Rural Internet - setup and speeds

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I live in a fairly remote area and have been getting by on a system which has been getting progressively slower as EE have promised much on 4G and dont have sufficient capacity. I have therefore gone over to a private network (microwave) costs £400 to setup and £30 per month thereafter will be cancelling EE. have gone from 2/3 Mb/sec download/0.2 upload to 55Mb/sec download etc and I get the subs back from EE.
I notice BT are employing 1000 new starters to aid with fibre roll-out. Taken far too long to do this in the rural areas.
 
We were struggling with Sky in East Angus and barely managed 3.5Mbps for the last 18 months, despite having a fibre cable terminate 20 yards from the house. We're very remote, with the nearest exchange some 2m from us, and the nearest neighbour half a mile away. We now have the superfast fibre installed though, and speeds average 150mbps, which is rocketship speeds in comparison. But you're right, given the charges for broadband & TV the time it's taken to establish this infrastructure is outrageous
 
Hi what part of the country are you in had a local company sort me a 4g setup for £250 and that was with two routers £30 a month about 16Mb it’s mega compared to the 1.5 we was on before. South Yorkshire.
 
My dad went from snail speed BT internet to super-fast private network in a very rural location. Not sure about costs but it was a hell of a difference in performance.
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If it's what I think it is, it'll be a WiMAX system. I have a place in rural Spain and my WiMax there is close on an order of magnitude better than my UK landline based broadband.

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We live quite remote, for Essex anyway!, for years we relied on a microwave link which worked well but last year two seperate companies ran fibre into the village as part of the government roll out, one of the companies dug the road up to install their fibre the other installed new telegraph poles and went overhead. Don't get me wrong we now get 300+Mb for £50.00 a month (can have 1Gb if we want) but what a waste of money by allowing two separate companies to get government grants to install 2 separate networks into the village
 
Had an engineer out at work (rural location) surveying for internet improvements he was saying Elon musk star link system is going to be a game changer in the near future. Beginning to roll out across Europe still a bit pricey but great speeds for rural communities
 
I binned BT and there landline due to years of appalling service and intermittent broadband with approx 2mbps download on a good day.
I now have a 4g router and an external directional antenna and get around 20-25 mbps with EE for £35 per month.
I believe that I am due to have fiber optic sometime this year as part of the R100 programme as we are in a rural location.
I won't hold my breath as the SNP promised that we would have superfast broadband in 2016
 
Thankfully, we've just finished the painfully slow process of having FTTP, upto 1Gbps, funded through the the gigabit voucher system. It did require one of our neighbours to setup a company and coordinate the installation.

Its a lot better than what came before but can still be exceptionally slow at times, and I did have to suffer through trying to deal withBT's incredibly rude and awkward customer services. To satisfy the scheme, we had to get a service of over 30Mbps, contract had just finished with BT, found whatever needed online, rang them up to behold that you can't have that it's for new customers only! All we can offer is 150Mbps at over twice the price of what you need. Surprisingly, we've left BT for Sky and have what 75Mbps for the price BT were offering new customers for 50Mbps.

Glad its done, I can actually conduct work Skype calls with a certain degree of confidence that I won't be cut off halfway through. I don't think it would have been done for a long time if our neighbour hadn't organised the vouchers. The replacement scheme and be found at this link Rural Gigabit scheme worth a look but does come with some limiting conditions.
 
mn87 said:
Had an engineer out at work (rural location) surveying for internet improvements he was saying Elon musk star link system is going to be a game changer in the near future. Beginning to roll out across Europe still a bit pricey but great speeds for rural communities
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He's started that as a pilot scheme not far from where we live, a beautiful place called The Black Valley (in 1976 it was the last place in Ireland to get electricity connected and it's still like stepping back in time visiting there, the best of fishing and hunting in an idyllic setting.)

Looking forward to when it's expanded as even though our local broadband supplier is a great entrepreneur and very quick to respond to any issues the old 5mbps is under a bit of strain for kids gaming or downloading stuff.
 
We had fibre optic broadband installed 6-7years ago way before anybody else in the county. I live way out in the forest . Here in Sweden the old copper net is all but gone. It cost about £1200 to have it installed. I get fast telephone, TV, and Internet for about £25 a month. The instalation fee was money well spent.
 
How many of you actually get your specified rate? We have a '26Gbps' connection but, when you check it's only 143Kbps. When queried the answer is that there's a fibre running up the A road but we have a single copper wire from there to here -1.5m- which feeds everybody, rather like the old 'party-line phone connection'! It's the same with the cell phone, 5G what's that? I never see more than 1 bar of signal and often zilch. The last time I complained it was 'we're working on the 4G transmitter'; really? I can't get 3G!!
 
@Davee Yours sounds like ours was before we got Fibre To The Premises (FTTP), we had Fibre to the junction box and copper to the house, it was so bad that around 1730 each day, when everyone got home from work, that the Internet stopped working. If you meet the criteria in the rural gigabit scheme linked in my previous post, it'll pay £1500 per domestic property and £3500 for any business properties. The scheme we joined in with was organised by a neighbour and we had enough houses involved that it didn't cost us a penny. There were quite a few hoops to jump through!

Just checked and sky reckon we're getting 60Mbps now.
 
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