Faster Internet in Rural Areas - Will it happen?

nilrem_2

GlynD wrote: »

I'm rural. 3 miles from the nearest town. I get 32mb fibre optic in a village of 3,500 - so it is happening.

In fairness a population of 3500 is a big village, actually a very big village!
The exchange that we are connected to serves just 582 residential premises and it covers several villages!

If our village had even one tenth of the population of yours I would have more hope of getting faster BB.

GlynD

nilrem wrote: »

In fairness a population of 3500 is a big village, actually a very big village!
The exchange that we are connected to serves just 582 residential premises and it covers several villages!

If our village had even one tenth of the population of yours I would have more hope of getting faster BB.

Yes you would. I believe though that the advent of fibre optic availability means that even the smaller villages and rural areas will be getting coverage. I'm quite happy to be wrong but obviously for your sake I hope I'm right. I was wrong about the area I live in - I thought we'd never get high speed connections and was gobsmacked when I was told we could.

Itismehonest

nilrem wrote: »

In fairness a population of 3500 is a big village, actually a very big village!
The exchange that we are connected to serves just 582 residential premises and it covers several villages!

If our village had even one tenth of the population of yours I would have more hope of getting faster BB.

Same here. Less than 30 homes spread over more than 1500 acres. The nearest 'big' village with the PO has 250 voters.
Not much hope of being at the top of the 'to do' list.

It, apparently, costs too much to put most of the overhead cabling underground round here so cable is less than likely. Gas & mains water hasn't found it's way here, either, for much the same reason. We did get mains electricity in time to celebrate 1970, though

GlynD

Itismehonest wrote: »

Same here. Less than 30 homes spread over more than 1500 acres. The nearest 'big' village with the PO has 250 voters.
Not much hope of being at the top of the 'to do' list.

It, apparently, costs too much to put most of the overhead cabling underground round here so cable is less than likely. Gas & mains water hasn't found it's way here, either, for much the same reason. We did get mains electricity in time to celebrate 1970, though

You're never going to see cable in these areas. Virgin own all the cable and they won't lay new ones unless it's a viable financial proposition. BT are rolling fibre optic out countrywide at the moment however and budget companies such as the one I use are able to make use of the cabling too.

don9999

Unfortunately, I don't think that 'population' or 'residential premises' are of much significance to whether you will get fast broadband.

I live in a town whose exchange is Market 3 (I think there are about 7 providers).
Per SamKnows, there are 20,268 residential premises, and 905 non-residential premises.
However the best we have here is ADSLMax.

No BT Infinity, and significantly, no plans by BT to introduce it any time soon - certainly not in the next year,, as it's not mentioned in BT's latest rollout plans, despite many other local (and often much smaller towns) are!

'I' live on the outskirts of the town, so am 'lucky' (?) to achieve a maximum speed of around 1Mbps. Watching iplayer is almost impossible.

I even asked BT 'how' they determined who would get Infinity. I would have understood if they prioritised locations where there lots of connections, thereby maximising their potential income stream. However, they were unable to tell me. It seems they are happily ignoring 'my' large town, whilst installing BT Infinity to many other much smaller towns around here.

I just can't work it out :-(

We do have Virgin cable in town, but it was only ever installed to about a 1/3 of the town, so no option of having that either.

I am NOT happy.......

nilrem_2

Itismehonest wrote: »

Same here. Less than 30 homes spread over more than 1500 acres. The nearest 'big' village with the PO has 250 voters.
Not much hope of being at the top of the 'to do' list.

It, apparently, costs too much to put most of the overhead cabling underground round here so cable is less than likely. Gas & mains water hasn't found it's way here, either, for much the same reason. We did get mains electricity in time to celebrate 1970, though

And I thought our village was behind the times! Small though it is we do have mains water though not sewers nor Gas.

Most of the BT cables here were actually put underground several years ago but it is delivered to individual houses via a pole, for example one pole outside our house delivers 4 cables to 4 houses but the pole is fed from an underground cable.

rzlosty

Glad ive got a bit of discussion going here

Ive looked on my line and im getting this:

Line attenuation (Down/Up):60.3 dB / 31.5 dB

Not sure what most of it means but hey ho! lol

I think the fastest option of faster BB is to just move house?

Will

penrhyn

A 60 db line should give you around 3Mbps.

nilrem_2

These are my stats

Downstream 4032kbps
upstream 448kbps
line atten 52db (up 29.5db)
Noise margin down 6.3db (up 16db)

My speed varies from 1.27Mb/s to 2.90Mb/s

rzlosty

My speedtest:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1959878783.png

Nothing running in the background or anything just one PC with a web browser.