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West Haddon

dishFeedHalf an hour up the M1 is the Northants village of West Haddon. Fed up to the hilt not being able to get broadband, eleven residents have chipped in to form "West Haddon and Winwick Community Broadband Ltd."

We were kindly invited to attend the public launch of the West Haddon and Winwick Community Broadband Service on Friday 3rd October 2003.

The service is run on a not for profit basis and costs £27 per month, with a £100 set-up fee.

 

Connectivity

VanyagiAramiska provide a satellite link to a director's house in West Haddon.

802.11 Wi-Fi is used to link with other nodes in the village, and to provide the link to the neighbouring village of Winwick, 2 km away. 

 

Press Coverage

West Haddon wireless service goes live

'Broadband Hero' gets his fat pipe

Northants villages set up own BB network

Villages bypass BT for broadband
 

Links

Hot Wireless Ltd (Nick Kett's company that provides and installs Wi-Fi equipment.)

Pipemedia

West Haddon and Winwick Community Broadband Ltd

www.jades.co.uk/westhaddon/broadband.html

Poynyting

and, not least, http://www.jades.co.uk/whwcb/

Thanks to Terry Cavender for alerting us [Richard (your group secretary) and Nick (your group coordinator)].

Thanks to Trevor Sherman for inviting us to the launch of the service, and also to West Haddon and Winwick Community Broadband Ltd for providing tea, biscuits and lots of squishy chocolate cake.

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