Just thinking ahead. I have three 4.6 mile long EO lines. (EO for the moment, they will be putting in cabs in Broadford fairly soon, so I believe because FTTC is promised for the Broadford residents.
In Lewis, the tiny village of Tolastadh bho Thuath is very remote, at the end of a long string of townships stretching north up the east coast of the island from Steòrnabhagh, the capital. So it's a bit like Heasta where I live, but Heasta is much more remote, one of the most remote villages in Skye, because there's nothing at all, not even one house, along the four mile road from Broadford to me. So there must already be a green cab in Tolastadh, yet there's none right here, so they would have to get on and do that.
Anyway, here, we are permanently screwed unless someone runs five miles of fibre to Heasta from Broadford. (And there's no line of sight either, would need one or two intermediate nodes.) There's a horrible local long-range wireless ISP in the village, which is slow, unpredictably so, and I'm told by neighbours that it's hopelessly unreliable because there is no maintenance contract so faults go unfixed, violent storms just wreck the kit and it stays down.
There's an earlier thread in which Burakkucat, BlackSheep and I discussed the road to Heasta, complete with pics, map and details about the Broadford exchange.
http://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php?topic=16585.90Unfortunately it's rather long and rambling, but skim through and there are some pics and geographic details. The post code is IV49 9BN which gives you number six in the village, a third of a mile south of me. I'm the first, northernmost house in the village.
