It can be, or at least part of a solution. If you have a fat connection for example in a school then you could use wireless to spread that around houses. Or you could use long range wireless(line of sight) to bring a connection into a notspot area.
Thanks for your reply Phil.
There is a firm offering wireless broadband from an aerial, they reckon to cover an area radius 20 kms. But they need minium of c50 subscribers before they would consider puttting up an aerial. Price a bit higher than wired broadband, but possibly room for negotiation on price. Range of speeds offered 2, 4 & 8mbps this is symmetric up & download. Yes line of sight but possible to overcome if you have aerials in different locations
We run two wireless networks, one is a community research network for lancaster university special projects unit and one is a commercial network for an area with no adsl or mobile coverage, and even satellites aren’t much good in parts of it due to south facing hills.
You are more than welcome to visit and see some of the good and bad things about wireless. It is a great stopgap until we can replace it with fibre. It is affordable if you can get the backhaul. It is fairly quick to build if you have money. It isn’t the future, but its the best we can do at the moment.
we are in the bottom corner of cumbria, and the commercial network covers users on cumbrian, yorkshire and lancashire exchanges.
chris
Thank you Chris. I’m at the other end of the county on the border with Scotland. I’m working with my neighbour to try & improve the broadband. Some parts of our parish have almost no broadband. Would certainly be interested in looking at your networks if we can arrange something.
William
Nice to meet you and Ian today, here is the link to the photo I took http://instagr.am/p/DKp1U/ hope you enjoyed your flying visit to our farm, hope to meet up again soon and good luck in your quest to help your communities. Fire away with any questions and we can all share the knowledge.
chris
Worth you having a look at Great Asby Broadband in Cumbria and also the NextGenUs Newton & Stape project in North Yorkshire - both use high speed wireless to provide broadband service.
Hi William, we use fixed wireless and it works really well. It took us about 4-5 years to truly understand how to make it scale and perform and we threw away about £60k of kit in the process (never believe the marketing blurb).
We’re sick of waiting for BDUK to say anything meaningful and the councils only seem to understand ’expensive’ ways of doing things (I guess they assume if it they can’t afford it, it must me okay?) We therefore decided to just get on with it. We are typically connecting premises at 10-20mbps.
Having proven the model, we have now raised significant private equity funding and are gearing up for widespread roll-out.
Lancashire is our home, but we need to connect a test site outside the county before July 2011 as part of our development and growth planning. I think it will be a race between Cumbria and Cheshire, so place your bids!!!
It can be, or at least part of a solution. If you have a fat connection for example in a school then you could use wireless to spread that around houses. Or you could use long range wireless(line of sight) to bring a connection into a notspot area.
What were you considering ?
Thanks for your reply Phil.
There is a firm offering wireless broadband from an aerial, they reckon to cover an area radius 20 kms. But they need minium of c50 subscribers before they would consider puttting up an aerial. Price a bit higher than wired broadband, but possibly room for negotiation on price. Range of speeds offered 2, 4 & 8mbps this is symmetric up & download. Yes line of sight but possible to overcome if you have aerials in different locations
Aerials in different locations may increase the total number of subscribers required for viability, as fixed costs go up.
We run two wireless networks, one is a community research network for lancaster university special projects unit and one is a commercial network for an area with no adsl or mobile coverage, and even satellites aren’t much good in parts of it due to south facing hills.
You are more than welcome to visit and see some of the good and bad things about wireless. It is a great stopgap until we can replace it with fibre. It is affordable if you can get the backhaul. It is fairly quick to build if you have money. It isn’t the future, but its the best we can do at the moment.
we are in the bottom corner of cumbria, and the commercial network covers users on cumbrian, yorkshire and lancashire exchanges.
chris
Thank you Chris. I’m at the other end of the county on the border with Scotland. I’m working with my neighbour to try & improve the broadband. Some parts of our parish have almost no broadband. Would certainly be interested in looking at your networks if we can arrange something.
William
great stuff. any time you like, you are most welcome. will send you my phone number or just let me know on here when you are coming.
chris
Nice to meet you and Ian today, here is the link to the photo I took http://instagr.am/p/DKp1U/ hope you enjoyed your flying visit to our farm, hope to meet up again soon and good luck in your quest to help your communities. Fire away with any questions and we can all share the knowledge.
chris
Hi William,
Worth you having a look at Great Asby Broadband in Cumbria and also the NextGenUs Newton & Stape project in North Yorkshire - both use high speed wireless to provide broadband service.
Hi William, we use fixed wireless and it works really well. It took us about 4-5 years to truly understand how to make it scale and perform and we threw away about £60k of kit in the process (never believe the marketing blurb).
We’re sick of waiting for BDUK to say anything meaningful and the councils only seem to understand ’expensive’ ways of doing things (I guess they assume if it they can’t afford it, it must me okay?) We therefore decided to just get on with it. We are typically connecting premises at 10-20mbps.
Having proven the model, we have now raised significant private equity funding and are gearing up for widespread roll-out.
Lancashire is our home, but we need to connect a test site outside the county before July 2011 as part of our development and growth planning. I think it will be a race between Cumbria and Cheshire, so place your bids!!!
Dave