Current Situation: 2021

Full Fibre to the Home (FTTH) as well as Fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) broadband  is now available in Wellington Heath. 

Another way of getting faster broadband is to subscribe to a satellite broadband service. This link answers some frequently asked questions about satellite broadband: Satellite broadband information.  The main problem is that such services are more expensive than cable based systems and there are download limits on contracts. There are several suppliers of satellite services this is a link to one such supplier: Example satellite broadband supplier.

FTTH

Gigaclear have now installed a fibre to the home network in the majority of the village.

You can check if improvements are available for your property by clicking of the following link to Fastershire: http://www.fastershire.com/

Also you can check whether you can get high speed fibre bradband by entering your postcode into the following webpage: https://www.gigaclear.com/home-broadband.

Speeds of up to 900 Mbps and more are available through Gigaclear.

Experience with gigaclear fibre to the home is available here: FTTH experience 1 and here FTTH experience 2 

FTTC

There is a fibre connection to the cabinet (cabinet 6 Ledbury Exchange) at the bottom of beggars ash and from there on it is copper wire to your house.

This means that download and upload speeds vary significantly according to how far away from the cabinet you live.

Those at the South end of the Village can expect significantly improved speeds if they opt for fibre to the cabinet broadband ( as the picture at the end of this article shows) but those at the top of the Common, for example, are only likely to improve speeds by about 25% at best. A word of caution though some people have found that their upload speed has reduced after switching to FTTC even though the download speed has increased. Speak to your Internet Service Provider (ISP) if this happens or better still check expected upload and download speeds before you switch.

Download speed / distance for normal broadband over copper cables under ideal circumstances is as follows. The cabinet is approximately 1.4 km from the exchange and the distance from the cabinet to the south end of the village is about 0.8 to 0.9 km and the the north end of the village it is about 1.9 to 2 km from the cabinet. These are straight line distances so the real length of the cables to your house will be longer.