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Please Help: Broadband needed in Scotland

SticksMan

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Hi all

We are currently located in Kent but are moving family and business to Scotland.
The property has a landline but the line is not provisioned till 15th of October. We need Internet Access from the 10th October till the 15th, for business purposes. After this, We will have a landline based ISP (with a theoretical 40Mbps)

Please help, It is imperative we get the internet link (2way) up and running. We arrive on the 10th, have about 6 hours to get the link up and on the 11th it needs to be operational.

I have posted this in the Satellite Broadband forum, as I can't see any other way of getting Internet in this remote location: the 4G access will give us just enough to maintain a voice link, with a few interruptions here and there. I do not consider this to be sufficient. But if there are alternative, please let it be known!

thanks
 
If internet is vital maybe get starlink, and keep it as a backup (or the VDSL as a backup). Initially it could be setup yourself and made permanent later if I works
 
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For just 5 days I would try each mobile carrier on the roof and if one works turn the phone into a wifi hotspot.
 
For just 5 days I would try each mobile carrier on the roof and if one works turn the phone into a wifi hotspot.

Yes, that thought did cross my mind, but how do you test reliability and throughput without first setting up an network and use case?
 
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Someone should rent out Starlink rigs for temporary gigs.


Aren't they normally geolocked to the subscriber's location, though?

A farming neighbour bought one a year or so ago and ran into this problem. He set it up to try at home and when he then moved it to the farm office a couple of miles away it refused to work. I remember him cursing at the hoops he had to jump through to get it activated again.
 
Aren't they normally geolocked to the subscriber's location, though?

A farming neighbour bought one a year or so ago and ran into this problem. He set it up to try at home and when he then moved it to the farm office a couple of miles away it refused to work. I remember him cursing at the hoops he had to jump through to get it activated again.

They have a setup for RVs

Immediately access high-speed, low-latency internet on an as-needed basis at any destination where Starlink provides active coverage. £85/mo with a one-time hardware cost of £449.

 
They have a setup for RVs

Immediately access high-speed, low-latency internet on an as-needed basis at any destination where Starlink provides active coverage. £85/mo with a one-time hardware cost of £449.



Got you, looks like they charge a higher price for the ability to roam. My guess is that my neighbour just got the cheaper fixed location deal.
 
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It isn't difficult to change the service address if you are on the fixed plan though. It isn't designed to be moved about - that is what roaming is for - but if you are moving it from one fixed location to another then this is easily achievable.
 
It isn't difficult to change the service address if you are on the fixed plan though. It isn't designed to be moved about - that is what roaming is for - but if you are moving it from one fixed location to another then this is easily achievable.

All I can say is that our neighbour was tearing his hair out trying to deal with Starlink after he moved his setup a couple of miles and it stopped working. No idea how long he spent trying to get them to re-activate it, but from what he said it was far from being an easy process. This was around a year ago, maybe they've improved their support since then.
 
Please help, It is imperative we get the internet link (2way) up and running. We arrive on the 10th, have about 6 hours to get the link up and on the 11th it needs to be operational.
This sounds like a lack of planning on your side - you've planned to shift your business to a remote area without planning beforehand what you're going to do for connectivity, and now it's "imperative" that we all help you, for free, with a week to go, and without basic information like the location ("Scotland" is huge).
 
Life can very easily throw us curved balls and leave us without enough time to get things sorted. I was made redundant a bit over 30 years ago. Meant that within 4 weeks I had get another job, just to pay the mortgage. Ended up moving 450 miles away to get a job, followed by a move of house, my wife leaving her job and finding another one, etc. Not easy to plan for things like this.
 
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