I have asked Bob if he can keep us up to date with his trials of the Plumpton WiFi network. He came back to me today with the following email (hopefully he will join this forum to keep us all posted!!)
Hi Ian
We are trialling a link to a couple of subscribers, Mark Brunt and Peter Baker. I have conducted a test at both premises and the link is good for 2mbps up and down. However, we are in the process of revising the subscriber equipment at both sites. We expect to get Peter up today and hopefully Mark as well. These results are encouraging to us and to Langreen, who are meeting on Thursday this week and who have promised us a schedule for roll-out.
We are wholly supportive of Langreen, but in the highly unlikely event of them deciding not to progress the network, we would do so ourselves.
I am also very supportive of your remarkable efforts to push BT into providing ADSL over copper in the village. A WiFi network was intended to provide a service in the event of that not happening soon enough. However, there are some benefits to WiFi (such as speed and coverage, community servers etc) and so I think it could coexist with ADSL as an alternative scheme.
All the best
Bob
Posted on Jan 14, 2004, 1:12 PM from IP address 80.225.3.245