DCMS have announced the allocation of money by BDUK to bring superfast broadband to the "Final Third" ie areas like ours that are unlikely to get it through normal commercial methods.
Northamptonshire has been allocated £4.08m and Cambridgeshire (including Peterborough) £6.75m which is around £50 per property in the areas where government funding can be used without offending EU "State Aid" rules.
The local BBC TV ran a news item about Cambridgeshire's allocation.
Showing posts with label broadband. Show all posts
Showing posts with label broadband. Show all posts
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
Friday, 29 July 2011
Oundle goes faster
Talk Talk have installed their own equipment in the Oundle telephone exchange, bringing the residents of Oundle cheaper and faster services.
Their ADSL2+ service predicts for a house near the Co-Op: Your estimated speed range is between 5.4 and 12.7meg
Wansford exchange appears as "scheduled" on their exchange checking tool, so perhaps they have changed their mind ?
Their ADSL2+ service predicts for a house near the Co-Op: Your estimated speed range is between 5.4 and 12.7meg
Wansford exchange appears as "scheduled" on their exchange checking tool, so perhaps they have changed their mind ?
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Update on BDUK submissions.
I had a chat with Doug Perkins at East Cambs who is heading the Cambs county initiative. Their strategy is to prepare a bid for submission towards the end of the year. The only overlap with Wansford exchange area will be the Huntingdonshire District Council area to the south of the Nene - Stibbington, Sibson, etc. Apparently Sue Bedlow at the Economic Development Unit at Huntingdonshire is involved in this.
Wittering, Sutton and "Wansford north of the river" fall into Peterborough City unitary authority, I had a holding email from them and will update when more information received. Doug Perkins said that Peterborough were attending a BDUK event so something is happening. The challenge will be to get the rural fringes onto their agenda, given that Peterborough City already has Virgin Media cable and BT rolling out Fibre to the cabinet (FTTC, including "BT Infinity") in the Ortons, Yaxley etc.
Wittering, Sutton and "Wansford north of the river" fall into Peterborough City unitary authority, I had a holding email from them and will update when more information received. Doug Perkins said that Peterborough were attending a BDUK event so something is happening. The challenge will be to get the rural fringes onto their agenda, given that Peterborough City already has Virgin Media cable and BT rolling out Fibre to the cabinet (FTTC, including "BT Infinity") in the Ortons, Yaxley etc.
Sunday, 3 July 2011
Cambridgeshire AWOL
There appears to be white space on Peterborough City and Cambridgeshire on a map of Broadband activity recently presented by BDUK :
At least Northamptonshire County Council has submitted a Local Broadband Plan and that plan includes Wansford exchange in its first phase. Speaking of Northants, they have a somewhat underused forum for discussion of their broadband project at their blog site.
A little searching turned up a rather amusing response "
No results found for "cambridgeshire broadband plan". " which rather confirms what the map says. The same result is achieved by searching for "Peterborough broadband plan". Northamptonshire at least achieves a single hit.
I did find a somewhat empty site Cambridgeshire Broadband Together led by East Cambs District Council. Nothing was to be found on Peterborough City Council web site. I think I shall have to ask.
At least Northamptonshire County Council has submitted a Local Broadband Plan and that plan includes Wansford exchange in its first phase. Speaking of Northants, they have a somewhat underused forum for discussion of their broadband project at their blog site.
A little searching turned up a rather amusing response "
No results found for "cambridgeshire broadband plan". " which rather confirms what the map says. The same result is achieved by searching for "Peterborough broadband plan". Northamptonshire at least achieves a single hit.I did find a somewhat empty site Cambridgeshire Broadband Together led by East Cambs District Council. Nothing was to be found on Peterborough City Council web site. I think I shall have to ask.
Friday, 17 June 2011
Connection problems at Wansford exchange
Not really related to Faster Internet, but the Wansford exchange does seem to be having a rough patch with faults. I have had three cases, and an Openreach engineer confirmed several others, where a user can't get onto the Internet and their router has a solid DSL connection to the exchange.
The symptoms of this are a solid DSL light showing a good connection, and a sensible speed displayed in the router's web pages. The Internet light will be off, or red instead of green, or Amber instead of Blue on a BT Home Hub. The router web interface will show no IP address, there may be an error like Authentication failed, No PPP session, LCP down or similar.
If you change the router login to bt_test@startup_domain the above symptoms persist - you can't even log in to the test user (which needs no password and should work on all lines).
So if this happens call up your service provider and tell them you have a good ADSL signal but no PPP session, that the bt_test login doesn't work and that some of your neighbours had the same problem and BT Wholesale had to make changes at the exchange.
Most "help"desks will have you changing filters and monkeying around with all manner of things, but you either need them to report it to BT Wholesale or get them to arrange an Openreach engineer visit who will then have to do the same. Don't be put off by threats of visit charges, if you have an ADSL signal with 448k upstream and a sensible downstream speed then it isn't a problem with the phone line or wiring.c
The symptoms of this are a solid DSL light showing a good connection, and a sensible speed displayed in the router's web pages. The Internet light will be off, or red instead of green, or Amber instead of Blue on a BT Home Hub. The router web interface will show no IP address, there may be an error like Authentication failed, No PPP session, LCP down or similar.
If you change the router login to bt_test@startup_domain the above symptoms persist - you can't even log in to the test user (which needs no password and should work on all lines).
So if this happens call up your service provider and tell them you have a good ADSL signal but no PPP session, that the bt_test login doesn't work and that some of your neighbours had the same problem and BT Wholesale had to make changes at the exchange.
Most "help"desks will have you changing filters and monkeying around with all manner of things, but you either need them to report it to BT Wholesale or get them to arrange an Openreach engineer visit who will then have to do the same. Don't be put off by threats of visit charges, if you have an ADSL signal with 448k upstream and a sensible downstream speed then it isn't a problem with the phone line or wiring.c
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