From 0.1Mbps to 300+: How a Rural Car Dealer Got High-Speed Internet

Company

Carbee Ltd

Industry

Automotive

Location

Boston, Lincolnshire

Website

Description

CarBee, a family-run business, sells top-quality pre-owned cars and offers performance and styling parts for various car brands.

The Business: Cars and Parts in the Middle of Nowhere

CarBee sells premium pre-owned cars and high-performance parts from rural Lincolnshire. They run an office, a workshop, and even a home 300 metres away. Three separate locations that need to talk to each other.

But they're miles from fibre. Miles from proper infrastructure. When you're in the middle of the countryside trying to run a modern business, connectivity isn't optional—it's everything.

The Problem: BT's Best Offer Was Useless

BT offered 0.1Mbps. That's not a typo. In the 21st century, BT's best effort was essentially nothing. CarBee needed to monitor their car lot with CCTV. They needed WiFi in the workshop. Their home needed reliable internet. One tenth of a megabyte per second wouldn't do any of that.

The Solution: Radio Links, CCTV, and WiFi Across the Whole Site

Integra bonded 4G/5G connections over SD-WAN to deliver over 300Mbps. But that's just the start. They installed radio links across 300 metres to connect the workshop. They set up CCTV monitoring for the car lot. WiFi blanketed the office. And the home got its own secure connection.

Now every part of the site works together seamlessly. Business moves at the speed of the internet, not the slow creep of 0.1Mbps.