Broadband speed can add value to your house

geek1981

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?

I'm not sure what you mean by Satellite broadband and how expensive is it. But it is never going to match the speed and reliability of an FTTC (Infinity or Virgin Media) connection. After all most of the home entertainment (TV, Gaming etc) are all moving to Internet based services so high speed broadband is still a priority for me!

breadlinebetty

googler wrote: »

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......

Times change.....people no longer tolerate dial-up.

danielanthony

Most of the countryside doesn't have decent broadband, if you want a house in a rural location it is obvious that it wont have super fast broadband and I doubt the owners would vary the price because of this.

Its the same as saying that because you don't live in a big dirty over crowded town with lots of shops and facilities that you will expect less for your house.

However, if one street has super fast broadband and the street around the corner doesn't, then this may influence the price of a house.

googler

DRP wrote: »

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.

Would every viewer/buyer be smart enough to realise that, though?

If someone asked me a few years ago 'have you got broadband?', my answer would have to be no. I've got a standard phone line, which is capable of having broadband, and which now has.

trailingspouse

I've never heard of satellite broadband? But I certainly check broadband availability of any house I'm thinking of going after. In fact it's one of the first questions I ask.

googler

trailingspouse wrote: »

I've never heard of satellite broadband?

I assumed the folks above were talking about broadband provided by Sky, which just comes down the regular phone line, but no ....

http://www.broadbandwherever.net/faq.aspx

LeafGreen

I get around 1.3Mbps in my new house - adequate for general browsing but video streaming (iplayer etc) can freeze up at peak times, and it's a good job I don't really download very much. The Talk Talk estimate before I moved was between 1.5 and 3.5 Mbps, so take the bottom of the range the ISPs give and consider it optimistic! (I am about 4-5km from my exchange) So a bit disappointing really.

Worth checking if fibre optic is being rolled out to the areas you are looking at anytime soon. Mine is due on the 30th of this month and the FTTC cabinet is not too far from me :-) how soon I'll be able to get it and exactly how fast it will be are not entirely clear, but I'm hoping it won't be too long. I think they'll want an install fee and an extra tenner a month though :-(

As 4G gets going over the next year or few, this could solve the problems for people with little or no bandwidth at present.

If I was selling a house and it was connected to an FTTC cabinet then I would definitely be making sure it said "super-fast broadband enabled" or some-such in the ads.