chrisloudon
Established Member
Hi all,
If anyone has any experience with UK Satellite broadband services, I would welcome your thoughts, comments and experiences.
Having recently moved to a small village in southern Scotland, I am around 4kms from my nearest cabinet and while it is FTTC enabled, the signal drop-off levels result it me being better off with a box standard DSL connection rather than going for fibre.
My current connection speeds are 11Mbit down and 1Mbit up which is really struggling to serve the rather excessive list of PCs, phones, smart TVs and consoles that I have in the household.
This has left me in a position of looking at alternatives and since even my 4G reception is woeful it leaves a satellite service as my only option.
I have done a little digging and can see a few providers advertising speeds of up to 50 down and 6 up and although it looks like Satellite services don’t offer an unlimited data allowance, they do give you a chunk of data that is classed as priority with anything exceeding this allowance throttled. While this isn’t ideal, it is much better that I currently have and from what I have read, even the throttled data speeds are no worse than my current rates.
I am not an online gamer so poor latency is not an issue.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Chris
If anyone has any experience with UK Satellite broadband services, I would welcome your thoughts, comments and experiences.
Having recently moved to a small village in southern Scotland, I am around 4kms from my nearest cabinet and while it is FTTC enabled, the signal drop-off levels result it me being better off with a box standard DSL connection rather than going for fibre.
My current connection speeds are 11Mbit down and 1Mbit up which is really struggling to serve the rather excessive list of PCs, phones, smart TVs and consoles that I have in the household.
This has left me in a position of looking at alternatives and since even my 4G reception is woeful it leaves a satellite service as my only option.
I have done a little digging and can see a few providers advertising speeds of up to 50 down and 6 up and although it looks like Satellite services don’t offer an unlimited data allowance, they do give you a chunk of data that is classed as priority with anything exceeding this allowance throttled. While this isn’t ideal, it is much better that I currently have and from what I have read, even the throttled data speeds are no worse than my current rates.
I am not an online gamer so poor latency is not an issue.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Chris