Broadband Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/broadband/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Tue, 05 Mar 2024 09:00:10 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg Broadband Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/broadband/ 32 32 2696646 Speedy Broadband https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2024/03/speedy-broadband/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2024/03/speedy-broadband/#respond Thu, 07 Mar 2024 10:41:49 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=42085 We’ve been pretty happy with our broadband ever since we were one of the first households in Wales to get Fibre direct to the Property back in 2016. I still don’t know why we got it then, but at the time going from 1.5Mbps download speed to a 52Mbps download speed was quite a revelation....

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2024/03/speedy-broadband/feed/ 0 42085 21st Century at Ynyslas https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/03/21st-century-ynyslas/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/03/21st-century-ynyslas/#respond Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:58:26 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=23832 We seem to be moving ever closer to the 21st Century at Ynyslas… First we leap-frogged most people in the UK by getting Superfast broadband via a direct Fibre to the Property (FTTP) connection rather than the standard Fibre to the Cabinet connection that most people with Superfast Broadband have. Before that we were on...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/03/21st-century-ynyslas/feed/ 0 23832 Fibre to the Property https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/09/fibre-to-the-property/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/09/fibre-to-the-property/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2016 05:20:09 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=22914 At last, we have Fibre to the Property (FTTP) Broadband, and it seems to be working well. If you read my previous post on this matter you’ll know that BT somehow managed to mess up our order so it took a couple of months to actually get it. But, now, finally we are living life...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/09/fibre-to-the-property/feed/ 4 22914 BT Broadband Ball Ups https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/09/bt-broadband-ball-ups/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/09/bt-broadband-ball-ups/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2016 14:06:41 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=22896 As you know, we’ve been struggling with slow broadband here for years now with no real sign of Superfast Broadband coming any time soon. Download speeds are around 2Mbps, Upload speeds a crippling 0.2Mbps. Then, all of a sudden in July we discovered that we could get Fibre to the Property (FTTP). Fibre to the...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/09/bt-broadband-ball-ups/feed/ 7 22896 An Early Christmas Present https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/12/early-christmas-present/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/12/early-christmas-present/#respond Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:54:26 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=18135 Woohooo, it seems as though the telecommunications gods have given us an early Christmas present… The fastest Broadband we’ve ever had – a whopping 3.3Mbps. OK, it’s not that great but it has at least allowed me to stream and watch the entire Red Bull Storm Chase video without any buffering – not in HD...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/12/early-christmas-present/feed/ 0 18135 A Summer Hiatus – Silver Bands and Broadband https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/07/a-summer-hiatus-silver-bands-and-broadband/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/07/a-summer-hiatus-silver-bands-and-broadband/#comments Wed, 31 Jul 2013 07:02:11 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=14239 I’m hoping that isn’t the end of summer but yesterday’s evening swim was definitely less summery than of late and it’s raining again this morning. I even had to put a jacket on after my swim in Aberystwyth last night as it was getting quite chilly and we had to put the headlights on during the drive home...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/07/a-summer-hiatus-silver-bands-and-broadband/feed/ 7 14239 Summer – Day 4 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/07/summer-day-4/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/07/summer-day-4/#comments Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:35:26 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=13933 Day 4 of Summer dawned with clear blue skies and plenty of promise. Lots of work to do today though so once again it was an early start in order to fit it all in. Blogging, cleaning, vacuuming, breakfast, stretching, working on websites and then off to a local business to work on their invoicing...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/07/summer-day-4/feed/ 1 13933 The Route of all my Problems https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2012/12/the-route-of-all-my-problems/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2012/12/the-route-of-all-my-problems/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:48:29 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=11983 Maybe ‘all’ of my problems is a slight exaggeration but we’d been gradually having various home network issues here. Our home computer network isn’t that complicated but it is convenient to have it all up and running as it should do. We have a broadband connection wired from the phone line to a Belkin router....

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/03/telephone-woes/feed/ 0 7336 The Highs and Lows of Customer Service https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/03/the-highs-and-lows-of-customer-service/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/03/the-highs-and-lows-of-customer-service/#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:35:46 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=7297 It’s been a frustrating week here in our Simple Life of Luxury. Trying to get through to customer service representatives can be a nightmare. As I mentioned in a previous post, our phone line went down again in exactly the same way that it did at Christmas. We could see the wires hanging off the...

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