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Broadband speed can add value to your house
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When we were buying we would have found some indication of broadband speed on estate agent particulars quite useful. We did look it up for each house we were considering viewing and also when viewing held up our mobiles to ascertain the signal.0
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Totally agree - I have walked away from perfectly pleasant houses simply because of the broadband or lack of it - we run our own business from home, broadband is as important to us as a reliable water supply.No longer a spouse, or trailing, but MSE won't allow me to change my username...0
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Melson_Nandela wrote: »Sure, I check I was good for 30mbps on Virgin on the house I liked.
I doubt I'd buy something on 500kpbs-1mpbs ADSL a long way from the exchange
Agreed - my house in Spain could only get dial-up (but I suppose I was lucky to get even that on the edge of a remote village in the mountains). It was an absolute PITA. I was so glad to come back to the UK and my 60mb broadband from Virgin Media!(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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I agree that slow broadband is a pain for those of us who work from home, but a £15K price difference?! Are people really walking away from houses rather than paying a couple of hundred quid for satellite broadband?0
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Ivana_Tinkle wrote: »I agree that slow broadband is a pain for those of us who work from home, but a £15K price difference?! Are people really walking away from houses rather than paying a couple of hundred quid for satellite broadband?
My thoughts exactly. When I first moved in, I used dial- up for a few years, then upgraded to broadband.
If I'd sold while I was using dial-up, would viewers have ignored my house, just because I hadn't taken the first step....?
Just because the house isn't currently set up for BB, doesn't mean it can't be......0 -
My thoughts exactly. When I first moved in, I used dial- up for a few years, then upgraded to broadband.
If I'd sold while I was using dial-up, would viewers have ignored my house, just because I hadn't taken the first step....?
Just because the house isn't currently set up for BB, doesn't mean it can't be......
i had assumed the article is talking about maximum broadband speed available due to physical limitations? ie. distance from the 'exchange' which has a big impact on speeds.0 -
One of the reasons our local Estate Agent trumpets any cable connection properties!0
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My thoughts exactly. When I first moved in, I used dial- up for a few years, then upgraded to broadband.
If I'd sold while I was using dial-up, would viewers have ignored my house, just because I hadn't taken the first step....?
Just because the house isn't currently set up for BB, doesn't mean it can't be......
if I viewed a house and the owner said they could only get dial up, I would walk away yes, its like only having an outside toilet to my generation.
and satellite broadband isn’t the same, it has good bandwidth but poor latency, (so once it gets going it seems fast, but its slow to respond).0 -
It matters to me, as when my daughter starts secondary school I would like her to be able to use the internet as a fast resource, without having to go down to the local library
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nomoneytoday wrote: »It matters to me, as when my daughter starts secondary school I would like her to be able to use the internet as a fast resource, without having to go down to the local library
Or do you really mean that you won't have to drive her to the local library
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