British farmer tired of slow internet built his own 4G telephone mast

60-year-old farmer Richard Guy has been experiencing slow internet speeds at home for years. After noticing that his mobile’s 4G internet connectivity was faster than the broadband connection provided by BT, he decided to built his own wooden telephone mast and attached a 4G adaptor to it. He now experiences perfect high-speed internet.

Richard Guy lives on an isolated farm in Salisbury Plain, and has been fighting with slow internet speeds for years. After noticing that his mobile’s 4G internet was significantly faster than BT’s broadband connection, he decided to find a way to route the signal to his farmhouse. To do so, he built a makeshift wooden telephone mast made up of a pair of wooden poles, in which he hooked a 4G dongle adaptor inside a waterproof toolbox, powered by a 12V battery and two solar panels. He then connected the mast to his home via a fiber-optic wire. He now experiences perfect internet connection at high speeds. The British government had said that the 2012 summer Olympics would bring fast broadband to everyone in Britain. No improvement were made in the area and so Mr. Guy handled things himself;

“So I decided to take matters into my own hands. We only had a 1 Mbps [megabits per second] speed, which means everything is far too slow. Now I run at 69 Mbps, it runs everything perfectly”

That is a significant internet speed difference compared to the average household speed of 25 Mbps.

The result was so successful that Mr. Guy and his wife Gilly decided to start a company called Agri-Broadband, which aims at providing super-fast internet connections to England’s most rural homes.

Source: SWNS TV (YouTube)
Via: DailyMail

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