[jaykay]

Bucketman, for me the satellite broadband was £500 for the installation and then is £20 a month. For that I can watch iPlayer but not play online games (schucks  )

Vodafone do a gizmo (SureSignal) that takes a broadband signal and gives you a mobile signal in your house. The range isn't amazingly far but at least it's a signal. Still means there's not one in the fields and buildings. Don't know if other mobile providers do them too?

[bazzais]

No one can offer you a faster speed than any one else if you are on the limit.  I go with BT as your talking to the horses mouth in an unbundled exchange.

I had a quote for a leasedline - same as £xx,xxx a year - and that was per year  and they couldnt promise a fater speed than I have now.

Crazy as I have two lines in the house - cant see why they dont send twice as much down over all the available cable and split it when its up here - the line up here is thicker and has more strands tan my electric cable.

They just upgraded my exchange - and althought they have been blaming my 1/4 broadband on the lines - now they have upgraded me I have 3/4 meg!!    Cant quite watch iPlayer - but at least my windows update on Tuesday doesn't take me 3 days.

All this talk of getting people online and into the loop is not working - we sold off our infrastructure years ago - all the government can do is talk - unless there is profit - companies wont install our broadband -and meanwhile we have to submit taxc returns online, we have to reasearch legislaation online, we have to watch tv online, we have to catch up online.  - well Give me the broadband - and I'll earn a frickin living online - just give me some kind of descent connectivity.  Wouldnt be as bad if I could get wireless - but as you all probably know with experience - we get no speeds in the country - we are left out the loop.

[bazzais]

I am pretty sure I made an amplifier ffrom mplins when I was ten from radio shack - get some boosters in these excahnges and ramp up our networks - not rocket science.

[jaykay]

No one can offer you a faster speed than any one else if you are on the limit

if you're getting a system via telephone line yes - if you're getting a satellite system, not so.
Satellites aren't as fast as good cabled systems nor can you load a lot of data - but they are way better, I'm finding, than a bad or non-existent cabled system!

[Fronhaul]

It is worth talking to Zen internet if you hate BT as much as I do.  They now do voice lines as well and from the speed BT Openreach (no connection of course with BT just the same logo on the vans and I am trying not to snarl) now mends our line it is pretty clear there is a nice penalty clause in action somewhere.  I think one or two other providers also have BT tied up in penalty clauses from what I have heard.

[FiB]

It is worth talking to Zen internet if you hate BT as much as I do.  They now do voice lines as well and from the speed BT Openreach (no connection of course with BT just the same logo on the vans and I am trying not to snarl) now mends our line it is pretty clear there is a nice penalty clause in action somewhere.  I think one or two other providers also have BT tied up in penalty clauses from what I have heard.

WILL DO! Havnt tried them, Thanks.  I think I might be blacklisted - cause when I go onto a price comparison site and then click through...it always results in 'sorry we cannot provide a service to this postcode'!!!  Or may be they are just more ethical about taking money for a service they cannot provide.. surely not?!!


There, Ive sent this thread to the Chairman of Openreach.

[tizaala]

Even third world toilets like Ghana can provide internet, ask any scammer....

[Fowgill Farm]

We live in hope!
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-18867017
 
Bet it don't come near our house !
Mandy

[jaykay]

There, Ive sent this thread to the Chairman of Openreach.

  Seriously?

[Mickey]

I'm close to Manchester yet our broadband with BT was at best 2Mb/s then slipped to 0.7 and finally 0.113 last week.  BT told me there was nothing wrong and that I was getting 8Mb/s which was a complete nonsense. Anyway, some find chap in India kept phoning me back every 48hrs and telling me I was getting the 8 and I'd say 'Not so' so he would say 'Okay what he did usually irked but he'd try something else, give it 24hrs to work'  Now after a week I suddenly find that I am getting almost 6.7Mb/s, where did that come from? It looks like my line has been capable of 6Mb/s for awhile yet until the line developed a fault they just left me struggling with 2Mb/s. 

Seems to me they are just not up to the job.