Wales' highest house gets fastest broadband
The farmhouse lies in the Cwm Brwnynog valley below the 1,085m summit of Yr Wyddfa.
Memories of school still linger for the 20-year-old, growing up without access to social media or the internet at home. "It was very hard, trying to get hold of the recruiters, them trying to get hold of me - and I didn't know for days.Hafodty is now connected to full fibre broadbandIt is a one gigabit fibre optic broadband link, which is about 10 times faster than normal broadband speeds.
Connecting their home is part of a much wider project to bring ultrafast broadband to the buildings on the summit of the mountain. “To say that bringing full fibre to the top of Yr Wyddfa is a huge task is an understatement," said Suzanne Rutherford, Openreach's chief engineer for Wales.
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