lord_seagrave Posted January 3, 2017 Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 The internet is painfully slow in our village, which is seriously cramping our plans to work from home (getting 0.6 mega-things per second). Someone mentioned Satellite Internet? Does anyone here use it and, if so, who is/was your provider? Did they arrange the installation(?) of the equipment(?)? Apologies for the dim questions. LS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDAV Posted January 3, 2017 Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 (edited) 2way or tooway are main supplier http://www.tooway.co.uk Cost is high 4g much cheaper so try that first! 4g router within external antenna would be my choice..... https://www.cable.co.uk/guides/can-i-get-4g-in-my-area/ Edited January 3, 2017 by HDAV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dano0404 Posted January 3, 2017 Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 We had it was on a unlimited plan which had a fair usage of 60gb, got used up very quick. After that wasn't much faster than normal internet. Ping is very slow ours was over a second so normal web browsing was slower than previous. We set our own one up wasn't to hard to do. Took a morning. Not a very nice looking dish on the side of your house but had it on a commercial building. You rent the equipment off then and give it back after your done. After our 2 year contract was up we gave it back and went back to normal internet which got up to 2mbps and was far happier with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herby Posted January 3, 2017 Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 (edited) I think it may have been my post you are on about and I am still thinking of what to do. Usage is the bigest problem and may keep my connection to stream over night, as this is the biggest killer of your date and use a 4G set up to quickly surf about only. When I was in Currys messing about for a telly, community broadband was suggested but I have had no time to research it yet as to what it is and how it works. Try Relish (not in my area yet) Edited January 3, 2017 by herby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandladdie Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 No provision for internet through phone lines where I am, so I have the tooway satellite internet. Downside is it's quite pricey at £35/mth for 20gb of download and cost £200 for the equipment. Upside is I am connected and at half decent speed of about 18mb at the moment. If you do go over your allowance, all that happens is that you are throttled back to 1mb download speed. A lot was said on another thread about using 4G mobile, which only works if you've got signal (I don't). If you have got decent signal this might be a good option. Much of the area where I live doesn't have signal, even if it does its just 2G. Herby we have a 'connected communities' internet available here, but it is tosh. only 1mb download speed and a contention ratio of 49. Up to 49 households sharing 1mb! Hence why I went for the satellite. On the bright side we are in the process of getting 'superfast' (will wait and see) fibre broadband. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herby Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 Thanks. Saves me looking into that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wb123 Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 I got around such a problem with an unlimited tethering mobile contract and a parabolic reflector dish to get decent signal in what was otherwise a dead zone. This was about five or six years ago so the technology should have improved and you may get by with less tin foil for the dish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wb123 Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 (edited) I have emailed you a template for an origami parabolic reflector dish. Get it printed on the biggest sheet of good quality card you can get. Apply waitrose finest tinfoil, aim at your local mast through a suitable window (may need to do some trig off walls), and see if you can get a decent data signal. Some assembly is required. Edited January 4, 2017 by Wb123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_seagrave Posted January 4, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 I have emailed you a template for an origami parabolic reflector dish. Get it printed on the biggest sheet of good quality card you can get. Apply waitrose finest tinfoil, aim at your local mast through a suitable window (may need to do some trig off walls), and see if you can get a decent data signal. Some assembly is required. Hah! Thanks Will - I wondered what the heck that was! I'll report back this weekend... LS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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