ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
But don't ask about healthcare costs...Blimey that's expensive but at least you save money on your Petrol bills compared to the UK.
But don't ask about healthcare costs...Blimey that's expensive but at least you save money on your Petrol bills compared to the UK.
haha, when I lived just outside the village I used to have to leave my home and go for a walk (uphill!) to get a mobile signal. And people wondered why I 'never answered' my phone ...Satellite dish on the wall connected to Solway Communications. About 4mb so runs Netflix... Just. About £50 a month I think.
Not much mobile signal here either.
Have to agree on the petrol. The world would be a better place if it were more expensive here. Glad that both my wife and I work at home now rather than driving the roughly 50 mile round trip when we both worked in the city (fortunately only a mile apart).Blimey that's expensive but at least you save money on your Petrol bills compared to the UK.
Yeah, I'm the same in the new house, mobile signal is normally only 1 bar inside, I have to go outside to get a usable signal, and even then not great until I go some way off.haha, when I lived just outside the village I used to have to leave my home and go for a walk (uphill!) to get a mobile signal. And people wondered why I 'never answered' my phone ...
That is freaking amazing! It warms my heart that people are so cooperative and community oriented there. I cannot imagine that happening here. We have this pervasive “every man for himself” attitude to contend with, especially in the conservative rural places. {sigh}When I lived on the edge of a rural Lancashire village, down in a hollow and behind some trees, we got fibre to mast and then a receiver for line-of-sight to mast, and a cable down to each house in the terrace of three. It was a communal effort which was happening all over the rural northwest; people went out digging trenches, landowners granted access to their land for passage of cables, parish councils permitted erection of receivers for properties that had neither line of sight nor direct cable access ... there were grants available for communities and because almost everyone joined in and helped, a lot was done in a short time and at a reasonable cost.
For instance if running a cable across Landowner A's land enabled the village to get BB at an affordable price (and digging a trench across private land, maybe just inside the boundary with the public highway, is a great deal cheaper and easier than digging it along the road) A also benefits from this; the cable is right there on A's land so they'll get BB too. Otherwise the cable might have to come into the village via a different route - and perhaps, if A lives more than a short distance outside the village, it won't come out to them...
Yes, it was more expensive than the 'cheap deals' that are available for most of the population, but it wasn't that expensive, and certainly nothing like you are paying!
That is freaking amazing! It warms my heart that people are so cooperative and community oriented there. I cannot imagine that happening here. We have this pervasive “every man for himself” attitude to contend with, especially in the conservative rural places. {sigh}
I've upgraded to a 56k modem now
Line-of-sight is not workable for us, we are in a dip and completely surrounded by trees. The nearest cell tower is only a mile away, but invisible from where we are.Is line-of-sight microwave tech. not available ? At least for those people actually within 'line of sight'? Of course trees and valleys and rolling hills give 'issues', but it seems to work for many people in rural areas here. Instead of FTTP (fibre to the premises), it's FTTM (fibre to the mast) and then it's transmitted to a receiver on your home. Very good explanation from a local company here. It worked really, really well for me.