Green high speed broadband in the sticks!

Zico

Zico

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Sounds cool. As a "sticks" resident myself, I'd love to see something like this near me, but I don't imagine that'll happen anytime soon! The pricing structure seems really fair, but the unspecified "high initial outlay" on equipment at the home seems interesting - I wonder how much this ends up being! Are there any vfast customers on OcUK, I wonder!
 
gnetx said:
Sounds cool. As a "sticks" resident myself, I'd love to see something like this near me, but I don't imagine that'll happen anytime soon! The pricing structure seems really fair, but the unspecified "high initial outlay" on equipment at the home seems interesting - I wonder how much this ends up being! Are there any vfast customers on OcUK, I wonder!
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I use vFast but I have line of site with one of the main masts in the area (10mb down 2mb up).

vFast have been working with Kent County Council to bring high speed broadband to those areas not served in the usual fashion. The initial cost of such installations are likely to be partly funded by working with KCC.
 
Any one who wants BB in the stick needs to get together with their neighors and then there are several alternatives available.
 
Zarf said:
what is the latency like, and how many people are you potentially sharing the spectrum with?
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I don't know how many are connected through the same mast as myself but the contention is 30:1 for the 10mb down 2mb up OR 15:1 for 10mb down/up.

Pinging www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.244.71] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 212.58.244.71: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=55
Reply from 212.58.244.71: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=55
Reply from 212.58.244.71: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=55
Reply from 212.58.244.71: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=55
Reply from 212.58.244.71: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=55
Reply from 212.58.244.71: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=55
Reply from 212.58.244.71: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=55
Reply from 212.58.244.71: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=55
Reply from 212.58.244.71: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=55
Reply from 212.58.244.71: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=55

Ping statistics for 212.58.244.71:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 15ms, Maximum = 39ms, Average = 20ms
 
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