Fibre broadband

[martint235]

I've moved out of the city & into the sticks, used to get 300mb/s on cable, now get 50mb/s. I've gone back in time 10 years.

You lucky, lucky so and so. I live in the capital and can't get fibre or cable so my average speed is currently 4mb

 

[Doseone]

We are in the sticks, but are very lucky to have benefited from the Welsh Government Superfast Cymru scheme. So we have fibre to the premises and could have speeds of 330mb, but I've only gone for 80mb which is plenty. We can have all four of us watching streaming video at the same time and it doesn't skip a beat. Real life speeds are actually 80mb via a wired ethernet connection, but wifi depending where you are in the house varies between 45mb and 25mb.
We are one of the lucky ones though, whether you get FTTP under the scheme seems completely random, with some of our closer neighbours not getting it and still stuck on 1mb connections.

 

[swee'pea99]

Snail mail is quicker ! Blimey thats slow.

You young whippersnappers...I still remember splashing the cash on a 'super-fast' 128kbps modem. Compared to the 56 kbps one we had before it was a transformation!

 

[Milzy]

We are in the sticks, but are very lucky to have benefited from the Welsh Government Superfast Cymru scheme. So we have fibre to the premises and could have speeds of 330mb, but I've only gone for 80mb which is plenty. We can have all four of us watching streaming video at the same time and it doesn't skip a beat. Real life speeds are actually 80mb via a wired ethernet connection, but wifi depending where you are in the house varies between 45mb and 25mb.
We are one of the lucky ones though, whether you get FTTP under the scheme seems completely random, with some of our closer neighbours not getting it and still stuck on 1mb connections.

Wales and Scotland are always better than England for most things O_o

 

[Electric_Andy]

[QUOTE 4713534, member: 9609"]0.7 to 3.5 here, often dies completely this time of the evening. - 9,700m line length apparently .[/QUOTE]
This is the bit that sickens me. My parents only live about 4 miles from "the exchange", whatever that is. But they can only get 2.5mb maximum. My Dad spent a lot of time looking into it, and was finally told it's so slow because the BT engineers scorched the cables at the exchange. No bother, accidents happen, why wasn't it fixed then? That was two years ago and nothing has changed. You don't really know who to believe though, as the ISP will probably blame BT and vice versa (unless your ISP is actually BT, then who knows?)

SO, a workshy layabout who lives in the city (for free) can get 50meg, but the wealthy who can afford to live in a nice country cottage have to put up with terrestrial Telly and slow internet. It's not right.

 

[fossyant]

You young whippersnappers...I still remember splashing the cash on a 'super-fast' 128kbps modem. Compared to the 56 kbps one we had before it was a transformation!

I remember our 56k modem.

 

[smutchin]

I've moved out of the city & into the sticks, used to get 300mb/s on cable, now get 50mb/s. I've gone back in time 10 years.

50mb/s? Luxury. I'm lucky if I get a handful of freezing cold gravel... er, sorry, I meant 12mb/s.

We live about a mile from the cabinet, which is stretching the limits of the tech. But at least it is fibre as far as the cabinet, because the exchange is over 6 miles away. We barely got 1mb/s before they installed the fibre. I dream of the day we get fibre all the way to the house.

 

[r04DiE]

76mg here and thats the fastest we can get. No virgin.

I'd prefer the latter.

 

[PaulSecteur]

Remember dial up?

Yes, and i miss the modem connecting noise too.

Bing-chong-glurururu-bong.

Ah, goog old days.

 

[cyberknight]

I'm in Hicksville, never see less than 55. With multiple devices and two internet TV's it never causes problems. It's well in excess of my ability to consume it.

I guess its down to distance from the cabinet , no cable out here either . FIL lives up the road and he gets about 80 .
I was just pointing out that the OP was unhappy with the speed you get

 

[martint235]

Yes, and i miss the modem connecting noise too.

Bing-chong-glurururu-bong.

Ah, goog old days.

It certainly kept internet usage under control not just because of the speed but because it wasn't just a case of turning the PC on as now. You had to wait for Windows to load, launch the connection, connect, watch Windows drop the connection cos of some weird hissy fit, connect again then try to remember what you'd come to look up in the first place.

 

[Rezillo]

2.5 mb/s here, and as we're the closest to the exchange in our village (it's two miles away), that's the fastest speed here! It's not as if we're that remote - a village a few miles north of Ipswich. There's a much bigger village of several hundred people closer to the exchange but they are also stuck with adsl and a max of around 5mb/s. We can just about use SD iplayer if nothing else is using the bandwidth.

 

[Rezillo]

[QUOTE 4714700, member: 45"]What's your 4G coverage like?[/QUOTE]
I can get (unreliable) 4G EE coverage from one corner of one bedroom. Given the right weather and an Ebay data card in my ipad, I can download the occasional huge Windows and phone updates using the ipad as a hotspot but it's not reliable enough to use a mobile-based router full time. Vodafone - no 3g coverage, let alone 4g. Three - 3g coverage outside but we use one of their femtocell gadgets that connects to our network.

The Openreach number checker for superfast broadband has moved us to "build" status but as that was where it was two years ago before going back to "Exploring solutions", I've no great faith in its accuracy.

 

[martint235]

Now that you mention openreach I went to check and we've gone back from build to field survey.

I thought the Govt was doing something about this crud

 

[ColinJ]

Ooh, my cabinet is now officially at the 'design' stage, with fibre BB available in the coming year!

They put the plastic pipes for the fibre in a few weeks ago - LINK.

I am only about 200 metres from the cabinet so hopefully I will get full speed.