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Hi folks,
Stumbled upon this site when looking for details on VM's expansion plans for rural areas till 2015/16 ish.

Anyway the question, WHO do I contact (ie nag) to get the area I am moving too put on some sort of 'list' to find out a proposed date.

Going from consistant 50MB to 3MB. so sad. I am a big downloader Iplayer, VMplayer, Lovefilm all in HD if available SKY have turned around and told me that I can't have there service of on-demand because my speed is not great enough.

Moving from Dartford area to Folkestone but CT18 has no cable in the whole postcode and its a BIG postcode. Central Folkestone HAS 100MB but outside in the villages it does not.

Nick

PS Want to play Star Wars Old republic in November not sure 3mb enough.....:(
 
If you're not already on Virgin's rollout plan then sadly they probably won't put you on it in the future; their expansion plan for an additional 500,000 homes is, in the grander scheme of things, a drop in the ocean.

The good news is that Star Wars The Old Republic, being a multiplayer game, is not dependent upon superfast download speeds to function. Multiplayer games need a fairly low but stable upload speed and fast latency to function properly. Latency is the only real difficulty as it can be affected by a lot of things, both local, remote and ISP related.
 
Not sure whether they're in Folkestone, but V-Fast WISP (fixed wireless) are in Kent and are upgrading their transmitters I understand to offer up to 100Mpbs, I believe. It requires line of sight, and an aerial installation (probably on your TV pole): otherwise installation is similar to cable i.e. cable router, linked by ethernet cable (part of installation) to the external receiver.
 
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Hi folks,
Stumbled upon this site when looking for details on VM's expansion plans for rural areas till 2015/16 ish.

Anyway the question, WHO do I contact (ie nag) to get the area I am moving too put on some sort of 'list' to find out a proposed date.

Going from consistant 50MB to 3MB. so sad. I am a big downloader Iplayer, VMplayer, Lovefilm all in HD if available SKY have turned around and told me that I can't have there service of on-demand because my speed is not great enough.

Moving from Dartford area to Folkestone but CT18 has no cable in the whole postcode and its a BIG postcode. Central Folkestone HAS 100MB but outside in the villages it does not.

Nick

PS Want to play Star Wars Old republic in November not sure 3mb enough.....:(

Ahh Folkestone isnt too far away from us!

Problem that you'll find with a lot of Kent is it isnt cabled. Here in Canterbury none of it is, closest cabled area to us is Ashford, and then even they havent got a large cable area. A lot of the old estates around Ashford were cabled back in the days of NTL, all the new estates werent cabled when they were built.

If its any consolation, I played PS3 & Xbox online on a connection of just under 1MB in outer-Ashford with no problems so I would imagine that 3MB would not give you any problems.

Your exchange not enabled for ADSL2+?
 
thank you all.
That V-Fast service looks good, does not cover the postcode I am in YET. but i'll badger them, surrounding area yes, but my village no.

I don't think the exchange is adsl2+ BT Sky et el offered only 1.5mb max, VM say they could double it to 3mb min. but I am lucky to get that with 2 desktops, 3 laptops, 3 phones not inc PS3 X-Box etc.

The local exchange is not even covered by the policy that allows other suppliers to keep there own equipment in the exchange. its not the arse end of nowhere.

Thank you all again.
N.
Just cos you live in the countryside does not mean you don't want fast BB.

For Info already looked at satalite and deemed to expensive for performance.
 
Our phone line supports similar speeds to yours (1.5Mbps, yet the Virgin National estimator says 3.5Mbps - it's basically completely wrong since the 1.5Mbps estimate comes from the known line profile for the poor quality line at this specific address, so it's just an overestimate to win business as there's no way they can get more than 1750kbps down the line since that's the IP profile no matter who it's with)

Although it won't help with the gaming (latency 50 to 80ms) we do get fairly slow (compared to cable, anyway) but at least usable broadband speeds via 3G (5.4Mbps is about average) which can do VOIP and video streaming perfectly well. So if the WiFi option isn't available, and you don't have the patience to wait forever for stuff to download over ADSL, and if you're near a 3G transmitter, and it isn't congested (lots of ands there) it might be worth looking at.
 
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thank you all.
That V-Fast service looks good, does not cover the postcode I am in YET. but i'll badger them, surrounding area yes, but my village no.

Certainly worth asking: I think the postcode/localities covered for WISPs is usually out of date/incomplete and it's not an exact science! The bugbear will be if hills, woodlands or taller buildings are in the way of line of sight to the transmitter.
 
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