The OR reply suggests that we all get together and shell out a fortune as a group for something that others, say in Harrapul or in Breacais, don’t have to pay extra for. Community Fibre.
There are a lot of houses in Heasta now, I forget how many. But 10G or more divided by n should be useful if it happens.
I’m not after enormous amounts of downstream speed just for the hell of it. I want my choice of ISP and all the rich services that come with that, I want fabulous reliability, which I have now already. Right now, line #2 is a very sick puppy so has been turned off all week, but everything else sails along and no one notices. I can still do Zoom calls with only two lines up.
If I had the money, I would get FTTPoD or even a leased line and share it with my neighbours, but I would need a lot of muscle power to run fibre down through the village. (About 1 km, very roughly, down to the shore from my house, which is the highest, northernmost dwelling.) But then that would surely be wasting my money given that at some future date, if I had only been patient for another x years, then I would have presumably got fibre for free when PSTN was retired altogether?
It would be madness to run fibre just for myself and not share it, surely?
Doesn’t help me, but I note with interest that the ISP Bogons has run fibre for locals in the Highlands, in Perthshire, around Both Chuidir, (extremely unhelpfully) anglicised as "Balqu(h)idder". Like B4RN. But Bogons-type things go against my freedom of choice of ISP thing. I wonder how they hook it up to BT. Perhaps they don't. They perhaps have a leased line, point to point, and go into an Internet Exchange. I can’t remember.
I don’t understand the earlier comment about ‘one line going via an FTTC cabinet’. FTTC is 3.5 miles away roughly. My line #2 iirc was installed via a green cab, a cab belonging to a pair, but of course it won’t be the FTTC one in that pair it will be the PCP one (only), no? That was at that time the fourth and latest line, chronologically. (A & A designation: cwcc@a.2.)
It’s good that Black Sheep says that R100 is something real, to some extent. If they don’t do the ‘hard to reach’ houses/villages, then they’ll end up missing out a huge chunk of the target folk.
One of my neighbours came around for a céilidh tonight and we had a serious blether. I’m told there are 27 or 28 (I forget which) houses in Heasta now. I would have guessed 20, shows what I know. There will surely, no?, come a point when we become a significant small community which is to be interconnected to other communities and it hopefully won’t be about the mindset of running long connections to individual single properties any more. For 450 Mbps downstream minimum, times 27 properties, that’s, what, ~12 Gbs, so a 10 Gbps link isn’t quite enough if they’re serious about the minimum downstream guarantee. Upstream is equally important for me.
