Broadband Internet Access
Due to the distance to the telephone exchange at nearby Garforth and the underlying TPON infrastructure, Micklefield was dependent on copper overlay providing broadband speeds well below the UK average until summer 2011. A local community broadband initiative based on fixed wireless technology was started in late 2009 to address the issue. This has now evolved into a commercial solution offered by LN Communications. More details about which can be found at the associated website. Fibre-optic broadband provided by British Telecom (BT Infinity) is now available. (As of March 2012). With download speeds of approx 75Mbit/s and Upload speeds in the region of 2Mbit/s. This is a tremendous improvement on the previous available bandwidth (via copper infrastructure) which was around 512kbit/s downstream and 128kbit/s upstream.
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