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<blockquote data-quote="davidsan" data-source="post: 799743" data-attributes="member: 388094">Yep seen it! These guys seem to be the inspiration as far as I know but far more legit. b4rn.org.uk Would love to know the names of these villages if you remember PaulR and do some digging!It's amazing that connectivity is so bad community projects are being started to do it themselves. Not sure about the legality of it (ie. land ownership, environmental, there's laws in place as to what you can and can't do I'd imagine) but even the government hits 2015 targets they're making intercity connections even faster so the gap will still exist. Of course when Telecoms installed copper cabling all over the country over 50 years ago the internet wasn't even an idea.In the UK Satellite internet has always been dark horse as it costs a lot and is still second to a decent cable connection for latency and bandwidth, but the launch of Tooway and the KA-SAT has made prices across Europe drop and improved speed. It's predicted that by next year speeds could hit 50Mpbs which is a big improvement on the current 10Mbps. n the US as it's a bigger country with more wasteland Satellite Internet is a common solution for many people.And no problem with the link, thanks for leaving it up for people to check out though! ;)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="davidsan, post: 799743, member: 388094"] Yep seen it! These guys seem to be the inspiration as far as I know but far more legit. b4rn.org.uk Would love to know the names of these villages if you remember PaulR and do some digging! It's amazing that connectivity is so bad community projects are being started to do it themselves. Not sure about the legality of it (ie. land ownership, environmental, there's laws in place as to what you can and can't do I'd imagine) but even the government hits 2015 targets they're making intercity connections even faster so the gap will still exist. Of course when Telecoms installed copper cabling all over the country over 50 years ago the internet wasn't even an idea. In the UK Satellite internet has always been dark horse as it costs a lot and is still second to a decent cable connection for latency and bandwidth, but the launch of Tooway and the KA-SAT has made prices across Europe drop and improved speed. It's predicted that by next year speeds could hit 50Mpbs which is a big improvement on the current 10Mbps. n the US as it's a bigger country with more wasteland Satellite Internet is a common solution for many people. And no problem with the link, thanks for leaving it up for people to check out though! ;) [/QUOTE]

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