We had, at our old house, a giga bit capability through Virgin Media. We actually ran it at 100 Mb/s as it was cheaper and plenty fast enough.
Before moving here I checked the ADSL speed capability via Openreach and it was estimated at about 18Mb/s. We did a rough test when we visited following agreeing to buy the property. Inside it was getting 17. Grudgingly, this is one of the downsides of country living.
I seriously considered a 4G antenna based approach. One of the providers said we should get the country average of 25 Mb/s but the installation charge of £299 was considerable.
Then I discovered a rural initiative funded by the Government and EU whereby the installation costs would be covered by a grant - "I'll have some of that please!". So we got everything installed for nothing and in internal speed over wi-fi (via a mesh network) as shown below. It took a little bit of tweaking to get it this good but I'm very happy with the service now. Plus, we're not beholden to a telephone line via Openreach.
Be aware that it isn't only download speed that matters. Ping and upload speeds will kill a connection if they are bad too. Although much of the material is downloaded, your systems need to handshake with internet servers to access this data and this is where ping (in particular) is important (the lower the better). If you are working with cloud storage, upload speeds start to factor in broadband decision making too.
Before moving here I checked the ADSL speed capability via Openreach and it was estimated at about 18Mb/s. We did a rough test when we visited following agreeing to buy the property. Inside it was getting 17. Grudgingly, this is one of the downsides of country living.
I seriously considered a 4G antenna based approach. One of the providers said we should get the country average of 25 Mb/s but the installation charge of £299 was considerable.
Then I discovered a rural initiative funded by the Government and EU whereby the installation costs would be covered by a grant - "I'll have some of that please!". So we got everything installed for nothing and in internal speed over wi-fi (via a mesh network) as shown below. It took a little bit of tweaking to get it this good but I'm very happy with the service now. Plus, we're not beholden to a telephone line via Openreach.
Be aware that it isn't only download speed that matters. Ping and upload speeds will kill a connection if they are bad too. Although much of the material is downloaded, your systems need to handshake with internet servers to access this data and this is where ping (in particular) is important (the lower the better). If you are working with cloud storage, upload speeds start to factor in broadband decision making too.
