{"id":1574,"date":"2019-09-16T12:44:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T11:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.farlington.org.uk\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2019-09-16T12:45:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T11:45:47","slug":"broadband-for-farlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.farlington.org.uk\/index.php\/2019\/09\/16\/broadband-for-farlington\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadband for Farlington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> All of the local residents who have lived in  Farlington for more than two years may remember that David carried out a  survey of the Broadband speeds that were available to telephone users in  our immediate area. \u00a0The results were used to reinforce our\u00a0arguments  for a Fibre link from Stillington (or Sherrif Hutton) to Farlington.  \u00a0The situation has moved on and BT considers that it has fulfilled its  commitment to provide HSBB to local rural areas but we do not appear to  be receiving the, frequently promised, improved connectivity. Members of  the Parish\u00a0Meeting are attempting to re-energise the work and need  current figures to prove that we have no better Broadband than we\u00a0had 3  or 4 years ago. \u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-background-dim-20 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-image:url(http:\/\/www.farlington.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/header-009.jpg);background-position:88% 66%\"><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p style=\"font-size:32px;text-align:center\" class=\"has-text-color has-very-light-gray-color\">Farlington Broadband Survey<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Survey<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>May I ask all residents in the Farlington area who use the internet to provide the following information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Are you connected to a BT Line?<\/li><li>Do you subscribe to BT Broadband?<\/li><li>Are you&nbsp;connected to Broadband by:<ul><li>a) &nbsp; Laptop?&nbsp;<\/li><li>b) &nbsp; Desktop PC?<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li> If you have any idea of your current Internet speed what is it ? <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>You can use the<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/broadbandtest.which.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Which? internet speed check tool<\/a><\/strong> to find out your connection speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please email your replies to <strong>treasurer@farlington.org.uk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;In the Parish Meeting of May 2019 we&nbsp;reported that&nbsp;no\n progress had been made on the delivery of fibre BBand to the village, \ndespite a private supply being installed as far as Ashbrook Barns. The \nsituation was to be chased up. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We now can confirm that the\n cost of bringing a fibre link the 2 miles from Stillington has been \ncovered privately and we know that there is plenty of capacity to run \nthis further into the village in the future. &nbsp;OpenReach\n are now in the final stages of completing the fibre optic link between \nthe Stillington Exchange and Ashbrook Barns but we have had no news \nabout any progress&nbsp;towards utilising this link to facilitate a spur into\n the village proper.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0A contact in Stillington has been taking a close interest in the progress of the installation of HSBB into our area and he has\u00a0tracked  the progress of BT\u00a0over seven years since the Project was started.  \u00a0However, with the BT element of the project now almost complete,  information on progress has almost dried up. We understand that the  Exchange is connected and, coming soon will be notices of\u00a0the future  exchange connections, in general. Very helpful but we have not been able  to positively\u00a0confirm that this includes a link to Farlington. \u00a0It  looks like BT Have completed their side of the Contract (to equip  Telephone exchanges for HSBB),\u00a0but not fulfilled their promise at the  start of the Contract to equip all Green Termination Boxes (GTBs) with a  Fibre feed. \u00a0(Some of you may remember that there was an old PO  Termination Box at the\u00a0side the road opposite to the entrance of the  Church but that was removed some 5 years ago &#8211; just before the push to  provide nationwide HSBB &#8211; leaving just a capped terminal junction  projecting above ground).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our  contact in Stillington is a member of the Villages Forum who meet  once\u00a0every three\u00a0months or so to review local projects and  developments.\u00a0At a recent meeting it\u00a0was  requested that they got to grips with the local problems with HSBB and  hold a Survey of who\u00a0is still waiting of a\u00a0reasonable level of  Broadband. This was accepted and although directed specifically at the  Stillington area it was hoped to be able to include the remainder of the  local Communities that do not have a reasonable level of Broadband in  the discussion. \u00a0Our contact is allocating\u00a0a  day per week to Broadband and is working to help\u00a0Villages such as  Farlington to acquire a level of reasonable Broadband speed so we hope  for\u00a0some more answers in the near future. \u00a0\u00a0There may also be an interim resolution for the problems at Farlington but that is\u00a0still being discussed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of the local residents who have lived in Farlington for more than two years may remember that David carried out a survey of the Broadband speeds that were available &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farlington.org.uk\/index.php\/2019\/09\/16\/broadband-for-farlington\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Broadband for Farlington&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parish","category-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.farlington.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.farlington.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.farlington.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.farlington.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.farlington.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.farlington.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1578,"href":"http:\/\/www.farlington.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.farlington.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.farlington.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.farlington.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}