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Sorry, I wasn't being pedantic. Just sharing whatever knowledge and experience I have, as you others are doing too.
13 years ago my dial up speed in London was faster than the broadband speed i have now in my rural location. |
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We actually got quite a dramatic boost from 256kb/s to 1.5mb/s. That difference was actually incredible. Made downloading games an actual viable option rather than having to leave the computer on all night.
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That is not a village, just a remote housing estate or what was commonly called a hamlet.
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A real village does not need to have the street sign say so.
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I live in a small village and we don't have fibre. Our internet speed is dire. It takes longer to download a film than it does to watch it. We don't have mains gas either. Our main problem is lack of signal to use a mobile. Very annoying when you are trying to work from home.
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I get 2 - 3 dots out of 5 on the iPhone with 4G out here.
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Part of the joys of living in the sticks.
We live in a small village (Less than 150 homes, no shops ) and regularly have power cuts in the winter, no mains gas and a bus once an hour with the last one through at 7.00pm. T'internets not too bad funny enough. |
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The games you download must be about 2-3GBs then. 3 hours at 187KBs/s comes to about 2GBs. The games these days on Steam and Origin are in the tens of gigabytes. I'm sort of assuming that you download them from either of those two. A 38Mbit FTTC connection (the lower package) would likely blow your mind.
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Original poster said Lincolnshire - friend of mine lives in Burton just north of Lincoln and gets letters from BT offering broadband at 0.25 meg, so he has had 3G wireless broadband from Three at 6.3 meg for many years now.
I'm 3 miles from two EE masts and have 4G from them. That'll do me for broadband - very pleased with EE as a single householder. If there were more inhabitants of my house, I'd just go out and buy more wireless broadband boxes. Be aware that if the 3G signal is much stronger than 4G, the "entry level" wireless broadband boxes will lock on to 3G, and indeed many mobile phones. By getting a more professional device such as a Huawei router, it is possible to tell it to select only 4G, which gives a signal strong enough to use indoors. The technical people who have posted in this thread are no doubt fully aware of the "Thinkbroadband" site, but for the non-technical, take a look at this broadband forum : http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ Is there any point in putting fibre to every property in rural locations ? No. Use wireless broadband, and have more than one broadband box at locations where there are several people. |
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I'm a long-time Steam user. Only the AAA titles tend to be in the tens of gigs. There are many many games that come in far smaller downloads.
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Is there any point in putting fibre to every property in rural locations ? No. Use wireless broadband, and have more than one broadband box at locations where there are several people.
The other issue is that a lot of these rural locations can't even get 3G signal to begin with. To install new masts requires fibre connectivity that in many cases does not exist. The mobile operators wont foot the bill if only a relatively small number of users are based there. |
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