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

Sliver said:
Ok. Thanks for the info, good to know if I ever move out into the sticks. ;)
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Not sure why you're winking. But the tech is there and it's good.

The bandwidth will be limited depending on the carrier. If its a small ISP they could only be pushing 100mb - 1GB to the tower, as they would be taking it from a leased line somewhere in a town or city.
 
This sort of thing being available is a godsend. The sort of places I'm looking at are generally out of the way and pathetic as it sounds to most people the internet connection is something I genuinely worry about :p

Having this in the area would make that all go away though!
 
Hmm, interesting. Despite being in the very centre of Bristol and not that far out at work and home respectively neither have cable still. I can only put that down to the cost of supplying it to grade listed streets.

At work we have terrible 5mb internet and we use our phones and 4G to upload but this looks good. Is it available anywhere else?
 
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Had a similar project in our village around 3 years ago, there was council provided fibre to the local primary school which was used by an almighty number of 2 computers, so they boosted that signal around the village and popped an antenna on customer's houses. Having a a range of 1mb to 2mb for ADSL for the entire village, the solution was a massive hit and everyone got a nice 20mb up and down for £20 a month, of which £3 went to the school which was great as we were injecting money back in to the school

The solution was rock solid, super reliable and fast, and I was 950m direct line of sight. The only downside was they could never get their VOIP solution live so once FTTC hit the village, most people went back to the mainstream providers.

It's still live now and the project is being taken over by Virgin Media next year as part of a 8 village super fast project, expecting to squirt us 1gbps
 
The install isn't terrible when you consider that quality parts have been used (thick mast, proper welded bracket etc., not that cheap pressed crap), it's got what looks like ~£100 of radio and antenna on it, and someone had to put it up.
 
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The install isn't terrible when you consider that quality parts have been used (thick mast, proper welded bracket etc., not that cheap pressed crap), it's got what looks like ~£100 of radio and antenna on it, and someone had to put it up.
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He was here most of the morning making sure all was ok. There is also a decent router as well.
 
We have similar at work - were going to go with a leased line, but were quoted £10k+ install, with a 3 month lead time, whereas the guys we went with (Metronet) did it for £500 the following Monday!

Have nothing bad to say about it, we get 20mb up/down and I can't remember a single drop-out or bandwidth issue (other than planned maintenance) in the 2 years we've had it.

IIRC, it's available within a 10km radius of a transmitter, and supports up to 2gb!

We pay ~£500/month, but get a guaranteed 20mb and 4 hour fix
 
I'll stick my fibre for now, although would have loved that when I was stuck out literally in the middle of nowhere with 512Kbps or less just 2 years ago.

On this at the moment:


Speeds not amazing, but more than enough for me. Never feel or see any slow down. Did have 70/19, but was in a horrible area. Moved recently to the speed above in the countryside :)

Speedtest always says 1ms ping as well for some reason.
 
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Wow i've never seen this before. Is this basically satellite broadband? Would be ideal if someone doesn't want a home line and i'm really impressed with the speeds.
 
Technically it works similarly to satellite broadband in that the transmissions are via microwaves, but it doesn't involve the use of satellites so its hard to make further comparison :p

Use Wiki, i am sure that will have articles on both :)
 
Nice, I didn't know this was available to residential customers and for so cheap. I have fibre but out of interest is there anywhere to see what areas it is available in?
 
I work for an ISP who provide in this manner. It's very refreshing not having to work with BT.
We cover Derbyshire if anyone is interested? w3z.co.uk
 
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