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Advice needed.

Hi There,

I live in a village which about 1/3 of the households can get broadband due to the quality of the line into the village. It would appear that myself or my neighbour opposite cannot get DSL Broadband, despite both neighbours to both sides being able to recieve 512k successfully consistantly. Highly annoying, but we have been told broadband will not be avaliable to us until BT replace about 3 miles of copper cable which is of a very poor quality - no plans are in place for this to happen.

I am sick of dial-up connections, I am a Uni student and I require a decent connection for research on my assignments and projects, 56k is just so slow that it really affects my research.

I have been looking at alternatives to ADSL, but refuse to pay BT for ISDN. I have even looked into the cost of a leased line, but this works out extremely expensive unless I can get a lot of users to share it, which I cannot.

Satellite broadband seems the only way for me to go, there are no alternatives to me (RF or Powerline). I am not that much of a heavy user, maybe 10GB per month. I do not play online games, but just general web browsing and the occasional file download (MP3's mainly).

I realise satellite is nowhere near as good as DSL, and it really does chafe that I have to pay at least twice the amount as my nextdoor neighbour to recieve a inferior product, but if it's the only way I can do things then I guess I will have to accept that fact as annoying as it is.

I have never used a satellite based internet service before, and I hear a lot of people saying they are a waste of time? Is it really *that* bad for browsing? I'm thinking of Centre Point's 512k or 768k service or possibly AVC Broadband. AVC have told me their fair usage policy for 512k is around 20GB per month, which would be fine for me, I have a Sky dish installation with a quad LNB so it should be all set to go, apart from the PC card & coaxial install.

I really need some realistic comments about the performance of Sat broadband for general browsing.


Cheers.
 
Somewhere in this forum I read about a small number of people in a village who obtained BB by asking BT to install a copper line to their house, which was supplied at a cost ot of £75.
It does no harm to pester BT.
John
 
crash79 said:
Somewhere in this forum I read about a small number of people in a village who obtained BB by asking BT to install a copper line to their house, which was supplied at a cost ot of £75.
It does no harm to pester BT.
John

I have pestered BT, they have basically given me two options if I want Broadband:

1) Move
2) Pay them circa £1.5Million to replace 3-4 miles of faulty cable


BT are less than useless, but I'm sure most people on this board realise this!!
 
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Why don't you ask your neighbours if they'll let you share their ADSL connection (I know I'm possibly ignoring the ISP's T&Cs) via a wireless link ? Maybe you can help pay for it to sweeten the pill. :)
 
Bob2002 said:
Why don't you ask your neighbours if they'll let you share their ADSL connection (I know I'm possibly ignoring the ISP's T&Cs) via a wireless link ? Maybe you can help pay for it to sweeten the pill. :)

I was going to say the same thing offer to pay towards the bulk of the wireless router (mimo would be a wise choice) and if they are with a decent ISP you aint got bandwidth limits to worry about and a fairly good speed if you do all the downloading at agreed times between you or even share what you download between each other might save things being downloaded twice.

One other route to take is ofcom if you have it in writing about the faulty copper them admiting to a fault and refusing to fix when its in their responsability it should be covered some where.
 
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