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Broadband for everyone

beatman91 · 2010-08-15 17:59:29

I thought I'd share this with people who cannot get broadband. Where I live there is no broadband from anyone and won't be in the near future. But I managed to have broadband for the last 3 years. So here is what you do. I tried my only options that is Three, Vodafone and O2. I had no coverage with any of them anywhere,…

15-08-2010 6:59pm

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beatman91

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I thought I'd share this with people who cannot get broadband. Where I live there is no broadband from anyone and won't be in the near future.

But I managed to have broadband for the last 3 years. So here is what you do. I tried my only options that is Three, Vodafone and O2. I had no coverage with any of them anywhere, even in my garden.

So this is what I did, I put the O2 modem in a small square lunch box, drilled a small hole and pulled the cable out. Extended the cable with 2 5m UBS repeaters, and mounted this on a pole coming out of the tree. I have this plugged into a 3g wifi router in the shed.

Ok I know I I'm not reinventing the wheel here but the extra height on the modem gives me around 40% coverage, meaning I get on average a 3Mbps down and about 1Mbps up. I even managed to get 6Mbps down once.

P.s. I've tried a high gain passive aerial but the above gives me best results connection still drops from time to time, but I went from no signal to quite good for little money.

Hope this helps someone.

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