James
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broadband in rural south shropshire?Any one know of a good broadband provider in SW Shropshire hills? Dial up is very, very slow and there's not much mobile reception (you can get reception if you hang out of an upstairs window).
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Treacodactyl
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Are you concerned about the broadband speed or do you just want a good supplier? The speed and much of the reliability will be down to the phone line which is still down to BT. You can check the number on BT's site to see what speeds it can support.
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James
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just want a good supplier. Its for my parents, so it needs to be quite user-friendly. High speed connection is secondary to reliability and ease of getting it and running. My mum just needs to be able to email and download pictures from us.
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mochyn
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Have you checked that Broadband is actually available there? The website thing where you check says it's available here but it isn't BT may be able to give oyu a definite answer. (But don't hold your breath).
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judith
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| mochyn wrote: | | Have you checked that Broadband is actually available there? |
As in checked with the neighbours? What BT says and what you can actually get can be two entirely different beasts once you are out in the sticks.
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lottie
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Asking neighbours doesn't always help  I can get broadband but several of my fairly near neighbours can't--rural broadband can be very hit and miss.
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James
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This is what's confusing me. I've checked the phone number on U-Switch and it says that its suitable for broadband and gives a list of providers in that area.
However, I doubt if this is correct.
My parents live in a basin surrounded by hills, their terrestrial phone line travels a very circuitous above ground route from the nearest exchange (about 5 miles away), so it's painfully low quality (and very effected by the weather). They only got channel 4 in the 1990's, have never got channel 5 and haven't got a cat in hells chance of getting digital TV or radio (so says the BBC engineer). They've given up on analogue TV and gone over to satallite (now they've got more junk on telly than they can shake a stick at)
I did wonder about 3G mobile broadband, but they cant easily get broadband reception
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sako
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The only way you are going to find out is actually apply, be it with BT or any other provider, the speed will be down to the line resistance and not necessarily the distance you are from the exchange.
It won't matter whether the cable is overhead or underground.
If you are on the limits there is something called rate adaptive broadband which is still much faster than dial up.
Cheers
Richard
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