Well by broadband, not by rail. There is no station in the village. Fewer than one in a hundred residents commutes by train, and about the same share commutes by bus. Over half drive to work, and more than a third work from home. Gigabit broadband reaches nine in ten postcodes. Connected in the sense that a laptop works from any address here. Less connected in the sense that a rail commute does not.
The nearest platforms sit at Shoreham-by-Sea and at Southwick, both a drive south. The village itself has no rail infrastructure of any kind. Fewer than one in a hundred residents who work from a home in Upper Beeding get to work by train, which is what "no station" translates to in behaviour rather than in geography. Buses fare no better. About eight bus stops sit inside the village boundary, but under one percent of residents commute by bus. The public-transport journey to the nearest town centre takes about seventeen minutes against ten by car, close enough not to matter for a short hop and not close enough to sway anyone with a driveway. For anything longer than a hop to the next town, public transport here is a fallback rather than a plan.
Broadband is the strong side of the picture. Gigabit fibre reaches about nine in ten postcodes across the village, and superfast covers everything. No home here sits below the national minimum service obligation. A laptop workday will run without complaint from any address, and the third of the workforce that works from home is doing so on infrastructure the 1930 village hall would not have imagined possible. Mobile signal covers the entire village on at least one operator, and every operator reaches almost every corner. Whatever the timetable says about railways, the fibre says something more confident about staying put.
For a typical commute, the honest picture is a car-and-laptop village. Over half the working population drives to work. A third work from home. Under five percent walk. Under two percent cycle. Fewer than one in fifty use a train or a bus. The nearest town centre is a ten-minute drive or a seventeen-minute public-transport hop. The nearest secondary school is about eleven minutes by car or eighteen by public transport. Anything further afield involves a longer drive or a change or two on the way to the coast. A resident who does not own a car and does not work from home is a resident who has arranged their life around neighbours, timetables, and a lot of forward planning. The behaviour of the population reflects the geometry: this is a village on a road, not on a railway.
The connectivity verdict lands at two-and-a-half out of five, average. Strong on broadband and mobile. Weak on rail. Serviceable on buses at the local scale, unusable at the regional one. If your working life happens on a screen and your weekend life happens in a car, this village fits. If your working life needs a train and your weekend life needs an airport, it does not.