Hi TBBers,
I live in Hemel Hempstead town centre which is obviously a commercial area because there are quite a lot of shops here. Apparently that means fibre-optic internet is not required here because it would only be for shops, etc. Well it's not just shops here and why would businesses not need it anyway?
BT and Virgin who are of course the 2 companies who have fibre-optic networks in the UK alledgedly have no plans to include this area in their networks yet. I know because I've asked both. So for now I'm on a BT DSL internet connection which is up to 20Mb download, 1Mb upload (pathetic) and with a latency of about 8ms according to a few speed tests.
Does anyone know if there's another way I could have high speed internet here? Where I lived before I was used to 160Mb download + 12Mb upload on Virgin and 80Mb download + 20Mb upload on BT Infinity 2.
For example, is there such a thing as a 4G contract with unlimited data? I know 4G data tends to be expensive but if there is I'd definately consider it because "pay as you go" would be ridiculous at about £30 for 10 gigs. Or is there some other alternative?
Thanks.