UK rural community lays their own fibre cables, jumps from 500kb to gigabit broadband - Polidicks

[img]http://imgkk.com/i/v3hp.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21442348[/url] [quote]How fast is your home broadband? Seventy to 80 Mbps if you're one of the few with the very fastest fibre broadband services? Perhaps 10Mbps if you've got an average connection, maybe under 2Mbps if you live some miles from your nearest exchange. So how would you fancy a 500Mbps download scheme? That is what I've seen on Harry Ball's quite ancient computer - not in the heart of London but in a village in rural Lancashire. Arkholme is hardly a teeming metropolis but Harry is one of the first local residents to be hooked up to the B4RN community broadband network. After deciding that they were never likely to get a fast broadband connection from one of the major suppliers, a group of local people across this sparsely populated area decided that sitting around moaning about it was not an option. Instead they began a DIY effort, digging channels across the fields and laying fibre optic cables.[/quote]

I'd like to know how much all this cost. Never mind didn't read the article. :/

I should do that. Internet speeds here suck balls

[quote]That is what I've seen on [b]Harry Ball's[/b] quite ancient computer[/quote] I read that as "Hairy Balls" and I thought it was a joke name for a second.

Can I have some? Virgin Media is terrible here in Cardiff.

[QUOTE=theblah12;39586347]Can I have some? Virgin Media is terrible here in Cardiff.[/QUOTE] Can we all have some? :dance:

[QUOTE=smurfy;39586277][img]http://imgkk.com/i/v3hp.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] A* ad placement BT, would select again

[QUOTE=leach139;39586391]A* ad placement BT, would select again[/QUOTE] Hey, if they switch back to BT they can get a £50 gift card for Sainsburys, well worth it.

I'm always bragging to my friends about how much faster my internet is than theirs. I get 5Mbps.

[I]30 a month??[/I] We pay that much for a [I]5 meg line![/I] TDS literally won't upgrade anything out here because they're the only provider. And the new place I'm moving into will have a 30 meg line, for 60 a month. FFFFFF-

How long before gypos steal all that wire they're robbing everything out in the wilds someones iron gate and the hinges got stolen

LoLz, on speedtest in UK my max download speed is only 1.7 Mbps. Sigh...

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/HuqHd6K.jpg[/IMG] Fuck you Australia.

[QUOTE=Leg of Doom;39587148]How long before gypos steal all that wire they're robbing everything out in the wilds someones iron gate and the hinges got stolen[/QUOTE] why would anyone want to steal fiber that has little to no resale value?

[QUOTE=Toyokunari;39587209]LoLz, on speedtest in UK my max download speed is only 1.7 Mbps. Sigh...[/QUOTE] That's nothing I'm lucky to get 700kbps on a good day.

[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;39586293]I'd like to know how much all this cost. Never mind didn't read the article. :/[/QUOTE] A hell of a lot of money. Just a simple division puts their costs at over 5000 pounds/km, which is around 15,000$ / mile. For isolated homes, that's just not gonna work. And that's with zero costs for buying land to dig up.

and im here in lithuania just complaining for 3mbps internet :| so now you can download God Of War 3 from PSN in just a hour

[img]http://www.speedtest.net/result/2508577290.png[/img] 10/1 for ~22 euros plus cable tv...no cap, no throttling, fuck yeah 3rd world internet

holy cuntfuck

paying 75$ a month for 50 down and 8 up.

Is that strange that a small town gets fiber? I live in a very small town with only 500 inhabitants and we are soon getting fiber, that's how it is with the rest of Sweden too. Bigger towns with maybe a thousand inhabitants have had fiber for a long time already.

[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;39587228]why would anyone want to steal fiber that has little to no resale value?[/QUOTE] It gets stolen a lot gypos think it's shielded copper they just rob anything that could be metal.

[IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/2508598156.png[/IMG] I think i've got nothing to complain about with normal ADSL cable, we get fibre cable this or next year tough.

[QUOTE=johan svensk;39587408]Is that strange that a small town gets fiber? I live in a very small town with only 500 inhabitants and we are soon getting fiber, that's how it is with the rest of Sweden too. Bigger towns with maybe a thousand inhabitants have had fiber for a long time already.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=johan svensk;39587408]Sweden[/QUOTE] There's your explanation

[quote]That is what I've seen on [B]Harry Ball's[/B] quite ancient computer[/quote] Guy's parents really must have hated him :v:

[QUOTE=johan svensk;39587408]Is that strange that a small town gets fiber? I live in a very small town with only 500 inhabitants and we are soon getting fiber, that's how it is with the rest of Sweden too. Bigger towns with maybe a thousand inhabitants have had fiber for a long time already.[/QUOTE] Small towns are actually more likely to get fiber, because their phone networks aren't updated as often and they're, well, smaller, making upgrading them less costly (and they often have local providers).

I get a lovely 90Mb/s, by virtue of university internet. But if it makes you feel better, I know that next year I have no choice but to go with a notoriously bad ISP such that youtube videos will be pretty much unwatchable.

My town recently got fibre, so my internet is doing amazing: [IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37546036/IThinkI'dRatherGetTheEntiretyOfYoutubeOnLaserDisk_YeahThat'sAGoodIdea.png[/IMG] Oh, hang on I'm waiting for it to clock backwards to 999.99mb/s 97% sure that's how the internet works The worrying part is that I'm only worse than 95% of Great Britain God help that 5%

nice thing to invest into actually, I wish a grand laying

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