About Broadband details affecting Stourpaine
Wessex Internet are about to provide full fibre broadband into Stourpaine. A number of existing wireless broadband Customers have already signed.
There will be a meeting to hear about Wessex Internet‘s plans in the White Horse Inn on Monday 20 March 2023 from 18:00 to 19:30.
Worth considering aggregating our Vouchers towards getting Fibre to the Premises through Wessex Internet:
Digital Champions and how this army of volunteers is helping people all around Dorset to improve their digital skills.
We have a Digital Champion in our area; please feel free to drop in and see him:
Dan Lamkin
Every 4th Monday
16:00 to 18:00
Blandford Library
Superfast Dorset, Dorset Council 01258 484363
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Be advised that BT is now offering BT Infinity for Stourpaine. Five years on!
It has a 25% Welcome Discount, which I have checked applies even if you have “Unlimited Broadband” (not fibre) already.
Visit: http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/broadband-packages/#packages
We do have an alternative using wessexinternet (wireless): https://www.wessexinternet.com/superfast-home-broadband/?pp=content
wessexinternet offer VoIP (Vonage Phone), which could replace your BT (or other) landline.
The choice (at last) is there but you should consider, upload and download speeds, latency, tied services (Landline, current email provider) against the cost (or saving) for each service.
You may well have read in the media about the successful international operation led by the FBI that had taken control of the GameOver Zeus botnet, a network of captured computers used to steal millions of pounds from individuals and small businesses around the world. An infected computer can also suffer a secondary attack by a piece of malware referred to as CryptoLocker which results is a victims files all being encrypted. Once encrypted a message appears seeking payment of a ransom if the user wants to access their files again. This encryption cannot be broken without the password (or key) held by criminals.
Dorset Police is strongly advising computer owners, who may not even realise they have the malware, to take steps now to remove the infection and protect themselves from future attacks. It is estimated that the criminals will probably be up and running again in about two weeks.
Whilst, it is hoped that the owners of infected systems will be advised that they have of the malware by their ISP, Dorset Police strongly recommends that computers users go to:
or
https://www.getsafeonline.org/nca/
and follow the instructions given to check for and remove the malware.
This warning is not intended to cause you panic but we cannot over-stress the importance of taking these steps immediately.
And remember, if you don’t make an effort to clean up malware from your own computer, you may become a victim or at the very least your computer will become part of the problem.
A/DCI P Little
Public Protection
Dorset Police
Just to advise that the links in this portal will remain on the website as they have some general interest – Trailway.
If you want to know the current situation, please now link into https://www.dorsetforyou.com/superfast.
From: info@northdorsetbroadband.co.uk
Dear Supporter,
The Trailway Broadband Project.Over the last nine months we have struggled to make sense of the contradictory messages coming from BDUK and DEFRA.
In February, there was a fundamental interpretation of one of the three basic criteria required to access the Rural Community Broadband Fund. We were one of six projects that had developed projects in such a way that we would have been eligible to access this fund. The changes announced by the RCBF team meant that, in order to qualify, we would have had to reduce the area covered by the project to the extent that there was no longer a sound business case.
We have taken the issue up to ministerial and Secretary of State level. Regrettably, in spite of considerable efforts to repair the damage, it is now clear that we will not be able to access RCBF funds. This applies to five of the other projects.
Rather than continuing to struggle on, we have decided to admit defeat.
This does not mean that you will miss out on improved broadband. The DCC programme, Superfast Dorset will cover all of the Trailway project area. Interestingly, our area will get greater coverage than the rest of rural Dorset.
We would very much like to take this opportunity to thank you for all your work and support which got the project to within a whisker of succeeding.
On behalf of all the team
Scott Norman
Chair of the Trailway Broadband Project and of DT11 Community Partnership
DT11 Forum Community Partnership AGM
Held on Wednesday 10th April 2013 at 7.00pm,
Durweston Village Hall
Minutes
DT11 Forum Community Partnership AGM
Held on Wednesday 10th April 2013 at 7.00pm,
Durweston Village Hall
Agenda
RSVP
Dear Resident,
During the last few months you have registered an interest in the Trailway to the Future broadband project, and last week we invited you to a meeting where we would explain the various ways that you could invest in the project.
We had our first meeting this Wednesday morning which was very well attended and generated a lot of useful Q&A and discussion. However, a number of you had suggested that an evening meeting would be more convenient, and we have therefore arranged for a follow up session next Wednesday evening, 20th March at 6.00pm in the New Parish Rooms in Blandford DT11 7DN. The Parish Rooms are situated directly opposite the main Post Office.
We have set up two very straightforward means to invest on a tax-efficient basis, within the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) framework: either via a Fund, where your money is invested across a diversified range of rural broadband projects, of which The Trailways is one of the largest; or directly into North Dorset Broadband, via the www.fundthegap.com website. The meeting on Wednesday will discuss the project itself, the investment proposition, and the mechanics of actually investing – all in a ‘user-friendly’ way!
The Trailways project has been community-led from the start, and its prospects will be even further enhanced if it can also be substantially community-owned. Your support is therefore very important!
We look forward to seeing you on the 20th. Please RSVP to info@northdorsetbroadband.co.uk
Best regards,
Steve Adamson
Project Team Leader
Trailway to the Future Project
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