Fibre WiFi has arrived at the hut
15/06/2022 | No Comments

Well it had to happen eventually. After years of false promises, trying to get an answer out of Openreach, and generally thinking this was never going to happen, it did! In May 2022 we finally went from the pathetic BT copper line with a download speed of 1.5Mb on a good day (backed up for some years with a satellite connection that was a little bit faster but had a data limit we were always exceeding) to a high speed fibre connection installed at the Barn. Suddenly getting speeds of well over 100Mb seemed incredible. The next issue was the
Read More

The Grey Box in the road
19/05/2021 | No Comments

Before we moved, friends often asked how I was going to work? “Ha!” I would reply with nonchalance, “as long as I have the internet, I can work anywhere!” I hadn’t yet encountered what passes for the internet in rural Wales. It is the proud lie of politicians, BT and Openreach that 95% of the British population has access (my italics) to fast broadband. Access is one thing, being connected is another. Seven years down the badly maintained and snail like line, memories of moaning at Virgin Media that my download speeds were less than perfect at a mere 30Mbs
Read More