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Caleycom seem to cover your address and could get 50Mbps
Interesting, thanks. I'm in a bit of a dip, so not certain that I would get a good signal from the direction it seems to come from (Cairm Mon Earn mast I think). Then again, I get a reasonable TV signal from similar location, so depends on the frequency I guess.
£40/m + installation...so I'll maybe explore further if the 4G route doesn't work out.
 
Interesting, thanks. I'm in a bit of a dip, so not certain that I would get a good signal from the direction it seems to come from (Cairm Mon Earn mast I think). Then again, I get a reasonable TV signal from similar location, so depends on the frequency I guess.
£40/m + installation...so I'll maybe explore further if the 4G route doesn't work out.
Definitely. If they say you can get 50 Mbps then maybe the dip you're in is not such a big problem. This is encouraging.
TV signal is a bit different in that it uses (for the most part) lower frequencies which go farther and better.
 
Caleycom do have gear on one of those masts, they ran a service for one of our customers via there. These are the masts on the other side of the Slug Road road from the tall Durris TV mast on Mongour, and nowhere near as high. Can you see the Cairn-mon-Earn masts from your house?
 
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Caleycom do have gear on one of those masts, they ran a service for one of our customers via there. These are the masts on the other side of the Slug Road road from the tall Durris TV mast on Mongour, and nowhere near as high. Can you see the Cairn-mon-Earn masts from your house?
Just had a response from Caleycom an hour ago... looks like trees are going to be an issue. Still reviewing.
4G not so bad as that mast is in a difference direction.
 
Anyway you could install CellMapper app on a phone and maybe walk (or drive) those local roads? The more data you can collect about the local masts, the better your options, especially higher frequency bands and the spectrum available to each band.

There are basically only 4 operators in the UK - 3, EE, o2 and vodafone, with all the rest using one or more of those networks. You can get PAYG cheap SIM cards for most of them. The mast you showed seems to serve all 4 operators.

Smarty for Three
EE PAYG
giffgaff for o2
voxi for vodafone
 
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