Ringmer is well connected if the connection you need is a fibre-optic cable. Under one percent of residents commute by train. About one in thirty-five takes a bus. Just under half drive to work. Full-fibre gigabit covers two-thirds of postcodes, and over a third of the village works from home, which is what happens when the nearest railway station is a bus ride or a car park away.
The rail picture is that the village doesn't have its own station. The nearest platforms are at Cooksbridge, Glynde and Lewes, and Lewes is the workable one for a regular commute. Only about one in a hundred residents actually uses a train to get to work, which is a low number by any commuter-belt standard and reflects the friction of the leg to the station before the actual train. Buses cover about fifteen stops within the parish area, and just under one in thirty-five residents commutes by bus. The rural bus timetable does what rural bus timetables do, which is exist without being especially frequent. The people who move here for a village life understand this before they buy. The people who realise it after they buy tend to bring it up unprompted.
Broadband is the redeeming feature. Full-fibre gigabit reaches about two-thirds of the village's roughly one hundred and twenty postcodes. Superfast covers essentially all of them. Not a single postcode falls below the universal service obligation minimum, so the working-from-home crowd is served across the parish. Mobile coverage is comprehensive too, with every postcode having at least one operator providing high-speed mobile data, and nearly all of them having all four operators. If your commute is to a laptop on a kitchen table, Ringmer is well set up.
Getting about is otherwise a car exercise. Lewes town centre is about fourteen minutes by car and around twenty-seven by public transport, which is the sort of gap that tells you which mode most people default to. The walking equivalent clocks in over an hour, which explains why almost nobody walks it. Just under half the village drives to work. About one in fifteen walks. Cycling picks up under two in a hundred. The traffic engineering assumes you have a car, and the daily rhythm confirms it.
Ringmer is a two-out-of-five for connectivity, and the shape of that rating is broadband dragging up the rail and bus scores rather than the other way round. If the office is remote, the village is well set up for you. If the office is at the end of a train line and the train line matters, the location will cost you time every working day.