Adequately, if your work happens on a screen. Badly, if it depends on a train. About half a percent of residents commute by rail, and there is no station in the area itself because the line that once served the seafront was closed in the 1930s. Roughly one in three work from home, which is the dominant non-driving mode here. The connectivity verdict splits clean down the middle: physical-out is awkward, digital-out is excellent.
Rail is a story that ended ninety years ago. The seaside-resort era of the 1880s and 1890s brought a railway along with the pier. That line is gone and has not been replaced. The nearest functioning stations are Fareham, Swanwick, Bursledon, and Portchester, all of which sit a meaningful drive away from the seafront. That makes the rail commute a multi-stage exercise rather than a single station-to-train decision. The figures bear out the consequence: about half a percent of working residents take a train and about one percent take a bus. There are roughly eighty bus stops within the area's mapped extent. The routes exist. The share of residents who use them is small for reasons that are not mysterious.
The broadband is where the connectivity story brightens. About 98 in every 100 premises can buy a gigabit-fibre connection. Full coverage of the area reaches at least superfast speeds. None of the postcodes sit below the universal service obligation. Mobile signal works across the whole area on at least one network, and across every network too. For anyone who needs the network to commute on their behalf, the network is more than capable.
A typical journey into the borough's town-centre core takes about ten minutes by car. The same trip by public transport takes about eighteen. The neighbouring towns and the motorway sit a similar drive away. Reaching anywhere with a station turns into a drive-then-rail combination rather than a single ticket. The drive-to-work share runs at roughly half of working residents, and the work-from-home share runs at roughly a third. Walking and cycling together account for a single-digit share between them. None of the lines on the public-transport map turn this into a city-friendly commute postcode, and the data is unambiguous about that.
This is connectivity defined more by what the area is near than by what runs through it. The car is doing most of the practical heavy lifting that an inhabited rail line would otherwise do, and the broadband is doing the rest. Anyone moving here on the assumption that the lost railway is about to come back will be waiting longer than most mortgages.
Connected enough to work from, not enough to commute out of properly. The broadband is doing the heavy lifting that the railway used to do, which is a sentence the 1880s would not have understood.