Yippee!! Broadband reaches North Norfolk
Just heard that our small village on the North Norfolk Coast will be broadband enabled at the end of July this year. Yippee! Ian
Congratulations!!!! I'll be delighted when it reaches the outskirts of Lowestoft :( I have heard that bt are going to experiment and let people try it to what what they get even if the line test shows more than 60db so sit with fingers crossed Regards Stan ----- Original Message ----- From: "IanBell" <ian@redtommo.com> To: <main@lists.alug.org.uk> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:09 PM Subject: [ALUG] Yippee!! Broadband reaches North Norfolk
Just heard that our small village on the North Norfolk Coast will be broadband enabled at the end of July this year. Yippee!
Ian
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On Thursday 25 March 2004 21:47, Stan Fraser wrote:
Congratulations!!!! I'll be delighted when it reaches the outskirts of Lowestoft :( I have heard that bt are going to experiment and let people try it to what what they get even if the line test shows more than 60db so sit with fingers crossed Regards Stan
The only way is to ensure sufficient peole register to exceed the threshold set by BT. I wrote to the local parish council and got them to put an explanatory note in the parish magazine. We reached the threshold a couple of months later. Ian
The only way is to ensure sufficient peole register to exceed the threshold set by BT. I wrote to the local parish council and got them to put an explanatory note in the parish magazine. We reached the threshold a couple of months later.
Around 70-80 exchanges nationally are reaching trigger levels each week at the moment. Two more near where I live (Swainsthorpe exchange) triggered last week (Mulbarton and Fundenhall) and Long Stratton which triggered a few weeks ago will be enabled in July. It's happening! BT is also trying to ramp-up the rate at which exchanges are actually enabled - this has averaged around 25 per week so a large backlog is developing. Best resource for info on BB deployment is Sam Knows: http://www.samknows.com/broadband It has many useful features. For example: click on 'exchange search' on the left and use the search field to find an exchange (accepts part names). Get full details of registrations etc including a graph. Click on a link to get a map which shows neighbouring exchanges, colour coded according to registration status, each of which is a clickable link to the associated info for that exchange including a link to the map. Very easy to use and very informative. Here is the map for the Lowestoft exchange area, for example (which is enabled): http://www.samknows.com/broadband/viewmap.php?ecode=EALOW There are also links to exchanges sorted by many different criteria including by county. Of course, ADSL has many limitations and problems, such as distance from the exchange, but that is another issue :-) Syd
On 25-Mar-04 IanBell wrote:
Just heard that our small village on the North Norfolk Coast will be broadband enabled at the end of July this year. Yippee!
Which small village is it? Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 25-Mar-04 Time: 21:59:33 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
On Thursday 25 March 2004 21:59, Ted Harding wrote:
On 25-Mar-04 IanBell wrote:
Just heard that our small village on the North Norfolk Coast will be broadband enabled at the end of July this year. Yippee!
Which small village is it? Ted.
Northrepps, connected to the Overstrand exchange. Ian
On 26-Mar-04 IanBell wrote:
On Thursday 25 March 2004 21:59, Ted Harding wrote:
On 25-Mar-04 IanBell wrote:
Just heard that our small village on the North Norfolk Coast will be broadband enabled at the end of July this year. Yippee!
Which small village is it? Ted.
Northrepps, connected to the Overstrand exchange.
Thanks! I guess you benefit by being counted along with the population of Overstrand and from Overstrand's proximity to a few other places. I was interested, as a point of comparison with my own remote location: Little Ouse (Brandon Bank on some maps), about 3 miles ENE of Littleport. The exchange is a brick hut at Brandon Creek, and I doubt it serves as many as 100 lines. Last time I looked, the register of ADSL interest for Brandon Creek exchange had climbed, breathlessly, to 9 ... I feel wireless ought to be rolled out for the many subscribers scattered over the really sparse areas of the Fens, served by really tiny exchanges. The coverage of a single wireless point should be able to take in hundreds of these in one go. Mobile phones work OK! Cheers, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 26-Mar-04 Time: 15:38:46 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
On Friday 26 March 2004 15:38, Ted Harding wrote:
On 26-Mar-04 IanBell wrote:
On Thursday 25 March 2004 21:59, Ted Harding wrote:
On 25-Mar-04 IanBell wrote:
Just heard that our small village on the North Norfolk Coast will be broadband enabled at the end of July this year. Yippee!
Which small village is it? Ted.
Northrepps, connected to the Overstrand exchange.
Thanks! I guess you benefit by being counted along with the population of Overstrand and from Overstrand's proximity to a few other places.
Every little helps but AFAIK only Overstrand, Northrepps and Sidestrand are served by the Overstrand exchange.
I was interested, as a point of comparison with my own remote location: Little Ouse (Brandon Bank on some maps), about 3 miles ENE of Littleport. The exchange is a brick hut at Brandon Creek, and I doubt it serves as many as 100 lines. Last time I looked, the register of ADSL interest for Brandon Creek exchange had climbed, breathlessly, to 9 ...
Overstrand is much the same, a brick building about the size of a single garage. What is your threshold? Ours was 200.
I feel wireless ought to be rolled out for the many subscribers scattered over the really sparse areas of the Fens, served by really tiny exchanges. The coverage of a single wireless point should be able to take in hundreds of these in one go. Mobile phones work OK!
There are offerings of this type. There is an agency called something like East Anglian Broadband, that exists to make funds available for this sort of thing. A google search should find it. Ian
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