ISP for rural location?

clv101

clv101

clv101

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New place is very rural, several miles from exchange so expecting around 2-3mbps on ADSL, that's what the neighbours get. I have an LTE router which provides a fairly solid 40mbps (but only 30GB a month for £15).

I'm looking for an unlimited ISP for large downloads, Internet radio etc. Is any ISP better than any other for long distance rural? Is it better to just get the cheapest as it'll be a poor service anyway, or is it better to get a better ISP so as not to compound the low line speed?

Thinking to go with PlusNet unless anyone has a better idea?
 
If you can schedule your downloads then Satellite will give you unlimited data overnight. Couple it with something else for the daytime (because Satellite sucks at nearly everything) Also look to see if anyone is offering a wireless service where you are. Also fibre speed is determined by distance from the cabinet (if fibre enabled) not the exchange so you may get better results. For example I get 120Kbps on ADSL compared to 40Mbps on fibre since they put a cabinet on our village green.
 
definitely check if they have put a fibre cabinet in or are going to soon, my village is in rural Norfolk our cabinet is 2 miles from the closest exchange but since I'm only 300 metres from the cabinet i'm currently on 80/20
 
What area is it? Could you share the postcode?

There are different schemes, organisations, fibre wifi solutions etc that people offer across the UK.

Have you also tried putting the address in here? https://www.dslchecker.bt.com/
 
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How much would it cost BT or whoever to lay fibre to you? You are likely spending six figures on the house so what is an extra few thousand?
 
WoodyUK said:
For a line that's only achieving 2-3Mbps it'd be such a distance it'll be a minimum of £30,000 at a base figure.

I'd personally be seeing which networks have the best coverage and then who will offer the most amount of data per month for least £.
If that's no good then two ADSL lines and split the devices over the two networks.
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I don’t know where you got that estimate from but Daisy will put a leased line into any property in the UK for £400/month incl. VAT. OK, it’s only 100Mb symmetrical and it’s still almost £15,000 over the 3-year minimum contract but it’s not £30,000.
 
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@clv101 How much are you budgeting for per month? What would be acceptable for you? It sounds like 4G may be the right option for you until the organic fibre rollout gets to you so it's probably just maximising data amount until then. EE aren't too bad for data on their fixed 4G services at the moment but lets hear what you want to spend.
 
EE is £90 for 300Gb list price at the moment I think. 30p/Gb so it's coming down as I seem to recall paying 50p/Gb when I subscribed to Vodafone and EE previously before they brought fibre to my village.
 
People laugh when I say that the first thing I will always do when moving is check the internet setup.
So easy to take for granted, but there are still pockets of the UK that have appalling speeds.
 
WJA96 said:
I don’t know where you got that estimate from but Daisy will put a leased line into any property in the UK for £400/month incl. VAT. OK, it’s only 100Mb symmetrical and it’s still almost £15,000 over the 3-year minimum contract but it’s not £30,000.
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Do Daisy swallow the ECCs/ECFs?
 
Caged said:
Yeah you're forgetting the ECC costs WJA.

Your best bet is a community fibre partnership.
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I was pretty convinced that was the total cost. They installed a 100/100 leased line into a friend’s farm in Lincolnshire and the farmhouse is half a mile from the main road. They already had a BT phone line but that was it. And it was £400/month on a 3-year minimum term contract. They could have had a 1-year contract that was £450/month and £5000 up front. That was the total cost. There were no other charges.
 
WJA96 said:
That’s a VERY good if the OP has coverage where they live.
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Three have 100GB for £20/m including the binge option for Netflix etc. so it doesn’t come off your total, i’m always wary of ‘unlimited’ offers without reading the small print.
 
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