A little white dish on the Church flagpole & very high speed Broadband
Apr 28, 2015
A sunny Saturday afternoon saw a steady stream of people bringing smart phones and tablets to Colton Church Hall, connecting up to the demonstration Wi-Fi link and experiencing speeds of the order of 40 Mb/s both up and downstream. Also showing was a continuous streaming from the BBC iPlayer and a demonstration of videoconferencing. Oh the joys of high definition pictures, no delays and virtually no buffering! At one stage, there were 17 people all connected with no noticeable decrease in speeds.
The demonstration, courtesy of WMY Systems Ltd, certainly showed that the technology – which relied on radio links and fed back into the B4RN network across Morecambe Bay - worked well and has the potential to be a cost effective solution to bringing Superfast (or even ultrafast) Broadband to rural areas such as ours.
Interest was expressed at keeping up to date with developments of the system: I’ll keep you up to speed through this blog. Apart from the technological aspect of the afternoon, it was good to see folks meeting together on a sunny Saturday afternoon – something to be repeated I think.