High Speed Internet for Tobermory Bay.
All businesses and households now rely on high quality Internet for Business, Learning and Leisure needs. Whilst a lot of the UK, and Scotland has Fibre Optics to the premises now (FTTP), sadly a high percentage of Tobermory has only ‘copper the last mile’ which is known as ADSL/FTTC.
From Wednesday 15th July 2026 we are pleased to announce that with a collaboration between Scottish Sea Farms (SSF), Drimnin Community Broadband, Tobermory Harbour Association (THA), Park Lodge Hotel (PLH) a new Wireless Internet Service Provision (WISP) can deliver 50/50 or 100/100Mbps – that is 100Mbps download, and 100Mbps upload – as long as you can ‘see’ THA or PLH. This Project is being led by Positec (UK) Ltd & Salen Pier Holidays – Peter Stanhope.
Available services…
- 50/50Mbps with unlimited data, high speed router,
- 100/100Mbps with unlimited data, high speed router,
- Greater bandwidth options can be solutioned,
- Advise/Project Management for WiFi6 Access Points, Ethernet Switches, LAN upgrades, VOIP to keep your working Tobermory number, Battery backup (UPS’s) and general IT Infrastructure solutions.
The team members all have a vast experience in data networks, spanning 40+ years.
Some technical information: We are using a ‘leased line’ fibre service direct from Tobermory to the Internet at 1,000/1,000bps, or often known as 1G/1G bps = fast! This is a leased line, so no sharing access to the Internet = no contention on it. This we can share with our customers, including, for example, Salen Pier Holidays having a 100/100Mbps service – for the 24+ guests!
The above speeds are what we have ‘live’ from the service testing on Tuesday 14th July 2026.
No service is ever 100% guaranteed, but we build services to 99.999% reliability. With SSF being a major user of the infrastructure then ‘uptime’ is critical, and monitored 24/7.
Some advantages of this service…
- Much higher speed than ‘copper’ ADSL/FTTC,
- Less affected by lightning – copper cable conducts electricity, fibre/glass cannot,
- Battery backup for all the owned nodes – approx. 20hr prior to a generator being needed,
- Can use WiFi6 access points for the enhanced WiFi experience – speed,
- Community delivered – support technician on the island.
An example of where this helped: During the recent lightning damage in the Salen/Craignure area (June 2026) we enabled a ‘free to use’ emergency WiFi service at Salen Pier Holidays – SSID: ‘Mull Emergency’. Going forward we will be able to offer this at Park Lodge and down at the harbour – helping each other in the time of need. Other sites can be included with the right equipment to assist the coverage.
If you would like more information please feel free to eMail, WhatsApp or call…….
Implementation successes…..
