DTMark
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Hi
I'm at the early stages of an investigation in our local area to try to gauge the demand for faster broadand, or even just broadband.
This is a local campaign, and will be featured in the village magazine, noticeboards etc. so posting on here is a bit of a long shot - I'm sure many people in Hampshire (80% of it being rural) have connectivity issues but this is specifically concerned with the areas of
Lower Froyle
Upper Froyle
Bentley
and local areas.
We live in Lower Froyle, which is 2.5km from the exchange, with a line length of 3680m (not sure how, seems very long as it's almost a straight line from what I can see) and our best broadband is a Three 3G modem running at 3Mbps. ADSL is useless (sub 2Mbps). I have discussed this with several ISPs who have all pointed to line quality, not length, being the issue here. Others' speeds are also abysmal and we have nowhere near the longest line.
The project will initially gather information from potential users via a link in the magazine/locally publicised, but if you live in one of the above areas or nearby I'd welcome you getting in touch, do drop me a message.
The neighbouring town of Alton is also poorly served for broadband as it has ADSL only (FTTC rollout complete, but as far as I can tell, no businesses in the town can have it, it's residential only, and even then it's patchy) so there's no guaranteed connectivity there either, and ADSL broadband speeds are abysmal on all the speed maps I have looked at. So in particular, if you're a business user in Alton struggling for broadband, that would be of interest.
This is for both business and personal use and should there be sufficient interest we would then look to approach providers and look at a site survey.
I have spoken to one such provider already who is in turn speaking to Hampshire council and to the organisers of the county wide campaign:
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/broadband
.. so if you're local, and have an interest, do register above and get in touch.
I'm at the early stages of an investigation in our local area to try to gauge the demand for faster broadand, or even just broadband.
This is a local campaign, and will be featured in the village magazine, noticeboards etc. so posting on here is a bit of a long shot - I'm sure many people in Hampshire (80% of it being rural) have connectivity issues but this is specifically concerned with the areas of
Lower Froyle
Upper Froyle
Bentley
and local areas.
We live in Lower Froyle, which is 2.5km from the exchange, with a line length of 3680m (not sure how, seems very long as it's almost a straight line from what I can see) and our best broadband is a Three 3G modem running at 3Mbps. ADSL is useless (sub 2Mbps). I have discussed this with several ISPs who have all pointed to line quality, not length, being the issue here. Others' speeds are also abysmal and we have nowhere near the longest line.
The project will initially gather information from potential users via a link in the magazine/locally publicised, but if you live in one of the above areas or nearby I'd welcome you getting in touch, do drop me a message.
The neighbouring town of Alton is also poorly served for broadband as it has ADSL only (FTTC rollout complete, but as far as I can tell, no businesses in the town can have it, it's residential only, and even then it's patchy) so there's no guaranteed connectivity there either, and ADSL broadband speeds are abysmal on all the speed maps I have looked at. So in particular, if you're a business user in Alton struggling for broadband, that would be of interest.
This is for both business and personal use and should there be sufficient interest we would then look to approach providers and look at a site survey.
I have spoken to one such provider already who is in turn speaking to Hampshire council and to the organisers of the county wide campaign:
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/broadband
.. so if you're local, and have an interest, do register above and get in touch.























