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[TheBoy]

What provider?  Openreach supported ISP, or the likes of CityFibre (aren't they now Vodashite?), Gigaclear or Virgin?

I think pretty much all will insist on terminating inside a dry dwelling, and all will do the job up to that point, to varying levels of effort.


I actually use a couple of point to point wifi links to make a virtual ethernet connection between 2 buildings about 150m apart.  The older one, a Buffalo 54g system with yagis must be 20yrs old, and is rock solid, never missed a beat except when it snows (that drops the link), but is constrained by the 54Mb (half duplex, remember) throughput.  At the same site, I have a Ubiquiti AC1200 setup, which is cheap and nasty.  Its desperately unreliable, drops frequently, and needs a 5min "listen" time to resync (to comply with radar laws, being a 5GHz device, plus its in a hostile radar area). TBH, most of the time I just reroute packets to the Buffalo stuff.

The Buffalo was around £1-1.2k back in about 2001ish.  The Ubiquiti was around £300.

I wouldn't have such a link for my incoming connection.

[dave the builder]

have you inquired about the cost of having a duct pulled in with mole ?

[zirk]

Have you thought about 4g?, works for me I using a 4g Unlimited Data Sim (Virgin Media via EE) in my Home Router set up, cost me £20 a month (Get Unl Calls and Txts as well) I get around 35 to 45 Mg Down and about 30 to 40 Mg up, the up speed is what works for me at that price because even Fibre cant not deliver around here for that price range

[jonathanh]

What provider?  Openreach supported ISP, or the likes of CityFibre (aren't they now Vodashite?), Gigaclear or Virgin?

I think pretty much all will insist on terminating inside a dry dwelling, and all will do the job up to that point, to varying levels of effort.


I actually use a couple of point to point wifi links to make a virtual ethernet connection between 2 buildings about 150m apart.  The older one, a Buffalo 54g system with yagis must be 20yrs old, and is rock solid, never missed a beat except when it snows (that drops the link), but is constrained by the 54Mb (half duplex, remember) throughput.  At the same site, I have a Ubiquiti AC1200 setup, which is cheap and nasty.  Its desperately unreliable, drops frequently, and needs a 5min "listen" time to resync (to comply with radar laws, being a 5GHz device, plus its in a hostile radar area). TBH, most of the time I just reroute packets to the Buffalo stuff.

The Buffalo was around £1-1.2k back in about 2001ish.  The Ubiquiti was around £300.

I wouldn't have such a link for my incoming connection.

I think openreach are doing the work,  but telent have been wandering around ( its the Coventry solihull Warwickshire upgrade partnership).  the box by the road is dry and secure so I'm not worried there but as the link is unreliable and I think going to make it impossible to voice over fibre at some point, the answer is going to be 2 days on a mini digger.  I'm not gonna pay some numpty from openreach to dig, I'll do it myself and they can throw the duct in!

[aaronjb]

have you inquired about the cost of having a duct pulled in with mole ?

Probably cheap .. up until it digs through something important*


*I know, they "go around" - except in our old house, where they didn't, and punched the new gas & water mains straight through the clay pipe for the poop, and resulted in (eventually!) a collapsed drain and a very soggy, turdy mess of a front lawn; not helped by the neighbours "upstream" flushing nappies, mind.

[jonathanh]

have you inquired about the cost of having a duct pulled in with mole ?

Probably cheap .. up until it digs through something important*


*I know, they "go around" - except in our old house, where they didn't, and punched the new gas & water mains straight through the clay pipe for the poop, and resulted in (eventually!) a collapsed drain and a very soggy, turdy mess of a front lawn; not helped by the neighbours "upstream" flushing nappies, mind.

thankfully if anyone is going to put anything in with a mole plough it will be me.  Trouble is I've got 3 cables and 3 buries pipes to negotiate and I hate hand digging - hate it...

[TheBoy]

Have you thought about 4g?, works for me I using a 4g Unlimited Data Sim (Virgin Media via EE) in my Home Router set up, cost me £20 a month (Get Unl Calls and Txts as well) I get around 35 to 45 Mg Down and about 30 to 40 Mg up, the up speed is what works for me at that price because even Fibre cant not deliver around here for that price range

Its an option, but mobile broadband isn't for everyone, even if you can get the speeds.  Latency and latency jitter are issues with mobile broadband, which can play havoc with things like gaming, and make VoIP sound as bad as, err, mobile

But for pure web/sync/email etc, definitely a viable option