After apparently being doomed for ever to have to live with a 0.5 Mbt/s download speed, and no hope that Openreach would ever install anything faster, salvation has arrived.
A local firm is erecting short wi-fi transmitting masts on suitable prominent locations, and we now get 30 Mbt/s to a small dish pointing at a hill two miles away.
So far, with a month's experience, the service has been excellent with a steady speed and no glitches. The firm is based 3 miles away, respond immediately to a local phone call, and during set-up just drove over to the pole to adjust it a bit.
It's half the price of the old service, sixty times the speed, and far more reliable. The old speed was only a theoretical 0.5. It would be much less at times, sometimes unusable, with sudden cut-offs.
So no more long expensive calls to a useless centre in India, just a local call to a bloke up the road with a van. As they tell prospective customers, if you can see a windmill, you can have fast broadband. They favour locations next to windmills because of the height, but also windmills need good internet connection themselves, and good road access.
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