29/11/2011 Richard Ednay, Greenbank, East Marton Presentation for - PDF document

29/11/2011 Richard Ednay, Greenbank, East Marton Presentation for parish council meeting 28 th November 2011 initial survey distributed & the responses collated and analysed not financially viable to link into the fibre along the A5 9 alternative option is a w ireless ‘backhaul’ a w ireless link can be beam ed over from another com m unity broadband netw ork in Bradley by a com pany called LN Com m s then they w ould create a local w ireless netw ork to provide broadband access to interested properties quite challenging in our local terrain 1

29/11/2011 LN Com m s are a rural com m unity broadband provider w w w .lncom m s.co.uk Their service is m arketed under the brand ‘I love broadband’ 1 4 netw orks spread across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Locally in Bradley/ Carleton. Craven council have dealt w ith them . 2

29/11/2011 Various residential packages are available A“Backhaul” antenna w ould need to be erected up near the TV m ast. Here are som e exam ples 3

29/11/2011 There w ould be som e equipm ent in an enclosure by the antenna and the antenna w ould need a 2 4 0 v pow er supply A pow er supply could be run up from Greenbank Cottage or Farm … “Repeater” antenna w ould need to go on a few key properties to give other properties line-of-sight to a signal. Here are som e exam ples. 4

29/11/2011 Then “receiver” units w ould need to go on each property connected. These are quite sm all as you can see here.... I nside the house you w ould have a w all socket sim ilar to w hat you have w ith fixed line broadband such as BT. You can also choose to have a w ireless router to enable internet access around the house 5

29/11/2011 decide w hether the com m unity w ants to try and proceed gain approval to put the backhaul antenna up and sort out about getting pow er to it gain agreem ent from the first couple of key properties in East Marton w here repeater antenna w ould be needed once those approvals are in place then LN Com m s w ill com e back and do a rooftops survey to w ork out the next repeater locations to cover the rest of the parish Thank you Any questions? The w ebsite has just been updated w ith details of the project status 6