Alternatives to broadband

[Top Hat]

We live a very online life, kids always on youtube and chatting, we download a lot of TV (iplayer) and films

We're looking at buying a very remote house, and although the exchange is broadband enabled the web site indicates that we will be unlikely to get broadband due to the distance from the exchange

Are there any alternatives, what sort of cost and what sort of quality

thanks

 

[cjd]

If you know the telephone number in the house there, you can get pretty good answer by plonking it in here (assuming you did it before by postcode):

http://www.btwholesale.com/includes/adsl/main.html

There are alternatives but they are expenive and slow.

2 way Satellite:
http://www.broadbandwherever.net/?gcid=S18514x001&keyword=Satellite%20Broadband

mobile
http://www.broadbandchoices.co.uk/mobile-broadband-guide.html

 

[riazmb]

I would try a mobile data solution, the cost has come right down esp if your have a phone contract with the same supplier. Many providers allow you to use it for a while to check coverage etc. We use 3 for our rental company Rentalaptop Ltd and I carry one with me all the time! You can even share the connection over wireless network.

 

[Top Hat]

I would try a mobile data solution, the cost has come right down esp if your have a phone contract with the same supplier. Many providers allow you to use it for a while to check coverage etc. We use 3 for our rental company Rentalaptop Ltd and I carry one with me all the time! You can even share the connection over wireless network.

Yes reading the links CJD provided, made me think mobile is the way to go, the problem being that our bandwidth usage is more than the packages currently offer, and some of those packages have a 10p a MB cost if you go over your usage. (10GB over the top at 10p a MB)

Still with the housing market as it is I'm really rather inclined to go into rented, which would save us a packet.

 

[jcsuperstar]

http://www.pocketsurfer.co.uk/

it's not as fast as broadband, but it's around £179 and there's no contract. I have one, I use it when I go away. May not be ideal, but much better than nothing

 

[Deleted member 29747]

The satellite option can be very costly based on my experiences...

 

[Matt1959]

I know someone who lives in deepest Exmoor and the village has clubbed together to enable BB via a dish - is this satalite? I don't know! but thats what they did to ovecome the problem of being in a remote area.