and a half from the nearest fibre broadband cabinet, I do expect slightly faster broadband than barely 1 Mbps.

 

[Markthebuilder]

....only £5,000,000,000 from public money. Update...£1.2 billion. The Government seems to be doing the usual and promisng money, taking it away, then announcing it again as if new investment. Even so at £1.2 billion and just a mile and a half from the nearest fibre broadband cabinet, I do expect slightly faster broadband than barely 1 Mbps.

But only spent to Benifit 90% of the population. If your in the sicks or up a mountain you are unlikely to see any investment ,
I am in the end of 1 line 3 miles from exchange but not enough users to warrant upgrading it,

New cable from exchange 3 miles in other direction to the village up the road goes within 150 yards of property but I can’t have connection to it as there is already a line to the house????

 

[Gilberdyke John]

I regularly had people pull up and moan about their internet connection and speed whenever I worked in some rural idyll.
"How far away is the Exchange?"
"Oh about five miles that way." Pointing across the fields.
Always made me laugh, I've worked in some areas that were miles from the cabinet, never mind the exchange, miles of aerial cable and people think they will get the same service as they do on the High Street. With many of these routes you were lucky to get speech and now they expect to carry data, there has been no serious investment in the aging infrastructure so expectations are way off.

We used to get speech without difficulty between Johannesburg and Cape Town over aerial wires in the '70s once connection was established (establishing the call could be tricky but it was improving when I left SA). Johannesburg to the UK on old cables was also good. I'm not sure why you think a few miles of copper wire is so bad? Granted digital over fibre is much faster.

 

[CLB]

Bizarrely we benefited from a new development of expensive houses being built in our very dodgy 3mg max area. It seems a deal must have been done and we now have fttp (fibre to the premises) as they'd have never sold the houses with what we had before.

 

[Pembroke]

......and you can always rely on the truth from Wikipedia

Wikipedia is great for historic things and science.

It's generally the modern contemporary and contentious stuff that's less likely to be correct as a 'peoples editor' with an axe to grind can change an entry to reflect their own personal views.

 

[sipa]

We are in a rural location and had terrible internet speed through the phone line (no fibre) 5mb max. couldn't cope with that.
Switched to Vodafone and use there 4/5g Gigacube wifi router. All goes direct through the mobile phone network. (not your mobile phone) works a treat. Unlimited data @ £50 +Vat Month. Consistent speed, no issues. Obviously depends if you can get a decent 4/5g signal in your location.
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[Swarm]

We used to get speech without difficulty between Johannesburg and Cape Town over aerial wires in the '70s once connection was established (establishing the call could be tricky but it was improving when I left SA). Johannesburg to the UK on old cables was also good. I'm not sure why you think a few miles of copper wire is so bad? Granted digital over fibre is much faster.

The tricks used to achieve that don't apply in the local network.

 

[Swarm]

....only £5,000,000,000 from public money. Update...£1.2 billion. The Government seems to be doing the usual and promising money, taking it away, then announcing it again as if new investment. Even so at £1.2 billion and just a mile and a half from the nearest fibre broadband cabinet, I do expect slightly faster broadband than barely 1 Mbps.

Yes they started rolling out all sorts and making promises about things they don't understand.
Chuck a few more billion in the pot and you might get somewhere. That money has been spent getting fibre in the ground, through some very ancient, already congested ducts or back up on poles in more rural areas, on the same poles that have been there for decades .
Unless you have fibre to your premises, it's the mile and a half that slows you down..

 

[user 20297]

Unless you have fibre to your premises, it's the mile and a half that slows you down..

...eaxactly what the Openreach man told me when installing our line.

 

[GuyNir]

Connecting infrastructure to the wind turbines here, to carry power down south worked really well and was done quickly… Amazing how well it works that way.