"We're pretty resourceful people," Steenvoorden said. "The technical people were there on the day — they said we needed a feed to each house, and we just set to and did it."
Spurn Point is a nature reserve, Steenvoorden explained, so all the new cabling had to be run underneath existing pathways with minimum disturbance.
"We did it last Friday — we started at 9am and we had all the cabling in by 8.30 at night," he said. "It was a total distance of approximately 300m, linking our seven houses and the crew training facility together. In the next week or two, we've got to run up through some ducting up to a control tower that's 400m away."
The fibre-based connectivity should go live within the next month — the fibre itself needs to be blown through the cables in the next couple of weeks, after which the switching equipment will be installed.
Spurn Point is getting fibre-optic connections to a radio station, with a microwave link to the mainland, Steenvoorden said.
Talkback
Bloody brilliant :D fantastic way to tackling broadband issues that involve small rural community's it just goes to show that the likes of big corporate companies operate on a fad basis, and they should hang there heads in shame!
I hope that all the companies involved documented the way on how they where able to do this, as so to lay precedence on a how to basis for others to follow the fine example put into practice here.
Win!
I think BT should get out of the telecoms market. The advertising hype does not seem to meet the reality.
Bills go up, service quality reduces. Users are now forced to fund the infrastructure through an additional phone bill tax. Next BT will be expecting us to pay more for the improved service which our taxes provide!
I get the same. BT are a load of rubbish when it comes to installing broadband outside their catchment area. I live 1 mile from the local exchange and still cannot get more than 1.2 MB broadband. I have tried switching providers who promise the earth and still get the same crappy download speed, and I live 3 miles from the center of Manchester!
They never run out of excuses for providing poor services.
I'd love to hear BT's response to this story.
Why did they want/need broadband?
In an emergencey, quick access to detailed maps, weather conditions, other emergenty services etc. can quite easily literally save lives.
Such access can also drive down admin costs of a grossly undefunded organisation.
However, it doesn't help support bankers pensions so I guess it's not very important.