Wedger Posted October 14, 2014 Report Posted October 14, 2014 Having suffered terrible broadband service from day one, and now it's worse!! I'm thinking of going satellite to cure this once and for all. Don't know too much about it but I hear a few rumours of great consistent download (and upload) speeds of 20 mb/s +. That's 35 times faster than I recorded last night. Anyone got any info, pointers, companies, costs etc.? Appreciated. Trev Quote
ChrisE Posted October 14, 2014 Report Posted October 14, 2014 You might want to look at this comparison site http://www.europasat.com/product-chooser/ The prices look fairly expensive to me especially with a data limit of not that much, especially if you download viddies However, as a happy BT fibre optic BB user, is that option open to you? Our speeds went from <1mb to 20mb+ with 50mb+ if you plug straight into the router rather than wireless. Quote
Brian Posted October 14, 2014 Report Posted October 14, 2014 Have you got the option of Virgin? They've just upgraded to Upto 100Mb and I'm consistently getting 49Mb download and 6.2Mb upload, wireless. Quote
Wedger Posted October 14, 2014 Author Report Posted October 14, 2014 Hi Chris, We've only just progressed from 'string and tin' and get 1mb plugged in and 540kb wireless. We're out in the stick 3 miles from the exchange. We had a problem 2 years back and complained daily. It took 3 weeks of call to get an engineer out who finally turned up the gain and we got a consistent 3mb. It lasted a few weeks until the next resident complained and it went down again. Quote
Wedger Posted October 14, 2014 Author Report Posted October 14, 2014 Sounds like Virgin Fibre Brian. our problem is the BT line and how it is managed. Quote
Rob Posted October 14, 2014 Report Posted October 14, 2014 Trev, this is something i have been thinking about too, as we dont use our home phone, and of course you dont need a home phone with Sat BB! Hardware can be expensive - but i expect you can get some deal if you sign up for long enough! loads of info online but i have not pursued this far: http://www.businessdorset.co.uk/news/businessnews/9766876.No_internet__Rural_Dorset_told_to_look_to_the_skies_for_satellite_broadband/ http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/satellite-broadband-is-it-now-a-serious-choice--1171534 http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/broadband/3435765/tooway-satellite-broadband-review-is-satellite-broadband-any-good/ http://www.choose.net/media/broadband/reviews/tooway/ http://www.choose.net/media/broadband/reviews/tooway/#checkavailability http://www.thinkbroadband.com/guide/satellite-broadband.html http://www.pcpro.co.uk/realworld/385483/cant-get-fast-enough-broadband-heres-what-to-do/3 Quote
niggle Posted October 14, 2014 Report Posted October 14, 2014 Why don't you talk to Graham "little sal" as this is his job! Graham Nash 1 Quote
ChrisE Posted October 14, 2014 Report Posted October 14, 2014 Ah, you're at the end of the BT line, the rate you get is inversely proportional to your distance from the exchange. Do you have cable anywhere near you as Virgin, etc can do you a deal on fibre, etc? We used to live miles from the exchange and the service was crap regardless, we now smugly live just up the road from the exchange. Quote
plaicemat Posted October 14, 2014 Report Posted October 14, 2014 I'm another happy BT user, currently getting around 75mbps. No idea when fibre optic is reaching a connection box near you? Quote
2006holmwood Posted October 14, 2014 Report Posted October 14, 2014 hi all, one thing to point out about BT fibre broadband it only goes to the nearest box from there to your house is ordinary cable got this info from BT engineer last week. Cheers Mick. Quote
plaicemat Posted October 14, 2014 Report Posted October 14, 2014 Absolutely correct, however, the closer you live to a street box, the better your speed. Luckily, I'm only about 100mtrs from a box so, happy days. Paul D 1 Quote
Jim Posted October 14, 2014 Report Posted October 14, 2014 We're with Virgin. They're OK I suppose. We get 20 meg ish. I tried my Son Steve's Virgin speed last week - - - - - 50 meg ish. Jim Quote
Paul D Posted October 15, 2014 Report Posted October 15, 2014 Our nearest cabinet is some half mile up the road, but still got an increase from 2Mbps to around 12 Mbps with BT Infinity. bt are rolling this out nationally, and there is an availability page somewhere telling you when it is coming to you. I am very pleased with the improvement we got as we are miles from the exchange. Quote
Guest Posted October 19, 2014 Report Posted October 19, 2014 Satellite broadband is specifically for people in your situation Trev. If you can BB via BT, Virgin, then do it that way. If you are outside of their coverage are then satellite BB is the way to go (although they are presently rolling out 4G, which may help in some cases). If you want to know more (prices etc). I can put people in touch with you. I dont do it myself but have fitted a few dishes for them and the clients have always been very pleased with the results. Quote
Duncan F (bathclaret) Posted October 19, 2014 Report Posted October 19, 2014 I've studied this closely Trevor as we too are served by pathetic ADSL speeds. My conclusion is that satellite BB is VERY expensive. It looks attractive - promises of fast speeds and equipment costs built into contracts a bit like mobile phones - but the data allowances are very low. You're almost bound to exceed them and some companies have some pretty strange rules about what happens when you do. The big issue, which seems to have affected all the different satellite providers, is they become a victim of their own success. Initially all is well and very quick, but as the capacity starts to load up, speeds drop through the floor. There aren't any guarantees of throughput rates, so you're left with an expensive contract and no way of exiting. Finally it's definitely worth noting that quoted speeds aren't everything. Some services are affected by the very slow latency of satellite networking ( every piece of data has to be beamed up to space and back down again, which takes a long time) - think astronaut conversations. So Skype might be a problem, Vodafone Suresignal for example won't work at all. Overall I decided satellite wasn't the right choice. Assuming you can't get fibre, it's better to just put up with rubbish BT service for a bit longer.... Duncan Quote
mrw Posted October 22, 2014 Report Posted October 22, 2014 There is possibly another option, there is a local company offering super fast broadband via a microwave link that may be suitable if your within their coverage. may be worth a look ? www.juice-broadband.com Quote
Jim Posted October 22, 2014 Report Posted October 22, 2014 There is possibly another option, there is a local company offering super fast broadband via a microwave link that may be suitable if your within their coverage. may be worth a look ? www.juice-broadband.com Twice the speed eh ? Quote
Newboy Posted October 22, 2014 Report Posted October 22, 2014 Twice the speed eh ? Not twice the speed, just doing everything twice. Quote
Paul D Posted October 31, 2014 Report Posted October 31, 2014 To see when fast BB is available try here http://mapping.dorsetforyou.com/superfast/availability/map Quote
Paul J Posted October 31, 2014 Report Posted October 31, 2014 im on Virgin, plus net before that- both good Quote
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