Originally Posted by enapace:
“Very likely as imagine there is no Fibre where you live. Though suppose it could be microwaved in if there is a nearby place which has it. Though with you might be involved in welsh BDUK which would allow the networks to get fibre to your local mast.”
I still struggle to believe it myself, but the village was actually fibre enabled in September of last year, and I believe almost every cabinet is now live. I have actually just placed an order for FTTC 80/20, due to be installed at the end of the month!
Trying to think where the nearest cab is to the mast in question though? Suppose when I see them digging up the road nearby I'll know somethings going on lol.
I've asked about this mast several times before, to anybody and everybody in the know, and I can't get a even a rough date estimate as to when it'll be upgraded. Only that the EE network should have upgraded all the old 2G masts by end of 2014.
This might be daft but I thought BT fibre in the area had no bearing on mast upgrades - I thought in areas without fibre they'd lay ethernet from the exchange or use microwave backhaul...
My understanding of how they get bandwidth to the transmission site is limited, only that its delivered either by fibre, ethernet or microwave relay.
Our 2G Orange site is microwave relayed.
Can't believe researching the UK fibre rollout in general that we are fibre enabled, and I can have 80mbps delivered to my door, but theres not a sniff of 3G about lol - I'll be doing a speedtest indoors and get 80mbps over wifi, step outside and get 0.03mbps over GPRS.