Does anyone else recall the deal with fibre broadband?

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

I've just done a test setup of our new TP-Link NX200 5G SIM router (~£190 from Amazon) with a Three SIM supplied directly from Scancom, one-off fee of £90 for 500GB per month until Jul '28 (it would have been ~£140 for SIM from their Amazon shop, lots of links to direct Scancom deals at HotUKDeals dot com).

The SIM thankfully arrived today having ordered it on Friday, because when I saw it was sent via Royal Mail, I had visions of waiting for it until very close to Xmas!

Literally a case of setting it up while doing as little as possible to our existing landline NowTV BB, taking the PC's cat5 cable out of the NowTV router and putting it in the NX200, which isn't in an optimal position for this test due to free electric point limitations.

I'm not as PC savy as I used to be, but getting this setup working to a wired connection to my pc was very simple. There's a firmware upgrade option that I can either let the route upgrade itself, or I can go to the TP-Link site and download a firmware file, but I'm doing neither for now. When I do, it keeps config settings.

While the https://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest results are nothing like as good as I've had on my 5G mobile's Three SIM, but still a respectable ~82/30Mbps compared to our NowTV ~25/6Mbps, the latency for gaming in Rocket League was a rock solid 28-32ms. A quick 800MB download from Steam had a max download speed of 14.8MB/sec, approx 5x quicker than our landline NowTV can manage.

So early days, but happy days so far, looking good to give NowTV 30 days notice in about a week's time if things still look good.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

We have had 2 lots of engineers come out to install 'full fibre*' they keep wanting to stick a big ugly box on the wall outside a bit like the old Sky/BSB fitters of yore, I've told em to go away (in less polite language) they either fit it where I want and where it is tucked away or we'll change provider.

* the box has been sitting in the hall for over 3 years, still in its packaging.

I've had my providers ring me up and say we can do full fibre for the same price you are paying for the standard connection.I ask them what that actually entails.They say we'll have to put a box in by the front door and drill some holes in the brickwork.......Boss said NO!

 

[raleighnut]

I've had my providers ring me up and say we can do full fibre for the same price you are paying for the standard connection.I ask them what that actually entails.They say we'll have to put a box in by the front door and drill some holes in the brickwork.......Boss said NO!

Pretty much the same as here.