Faster broadband promise for Sedgemoor (From Bridgwater Mercury)
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Faster broadband promise for Sedgemoor
5:14pm Monday 4th February 2013 in Bridgwater Area News
Faster broadband is on its way.
PEOPLE in Sedgemoor have been promised faster broadband after the public/private sector partnership organisation, Connecting Devon and Somerset, signed a £94million deal with BT.
It pledges to bring fibre optic broadband to 90% of homes by the end of 2016, and minimum speeds of 2mbs to all premises.
Comments(10)
jimeee
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3:32pm Tue 5 Feb 13
RustyKnight
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5:44pm Tue 5 Feb 13
jimeee wrote:Don't think so, probably have to pay more for them as well, and milk!
Yea but you get cheap eggs ;)
Krysiz
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10:31pm Tue 5 Feb 13
RustyKnight
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10:35am Wed 6 Feb 13
teslafanatic
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11:44am Thu 7 Feb 13
Krysiz
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5:19pm Thu 7 Feb 13
teslafanatic wrote:There are quite a few reason people have slow broadband and not all of the them have anything to do with your supplier. The most common cause is EMF from equipment you have plugged in i.e mobile phone chargers. Yeah the speeds in general are rubbish but it's the same everywhere. The fact is Fibre is very good 40Mbps is easily available and that costs me £3.00 more than normal Broadband. You just have to shop around.
I Live near the new Bridgwater Hospital and our supposed broadband speed is meant to be 6.5mbps I'm lucky if I can get 2mbps, even if I check my speed at the BT website they say that I'm getting 4.8mbps but when I download something the actual speed is a paltry 0.5mbps, So it makes you wonder what your'e paying for, If I upgrade to Superfast broadband it will proberly cost a small fortune and proberly be a tad faster, but you never know it might actually live up to name and be fast, lets wait and see shall we.
windswept and interesting
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10:18pm Fri 8 Feb 13
teslafanatic wrote:I live same area and get around 60Mbs download and 12 -14 upload with Fibre Optic. depends which package you are on but my BT never went up in price when I upgraded
I Live near the new Bridgwater Hospital and our supposed broadband speed is meant to be 6.5mbps I'm lucky if I can get 2mbps, even if I check my speed at the BT website they say that I'm getting 4.8mbps but when I download something the actual speed is a paltry 0.5mbps, So it makes you wonder what your'e paying for, If I upgrade to Superfast broadband it will proberly cost a small fortune and proberly be a tad faster, but you never know it might actually live up to name and be fast, lets wait and see shall we.
ohdearithappenedagain
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3:53pm Sun 10 Feb 13
RustyKnight wrote:Bang on!!!
That'll be all the homes in towns then, and the 10% of us who live out in the sticks will be expected to continue paying three times as much for a third of the speed!
I'm amazed we don't have to pay more for our phone calls, electricity, gas, etc. because we don't live in a town - its about time someone actually did somthing about this great broadband rip-off!!
Us "yokels" out in the sticks are always the last to benefit from anything!
I bet they think we don't even know what that there t'interweb is for?
v1234
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5:32pm Sun 10 Feb 13
RustyKnight wrote:no u can just continue to "eat your own"
This site is full of idiots who have superfast broadband and live in towns, which is lucky for us country folk because we don't have to put up with them!
RustyKnight says...
11:23am Tue 5 Feb 13
I'm amazed we don't have to pay more for our phone calls, electricity, gas, etc. because we don't live in a town - its about time someone actually did somthing about this great broadband rip-off!!