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North Norfolk Broadband thinks it can restrict subscribers to "a single PC"

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  Messages 7-4 deleted by topic administrator 08-19-2008 08:18 AM
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Gtaylor
09-16-2004
10:00 AM ET (US)
 Where is the "broadband" coming from in the first place to distribute around the village?
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Stephen Johnson
09-07-2003
09:49 AM ET (US)
 I’m a sole trader serving the photolibrary business from home in Sheringham and have been desperate for decent broadband for years. I welcome the wireless initiative, I’m currently using a BT500/1 Satellite connection which has a 1GB limit per week (I think - it may even be per month).

Technically I’m in breach of this contract as my wife orders the Tesco shopping on a machine downstairs (using windows XPs ICS) and my daughter downloads games from the CBeebies site.

I would have thought that what matters/costs is the bandwidth and that it doesn’t matter if one machine is drawing down 512Kb or 3 machines are drawing down a total of 512Kb. Its a matter of convenience that my wife and daughter use a separate machine from me, if we had to share one machine the total usage would be precisely the same.

I’m hoping all this silliness is just early day’s stuff, we can all have a laugh in our old age when gigabit connections are ordinary.

In the meantime I guess setting up a wireless network and buying backhaul requires a reasonable amount of capital and NNB will want to get as many users as possible onto the bandwidth, hence the terms and conditions.

What would be really useful for me is some feedback from mature wireless projects, details of uptime, general reliability and speed etc. The BT 500/1 after a very shaky start is useable now for business purposes, as someone who earns money from the comings and goings of digital data I need to be sure that I’m making the right decision when choosing new connection technologies.
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Guy KewneyPerson was signed in when posted
09-05-2003
05:39 AM ET (US)
Another rural community has discovered the benefits of do-it-yourself broadband, using the LocustWorld Meshbox to distribute the Internet around small villages, starting with Sheringham.

Strangely, they seem to have evolved a "one PC only" policy for subscribers paying the entry level £29.99 a month subscription. Does anybody really think this is going to work?
Edited 09-05-2003 05:46 AM
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