[QUOTE]A giant effigy of a BT Openreach van has been burned at a village bonfire in frustration over slow broadband speeds.
Templeton residents chose to turn up the heat on the telecommunications company as many are struggling with speeds of less than 1 megabit.
Roger Linden said villagers were told the problem would be looked at three years ago, but nothing has happened.
BT said Templeton in Devon is extremely rural, which made the rollout of fibre broadband "more challenging".
With a speed of 0.7 megabits per second, Mr Linden says - like many others in the village - he cannot stream anything and is only able to look at emails and occasionally browse the internet.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-41876557[/url]
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Guess I would be pissed if I had internet that slow
[quote]as many are struggling with speeds of less than 1 megabit.[/quote]
Christ.
[QUOTE]With a speed of 0.7 megabits per second, Mr Linden says - like many others in the village - he cannot stream anything and is only able to look at emails and occasionally browse the internet.[/QUOTE]
It's like my house except I can see bloody skyscrapers from my window.
I feel for these people. I'm trying to do a uni course but I gotta run through my 4G to access anything more than HTML and small images
If any company is worthy of a burning effigy it's BT. We just last week got fibre broadband, over four years later than they promised. And it's still 4x slower than the nearest city.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;52859282]Christ.[/QUOTE]
i remember when I had a 2mb connection
15 years ago
A lot of the villages in the UK arent up to date on much not just internet and I am really unsure why, some of them done even have gas to the house. Somethjng does need to happen to provide these places with better technology.
[QUOTE=Clive;52859434]A lot of the villages in the UK arent up to date on much not just internet and I am really unsure why, some of them done even have gas to the house. Somethjng does need to happen to provide these places with better technology.[/QUOTE]
I once watched a video and in it they explained that third world dictators only bother building their country's infrustructure from their major export, like oil or diamonds, to their ports and airports. They let everything else rot and the people are too poor and underequiped to revolt.
I'm not saying The UK is a third world dictatorship, but it sounds like our government is pulling similar tricks.
[QUOTE=Clive;52859434] some of them done even have gas to the house. Somethjng does need to happen to provide these places with better technology.[/QUOTE]
uhh, yeah?
isn't gas heating just like a rich persons dealio? most every house ive ever been into has electric ovens/water cylinders and heatpumps or a log burner as the fireplace. I literally only know of one person with gas and they're fairly well of :v:
the whole internet thing is weird as fuck though, I don't think i've had a 1mbit/s connection for over a decade!
I legitimatively fail to see why they haven't just been offered an alternative to the old phone cables..
Even a steady 3G connection would provide ~7.2Mbps 'ish, and the technology's gotta be affordable by now.
[QUOTE=MrBunneh;52859669]uhh, yeah?
isn't gas heating just like a rich persons dealio? most every house ive ever been into has electric ovens/water cylinders and heatpumps or a log burner as the fireplace. I literally only know of one person with gas and they're fairly well of :v:
the whole internet thing is weird as fuck though, I don't think i've had a 1mbit/s connection for over a decade![/QUOTE]
Funnily enough gas used to be people's main energy source. Wonder why.
I pay £40 a month for fucking 8mbit
[quote]BT said Templeton in Devon is extremely rural, which made the rollout of fibre broadband "more challenging".[/quote]
So? North and South Dakota are extremely rural and roughly the same size as the UK and have ~1.5 million people combined, as opposed to ~65 million. Both have tons of fiber to rural customers.
According to what I see, Templeton is about 6 miles from Tiverton, which has a population of 21,000 which would make it the 6th largest city in SD. My parents live 6 miles from a town of 700 and still have 30 Mbps fiber to the premises. It sounds like excuses.
[QUOTE=layla;52860055]I pay £40 a month for fucking 8mbit[/QUOTE]
Well you can start by telling them you're leaving so they give you the 25 pound deal like I did.
Cell phone internet would be a viable alternative. I use a 4G LTE modem with a Yagi antenna in an area with extremely poor signal and I’m able to pull down 20/10. I mean I am paying $75/mo for it but it’s unlimited and reliability is actually not bad. I’m able to stream HD video, play games with only 50ms of ping, and download big games in a reasonable time period.
These kind of threads always feel sad to read when I pay around 35$ for 250/250.
virgin isnt supported where i live and i get better speeds on 4g than my boradband
[QUOTE=MrBunneh;52859669]uhh, yeah?
isn't gas heating just like a rich persons dealio? most every house ive ever been into has electric ovens/water cylinders and heatpumps or a log burner as the fireplace. I literally only know of one person with gas and they're fairly well of :v:
the whole internet thing is weird as fuck though, I don't think i've had a 1mbit/s connection for over a decade![/QUOTE]
Gas is cheap, and is pretty much in every city in the UK. People who live in villages tend to have more money, because they have huge country houses that are incredibly old. They just need a little modernization, that's all.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;52859282]Christ.[/QUOTE]
I used to live with 250 KB/s for over 4 years, I know their pain and I'd gladly join in
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;52859282]Christ.[/QUOTE]
First got broadband in my town in 2005, it was 1mb (0.7 in reality) in 2006 I moved 5 minutes outside of town and it's still 1mb, 11 years on and less than 5km from where I started. This is the reality that we have to deal with. My desktop is starting to flip out because of Windows 10's increasingly bloated updates that end up failing to install after hogging bandwidth for an entire day anyway.I also waited an entire week to download Doom last year.
Back when I use to live in a village, I was getting speeds of 330kb/s. Internet speed was genuinely the biggest reason my household decided to move, since it was effecting work really badly.
Unfortunately, more rural areas never seem to be getting the proper infrastructure.
This sort of deal is why people move out of rural areas; most of what could be considered 'basic' 21st century needs aren't available. Like, take my old village; local school shut down, only a basic kiosk left instead of an actual grocery store and such. Not to mention, terrible access to public transport.
And all of this leads to a vicious cycle, where people move to more urban areas and have to pay a high rent for shit apartments, which leads to housing crisis, which leads to polticians wanting people to move to rural areas... but people won't do that, 'cause since the rural areas are being abandoned by modern society, there aren't any of the basic shit people need to get their daily life to work LIKE decent internet.
The government needs to incentivize people to move to rural areas by partially funding things like upgrading internet (through taxbreaks and such), securing basic public services in the area, making public transport reliable, and so on. Like, recently, one of the big fibre companies in Denmark started to roll out fibre cables in my current small village, which is great stuff!
[QUOTE=The bird Man;52861274]I used to live with 250 KB/s for over 4 years, I know their pain and I'd gladly join in[/QUOTE]
I wish I had the video still on youtube but one time I recorded my old internet connection's blazing fast 56KB/s (bytes not bits). 10 fucking years it took for then to put a proper line out to our rode despite plenty of customers and state money. You literally couldn't even get dialup because the phone lines were so bad that [I]landline[/I] calls were dropping constantly.
That's pretty insane, I don't understand why it's not been implemented yet. I get that it is a costly thing, but if one company were to put fiber in a village somewhere they would make their money back tenfold.
From the title I was expecting something like:
[t]https://i.imgur.com/ocCXA7a.png[/t]
[QUOTE=Clive;52861408]That's pretty insane, I don't understand why it's not been implemented yet. I get that it is a costly thing, but if one company were to put fiber in a village somewhere they would make their money back tenfold.[/QUOTE]
yes but their shareholders demand 1000 fold recouperation of their investments
[QUOTE=Mabus;52861281]First got broadband in my town in 2005, it was 1mb (0.7 in reality) in 2006 I moved 5 minutes outside of town and it's still 1mb, 11 years on and less than 5km from where I started. This is the reality that we have to deal with. My desktop is starting to flip out because of Windows 10's increasingly bloated updates that end up failing to install after hogging bandwidth for an entire day anyway.I also waited an entire week to download Doom last year.[/QUOTE]
We got lucky last year. I was on 500 KB/s for years but Imagine came into the area and now I usually get like 10 MB/s ~ on average. Sometimes have to deal with a cap though, but I haven't run into that for months now.
My experience with downloading Doom was the same. And those fucking updates... I uninstalled it as I didn't want to deal with that crap.
[QUOTE=The bird Man;52861274]I used to live with 250 KB/s for over 4 years, I know their pain and I'd gladly join in[/QUOTE]
Hey, that's me nowadays. And i live in Italy. Where is normal that the city outskirts cannot afford a decent internet provider and are doomed to use satellite internet or wireless internet.
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