In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

Wouldn�t a mobile based solution be a bit �laggy� for voip use ?

Plenty of people use facebook video, apple facetime, skype etc on mobile data networks with no big issue.

Plenty of people use facebook video, apple facetime, skype etc on mobile data networks with no big issue.

Yep John83 has corrected me, it's a subject I (clearly) know little about.

My parents have WiMax and I found the latency to be excellent; better than my VDSL2 and pretty close to FTTP. Radio waves travel very close to the speed of light so I guess that any latency would be down to signalling overheads and error correction.

No sadly not but they are in the process of commissioning a new mast at Sutton which should cover this site - six weeks they hope. Considering the lead time on getting the alternative BTnet or FTTPoD service in, I'm hoping this particular avenue delivers. My client is still chasing BT for the Openreach site survey upon which everything hinges.

Personally I'd like to go with Vispa if we can. Always prefer smaller local companies if possible although one does take a bit of a risk on overall redundancy. But probably can't be worse than BT...

An installation survey will hopefully be carried out soon.

Went on site to meet the Openreach engineer today. Always better when you can get the real low down. My client might be very lucky - turns out there is a 100Mbps circuit down the lane and there is a suitable conduit to right outside their premises. So installation will be relatively easy esp. as my client can carry out some of additional digging themselves. Plus road closure not needed - just two way lights.

We're now getting alternative quotes from other ISPs as BTnet seems very overpriced compared to other indicative pricing.

So fingers crossed - esp. as I've just read the other thread about FFTPoD new pricing!!

Bizarelly, on my way to site today I spotted another fibre cabinet that's about 500m from their premises but obviously not used by them ;-(