Woodmass

You need to talk to the Scottish body running the BDUK equivelent in Scotland. Not quite sure where you fit (HIE or what the other is called?)

With 300 premises talking to BT and the funding body may help to get a new cabinet in the correct place to reach you all. It needs to be a locality you can get a mains power feed to, on the copper route with safe space for a cabinet.

If there are no plans an offer to help fund something may change the decision BUT it can be hard going finding the correct people to talk to.

Within BT you need to try the Scottish Director but I do not know the name ( it should be available from the main BT office in Edinburgh).

£50 each for 300 makes £15000 which could swing it your way!

its getting people to agree to it if its possible, 20 percent of those 300 are most likely elderly folks who most likely just have there simple landline plugged in, i'll wait till november to see if fibre does anything for me, who knows i might get a nice surprise if not i'll do my research online and see who i have to talk to, to do all what you just said. and if openreach/bt allow it i guess i'll go post letters or something for those on the lochmaben exchange/cabinet

The premium is fttp as with classic g.fast the fibre is at the last pole or hole before your home

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Leased lines or Ethernet usually for business are available practically anywhere but carry a large fee more than FoD and higher monthly fees.

Get one put in somewhere that has good Line of sight on the surrounding buildings and the use P2P or P2MP wireless.

Or if you're really sneaky do a bit of fibre to the press release and hope that the thought of a competitor in the area persuades BT to spend the money upgrading it. (Seems to happen whenever an alt.net goes and deploys an area BT suddenly decide it's worth putting FTTC there)

yeah sorry I meant those a long way from the pole.

Andrew, yes that's what I thought the premium option would be (FTTP) but have they actually officially told us that or are we assuming?

What I was told, the three trial areas and then whether things become products after that - so wait and see time.

that might work if it was sitting on a 100ft pole, to many of mother natures obstacles for that i think, not sure how p2p works but im guessing it needs LOS, however i can see lochmaben from my house but only a couple of them on the outskirts if i was to go on the roof but i'd need to read on distances it can handle and price

In reply to a post by woodmass14:

that might work if it was sitting on a 100ft pole, to many of mother natures obstacles for that i think, not sure how p2p works but im guessing it needs LOS, however i can see lochmaben from my house but only a couple of them on the outskirts if i was to go on the roof but i'd need to read on distances it can handle and price

Depends on the distance, ideally it should be line of sight although at short distances near line of sight is probably good enough.

Depends on the required bandwidth but the kit can be cheaper than most people think, it depends on how much interference there is but with LOS and good radio conditions a lot of the point2point stuff can go for miles.

Look at UBNT or Mikrotik for the radio kit, both are pretty cheap and seem to work reasonably well, It's what quite a lot of the providers using Wi-Fi based solutions use.

Also nothing to stop you doing multiple Hops

Edited by dragon2611 (Sun 21-Jun-15 14:15:35)

do you know of any providers that install equipment like that? im guessing someone in town would have to source the internet connection. right? or would i be able to go through a provider instead of going to a random house and ask if i can install equipment on there house. i know a little about how tech works but still a big bit of stupid in there aswell so please forgive me lol the reason i came here for help