According to local business Managing Director Martin Dibben from Shy Uk \u201cOur search for a faster and more reliable internet connection has been driven by the fact that so many modern business systems are moving to the Cloud. We\u2019ve been developing our own Cloud-based IT system and will move over to Cloud-based telephony in the near future. We wouldn\u2019t have been able to confidently do these things with the old copper wire connection. It was painfully slow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Steve Waters our business manager says \u201cbusinesses in the area were desperate to find a way of getting a more reliable and faster internet connection. The Wilbury Way estate is situated on the outskirts of town, and a long way from the main Telephone Exchange. Unfortunately for them, it meant slow and poor quality ADSL Broadband speeds and no access to fibre broadband in the foreseeable future\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Steve Continues \u201cBT were unable or unwilling to provide a date for upgrading the Wilbury Way cabinet to Superfast Fibre (FTTC) broadband. Our experience shows that they rarely upgrade small industrial estate cabinets because the number of premises connected to a cabinet are too few (compared to a populated residential area) and hence BT\u2019s return on investment is low. This is a problem we also see at businesses and residences within rural communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IDNet laid a full fibre-optic bearer cable right up into the heart of the estate. From there a high-powered \u2018EtherWiFi\u2019 narrow-beam signal is beamed to any building wishing to benefit from the service. Available internet speeds are now at least ten times faster than they were before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere is nothing stopping other industrial estates with connectivity issues doing the same thing. Particularly those on the outskirts of towns or in rural areas.\u201d Remarks Steve Waters. Thanks to IDNet, Wilbury Way Industrial Estate in Hitchin now has its own wireless internet network. The signal covers the whole estate and provides amazingly fast internet access to businesses who had previously struggled with a poor land line service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"\n
\u201cIt becomes cost effective once around half a dozen businesses decide they want to do it. Any business interested in adopting a similar \u2018EtherWiFi\u2019 solution in their neighbourhood can get in touch with me at IDNet and I\u2019ll point them in the right direction.\u201dThe final word goes to another enthusiastic Wilbury Way tenant. Jennifer Blacow, Office Manager at CADlink commented. \u201cIn our business we work with large graphics files all the time, this new service means we can upload and download files much faster. The speeds have been even better than expected. We\u2019ve been waiting for a solution like this for years and now, thanks to IDNet, it\u2019s finally happened! It\u2019s going to make a huge difference.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"