Any ways to achieve faster reliable internet in very rural area?

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We have seen a house we like in a rural area, the only snag is the slow internet - around 10Mb - as we want to work from home.

Does anyone know of any ways to get faster internet?

It isn't on the fibre network unfortunately, and EE don't have a 4G broadband service there according to their website.

Firstly I would check how much speed you actually need. We have those speeds and the other half works from home without issue, for anything but high def videoconferencing it’s fine.

If you really need more look at satellite connections, then look at the price, then refer to my previous ‘do you really need it’.

There is also the expectation that 5G will improve cover, so can you live with it for a year or two?

Speaking to dh (who would be the one wfh) he has said now that the reliability is more important than the speed - that he could work with 10Mb as long as it doesn't keep losing signal. I'm not sure how to find out the reliability of the connection though (other than asking current owners and hope they know) as the internet providers don't seem to supply this information.

We used to live in an area of london with unreliable signal (before fibre was installed) which we didn't know about until we moved in, so I'm aware it's not obvious where signal will be reliable!

It is in a mountainous area, I'm not sure if that will affect whether 5G is available - for example EE 4G say they don't supply this area.

Briskona!

It works on line-of-sight and picked up on (small discrete) dish, usually on roof. We can’t actually see our local hub/“transmitter station” from the house, and had a choice of three. Signal can “bounce” off bodies of water, poly tunnels, etc if essential. Is completely reliable, we pay for the rubbishest speeds as it’s all we need.

I think you’re local broadband sounds too fast to qualify for government grant for installation, but not sure.

As above, find a local company that does microwave/line of sight internet.

Our local is Beeline Broadband, who have been excellent. We are in a tricky location, so actually have to have the signal bounced from a higher up outbuilding down to our house, but they were brilliant in setting it up. We can stream movies, do zoom calls, play online games etc. :)

just tested here (village) and download speed is 7.1MB. Video calls, TV streaming, all normal internet use absolutely fine with the following notes:

• TV streaming was iffy on wifi with more than one device in use. We've run ethernet cables to the TV and it is now fine. That could be the router rather than the local speed.
• no kids playing video games
• of the 10 or so houses within 250m, I think only 2 have internet.

we have been offered fibre but not to the door so can't see the point, especially as all works fine.

Interesting thread. My speed is 1.8.

That's it. Nothing better. No fibre.

We have to flight mode every device not in use just to stream Netflix.

Local companies can usually get the best results, our local Wessex Broadband is excellent.

Some rural areas have small cooperatives that install fibre to the home broadband (my parents are using B4RN). They get symmetric gigabit internet for around £30/month and it's rock solid. Small, local broadband cooperatives are the way to go I reckon. There's one starting in London and I cannot wait to give Virgin the heave, not the least because their monthly cost is around half virgin for triple the speed of symmetric internet (download and upload are the same- I'm currently on asymmetric internet where my upload is around 10% of my download)

THANK YOU to everyone who suggested seeing if there is a community broadband provider- there is, something I hadn't found until I googled it specifically. This has really opened up our house hunting options, thank you all :)