UK How to go about adding a secondary router/wifi hub

[James]

I am in a rural location too, fibre to premises is being rolled out in the countryside before the cities.
a year ago it was dire, ftc gave me 30 in theory but on a good day 15 was more realistic and it would often drop out for a few min or a whole day.

 

[Rockingit]

I am in a rural location too, fibre to premises is being rolled out in the countryside before the cities.
a year ago it was dire, ftc gave me 30 in theory but on a good day 15 was more realistic and it would often drop out for a few min or a whole day.

Gigaclear have been claiming to be 'on their way' for about four years now.....

 

[James]

Where and when we're building Ultrafast Full Fibre broadband

Openreach is committed to being as open as we can about our Fibre to the Premises build programme and we regularly publish our roll-out plans..

www.openreach.com

 

[Rockingit]

TWENTY years ago I was working in Singapore. Every.single.last.new.build (anything) was having fibre laid to it, defacto. We are so behind in this country it's unreal, and we wonder why we're being overtaken by practically everybody else.

 

[plugsandsparks]

Daughter lives in ROI deep in the countryside, has fibre to home from Voda, 500M download but it does drop when busy. I was blown away... i have FTTC and 80M is a good day. @Rockingit bet 4G would give a better upload

 

[nicebutdim]

TWENTY years ago I was working in Singapore. Every.single.last.new.build (anything) was having fibre laid to it, defacto. We are so behind in this country it's unreal, and we wonder why we're being overtaken by practically everybody else.

This house was built 6 years ago as part of a new development. I was stunned to learn that Openreach were providing copper connections, despite being in the process of upgrading much of the town to fibre. Broadband speeds are decent with 1,000/200 being available, although we have a 'basic' fibre deal at just over 100mbps - provides what we need at a reasonable price.

My parents could avail of a maximum 3mbps until very recently and until a couple of years ago it was 2mbps. They're within several hundred yards (as the crow flies) of an openreach fibre cabinet, but instead are connected by copper to the exchange 3 miles away and openreach will not offer connection to that cabinet, despite it serving only a very small rural community.

Last year a rural broadband initiative finally reached them and offer up to 1gbps on their service, which is now available at reasonable rates only slightly more expensive than I pay on Openreach network. Despite this service, Openreach still have no plans to upgrade from those long copper lines.

It seems as though planning and roll out of fast internet connections has been effective, yet I fail to understand why existing networks could not have been utilised. I guess there will be factors involving Openreach license terms and guarantees given to providers who have rolled out new networks. Beyond my pay grade, unfathonable and likely involving some bonkers reasoning, but it will be a Godsend to those running businesses in rural areas or to those starved of readily available moving picture pornography.

 

[Rockingit]

Daughter lives in ROI deep in the countryside, has fibre to home from Voda, 500M download but it does drop when busy. I was blown away... i have FTTC and 80M is a good day. @Rockingit bet 4G would give a better upload

Nah, mobile signal is carp as well!!

 

[plugsandsparks]

Nah, mobile signal is carp as well!!

Starlink | Specifications

View technical specifications for our Starlink hardware

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[Rockingit]

Starlink | Specifications

View technical specifications for our Starlink hardware

www.starlink.com

You’ve seen the subscription fee??

 

[James]

£500 equipment charge and £75 per month.
certainly not cheep
ignoring the equipment cost, about £400 per year more than my 500Mbit fibre connection