Count yourself lucky, my broadband speed if I'm lucky will only be 2.5Mb/s
Like you I live in the backend of nowhere (a tiny village in Shropshire)Hang in there. There is new technology that was used in my area and others that spreads a fiber network cost effectively in rural areas.
I live in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere is west wales and they spread it to every nook and cranny.
I never thought I would see fiber here ever, let alone to my door step.
I think they call it fiber to the node. Instead of fiber to the cabinet first used in cities and large towns.
Fiber to the node is much cheaper to spread, it should end up everywhere or near everywhere eventually.
Like you I live in the backend of nowhere (a tiny village in Shropshire)
One can only hope, but to be honest I won't be holding my breath.
Count yourself lucky, my broadband speed if I'm lucky will only be 2.5Mb/s
300mbps here
Wow, how do you get that speed in Redruth,
I live in Camborne.
The Openreach site say we should have fibre in 4 months and it's already been 8+ months.
There is a whole thread about Talk Talk When they took over from Tesco.net, my BB speed slowly dropped from 2.5 to 0.1 !My one was previously 0.75. Yes that is less than 1 mbps
We currently get about 72 down and 18 up. As the fibre cabinet is less than 75m from my house, I enquired about the cost of getting fibre direct to the house instead of copper through Cerberus, as the BT wholesale site showed that 300/30 FTTPoD was available (https://www.btwholesale.com/includes/adsl/adsl.htm?s_cid=ws_furls_adslchecker). They came back with a quote of £12,800+VAT, plus connection fee then about £100/month. I think I'll do fine with what I have for just now
Pffft a measly 586 meg I get 1Gb at home on Hyperoptic.
72mbps here and I think that’s fine. I run an internet business from home, stream music, Netflix etc and have a teenager that thinks you have to download the entire internet daily and we do alright.
I can’t see the need amything faster.
Nope, Hyperoptic are a stand-alone company.Virgin media ? I don't see BT doing that ?
When we first moved into this house 15 years ago, the best I could get was about 33 Kb/s with a dial up modem with Virgin Media. About 9 years ago, our exchange was updated and we got about 400kb/s to 1 mb/s download again through Virgin Media broadband. This got worse at peak times (when schools came out and early evening) to the point it became unusable. When BT finally put in fibre cabinets in the village, I was one of the first to sign up, and it's been good since then. However, with 2 teenage sons and multiple devices, a bit more bandwidth would be nice and if FTTPoD was available at a sensible price I would go for that.I would feel bad for you but 72/18 is stupidly fast anyway. I have spent decades with internet that barely worked at all and only now getting good speed finally
At that price I would expect council permission and permits are required for excavation works.We currently get about 72 down and 18 up. As the fibre cabinet is less than 75m from my house, I enquired about the cost of getting fibre direct to the house instead of copper through Cerberus, as the BT wholesale site showed that 300/30 FTTPoD was available (https://www.btwholesale.com/includes/adsl/adsl.htm?s_cid=ws_furls_adslchecker). They came back with a quote of £12,800+VAT, plus connection fee then about £100/month. I think I'll do fine with what I have for just now
We currently get about 72 down and 18 up. As the fibre cabinet is less than 75m from my house, I enquired about the cost of getting fibre direct to the house instead of copper through Cerberus, as the BT wholesale site showed that 300/30 FTTPoD was available (https://www.btwholesale.com/includes/adsl/adsl.htm?s_cid=ws_furls_adslchecker). They came back with a quote of £12,800+VAT, plus connection fee then about £100/month. I think I'll do fine with what I have for just now
I don't believe so. There are ducts to all the houses from the cabinets. It would simply be running about 150m of fibre through the ducts to the house. The BT FTTPoD price structure changed in February this year, meaning you now get the option of a 12 month contract at much lower price, v's a cheaper install (several £k) previously, but tied to a 3 year contract at £300+/month. The new strtucture means you pay more up front, but save more longer term.At that price I would expect council permission and permits are required for excavation works.
I don't believe so. There are ducts to all the houses from the cabinets. It would simply be running about 150m of fibre through the ducts to the house.
I'd willingly take a drop in speed for reliability if VM wifi didn't drop so often, I'm now considering switching VM router to modem mode and getting a third party router. Any recommendations, not too expensive
I've got the Superhub 2, I've tried all the usual changing channels from auto to manual change various ones, relocating the SH2 . 5 ghz works sometimes when 2.4 ghz is down, sometimes 5 ghz drops intermittently too which makes me think it's not a interference problem from landlines handhelds etc. Router is wired to pc and no problems with that. When Wi-Fi does work the signal is strong.