Had microwave broadband fitted - decent alternative to fibre...

Spit · 28 Jul 2014 at 21:13

Had this fitted this week, thought there might be some people interested. Seems its starting to rollout in various areas now. I like how its a separate system to the phone line. You have the dish on the roof, a wire and router plus power and that is it. It is nice and neat...

Speeds...

I am capped at 20meg download but they don't cap the upload. I am exploring the cost of a higher download. I have seen pings down at 15ms.

Streaming and gaming are fine. Thinking of removing my landline and just using this and my mobile going forward. Will test for a little longer first, fibre is not coming to where I live for years.

It cost £195 for installation including the equipment and £27.50 per month for unlimited.

Pretty pleased so far

Duke · 28 Jul 2014 at 21:15

Cable also doesn't need a phone line

Where does it aim to?

benjii · 28 Jul 2014 at 21:16

I've not really come across this before. Although, that upload speed is cracking.

bazaarboy · 28 Jul 2014 at 21:16

looks interesting, who is your service provider?

bsoltan · 28 Jul 2014 at 21:16

That's really good. If fibre hadn't come to my area this year I would have gone for something like that.

Will it work well all year round no matter the weather? My TV signal can drop out when its windy/rainy.

Mat · 28 Jul 2014 at 21:17

Interesting. How far are you from the other end of the link? Post a ping image on a foggy day

Janesy B · 28 Jul 2014 at 21:17

bazaarboy said:
looks interesting, who is your service provider?

Says on the screenshot.

I've been working with similar stuff for years, it can be great when it works but when you start to have problems it's a nightmare. Expect to have higher latency and drops in throughput if it hammers it down.

Glaucus · 28 Jul 2014 at 21:17

What's the company, my parent's are desperate for decent internet. Currently 0.8-1.1 they get, also in a village.

Mason- · 28 Jul 2014 at 21:19

Glaucus said:
What's the company, my parent's are desperate for decent internet. Currently 0.8-1.1 they get, also in a village.

Quickline.

Are you in Hull OP?

Spit · 28 Jul 2014 at 21:20

This is the company:

http://www.quickline.co.uk

There are quite a few popping up around the country.

I tested in the heavy rain and the ping was at 31ms. Download and upload stayed the same.

Spit · 28 Jul 2014 at 21:20

Mason- said:
Quickline.

Are you in Hull OP?

Near Driffield.

wazza300 · 28 Jul 2014 at 21:21

does it go ping when its done?

Mynight · 28 Jul 2014 at 21:26

That's a damn good upload speed. Wonder if their T&Cs prevent servers

Spit · 28 Jul 2014 at 21:27

This is my KC phone line broadband for reference...

I love having nearly 200 times faster upload lol.

I can currently swap between them as its 2 separate routers.

LOAM · 28 Jul 2014 at 21:48

How long to cook a chicken?

DampCat · 28 Jul 2014 at 22:03

That's not bad at all. The install is kinda pricey, i'd want to be sure that my monthly wasnt going to increase for a long time if i shelled out that much for an install.

Sliver · 28 Jul 2014 at 22:11

I'm more than happy sticking with fibre (pic below). I can see your microwave broadband being intermittent in bad weather just like a TV signal and that would annoy the hell out of me. Plus your download speed isn't that great either, but you do have a nice upload speed, so good for uploading YouTube vids and such, but lets be honest, most of what we do is downloading.

Spit · 28 Jul 2014 at 22:23

Sliver said:
I'm more than happy sticking with fibre (pic below). I can see your microwave broadband being intermittent in bad weather just like a TV signal and that would annoy the hell out of me. Plus your download speed isn't that great either, but you do have a nice upload speed, so good for uploading YouTube vids and such, but lets be honest, most of what we do is downloading.

Yeah, would be great to have fibre.

teaboy5 · 28 Jul 2014 at 22:32

Sliver said:
I'm more than happy sticking with fibre (pic below). I can see your microwave broadband being intermittent in bad weather just like a TV signal and that would annoy the hell out of me. Plus your download speed isn't that great either, but you do have a nice upload speed, so good for uploading YouTube vids and such, but lets be honest, most of what we do is downloading.

It will be fine in bad weather if the equipment is good. We use bigger equipment for PTP links to other sites in work and the current up time on them is over 365 days and it has never once dropped the connection with a 1ms ping between the sites. It supplies 1.4 Gbps of bandwidth to the site.

This should be the way it should rolled out to the country side. It's very very easy to setup so the likes of BT etc should have done it years ago.

You can even get smaller PTP boxes that will connect back depending on distance.

Sliver · 28 Jul 2014 at 22:39

teaboy5 said:
It will be fine in bad weather if the equipment is good. We use bigger equipment for PTP links to other sites in work and the current up time on them is over 365 days and it has never once dropped the connection with a 1ms ping between the sites. It supplies 1.4 Gbps of bandwidth to the site.

This should be the way it should rolled out to the country side. It's very very easy to setup so the likes of BT etc should have done it years ago.

You can even get smaller PTP boxes that will connect back depending on distance.

Ok. Thanks for the info, good to know if I ever move out into the sticks.