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I have been doing quite a bit of research recently into fibre optic and openreach/virgin etc.

I am moving house and figured now was the time to go for Fibre Optic connection speeds. Up to 76mbps I hoped.

I had an office very near my new house which I have recently closed. However, before I closed the office, I saw the bt lot installing the fibre optic cables in the cabinet, which was right outside the office

I have since checked the landline number for the office, which I still have and can see that the fibre is in place and is available up to 76mbps.

Unfortunately my new house is 1.5 miles from the office and is up a private road, where there are quite a few houses in a little hamlet.

The internet speed there is baffling. Adsl I am told from my searches is available, ata whopping 1MB.....disaster

However, fibre is also available, at a similarly disastrous 3MB

I can only assume that the distance to the cabinet and the quality of wiring is the problem here.

Having a Playstation and spending a lot of time online and downloading films on Apple TV etc, I need a decent connection.

In my current place I have an 8mb speedtest.net result and that sometimes isn't fast enough... 1mb will be worse than useless, and paying fibre prices for 3mb isn't much better.

Is it possible to upgrade the wiring from the cabinet to the house? If so, how much would it realistically cost? I imagine I will be able to persuade the little community to chip in for the upgrade.

Also, the cabinet results confuse me, as they show the low download rates but suggest fibre is available. Surely if the cabinet is fibre enabled it would suggest that 76 is available, just not to my home as the wiring from cabinet to the housess poor. The cabinet is connected to the same exchange as the office cabinet is which states 76...

Any ideas?

Also, if the cost is ridiculous, can anyone suggest a way around this? 3G dongles any better? Is there an unlimited 4G dongle? As bizarrely this is in an area which has 4G capability.