OK, thanks.

I believe Ubiquiti equipment will support that sort of speed across the link - however it is dependent on quite a few factors including range and other transmitters

152 Mb would be reasonable to share with a couple of neighbours - just set up rules about hogging bandwidth or large downloads. You could install a switch and manage that directly or put receiving antennas at their properties and have the switch at the source ...

This is where you need real detailed expert advice ... give Solwise a call and also a Ubiquiti reseller and see what bpth can offer.

OK so my household does not have an internet connection and BT has no plans to give us one

But a quite sensible question is "why"?

200 metres from a virgin cable connection in the next street sounds as though a broadband connection really should be available?

Unless the OP could tell us why? Could save significant expenditure on wireless kit which may not be necessary.

In reply to a post by greenglide:

OK so my household does not have an internet connection and BT has no plans to give us one

But a quite sensible question is "why"?

200 metres from a virgin cable connection in the next street sounds as though a broadband connection really should be available?

Unless the OP could tell us why? Could save significant expenditure on wireless kit which may not be necessary.

My neighbour's Virgin connection is actually outside my drive under a small metal cover. They refused me a connection because "your garden is too long" - at 50m. If they refuse to provide one as close as mine, 200m away in another street might as well be on a different continent.

In reply to a post by MHC:

They refused me a connection because "your garden is too long" - at 50m.

They? BT or Virgin? OP is on about BT.

In this case Virgin.

The OP actually refers to both BT and Virgin:

BT has no plans to give us one and neither will Virgin.

What I find difficult to understand is the OP's comment that "BT has no plans to give us one" given that the OP clearly lives in an urban area given the availability of VM a street away. I can only assume that this means there are no plans for FTTC (or FTTP) or that the phone line is EO. In both of which cases BDUK may yet come to the rescue.

The majority of the Ubiquiti kit has 100Mb ethernet interfaces, the wireless interface will easily keep up with this using a wider channel at that distance if the spectrum is reasonably clean. There probably isn't much point getting larger devices with gigabit interfaces as the VM service is contended and possibly traffic shaped.

You could support dozens of people with that bandwidth unless they spend all their time doing speedtests and running torrents, the bigger issues are liabilities arising out of others downloading illegal content, ensuring fair use of the service, billing, support, etc.

In reply to a post by greenglide:

OK so my household does not have an internet connection and BT has no plans to give us one

But a quite sensible question is "why"?

200 metres from a virgin cable connection in the next street sounds as though a broadband connection really should be available?

Unless the OP could tell us why? Could save significant expenditure on wireless kit which may not be necessary.

Virgin will not come onto our estate despite the fact the end of their connection run is 50 metres from my house. They quoted me £200,000 for installation on our estate. BT have quoted us £25,000. Neither of which is viable as a lot of people here just are not bothered about internet so this is why I have to take matters into my own hands, or just move house!
I'm quite happy to spend a few thousand getting a reliable connection up and running, especially if I could sub-let some of the bandwidth to other neighbours for a small fee.
Our council is not signed up to BDUK so they are not coming to our rescue either.
I will give solwise and Ubiquiti a call, thanks for your comments.

Edited by deleted (Mon 20-Oct-14 16:03:29)

A further thought. You have identified someone willing to host your connection, it is any way feasible to run a cable between the properties or are there other properties, gardens, paths or roads in the way.