Broadband speeds what do you get ?

[flashgordon1952]

always a sticky question this one being rural here in Essex we have certain restrictions ( ie long way from the BT Sky provider ) On a average day ie 0800 to 2300 BST we get around 70 to 75 on a poor day when kids are home from school go down to 55. Note we have fiber optic BT. . Up the road they have company called Giga (something) they get a minimum of 140 . But BT/Sky has refused them to come the 100 meters ,to us ( think that a bit unfair .
However ,back in the day we only got 17 to 20 . So have to be happy with our lot , and considering i have Amazon and Netflix added now . This clearly would not work .
The guys in Brentwood Essex ,clearly have much faster service, heard they go over 200 ( mind you that is what i was told ,by a resident ,who lives there..
Hold on ,i am sure the last Labour Government ,promised free broadband service at a faster speed . What happened guys ???
Where are those promises now ??? By the way i pay a total of £105 now for everything . Sky . but no films or sports

 

[Freddy]

I get 300.

 

[flashgordon1952]

ou are a well known member i would not expect anything less for you ! Offcourse the service is only as fast as your broadband connected device allows. Be it Sky Q Netflix or Amazon. . Where it is useful is when there are a number of connections using up the data . Sky Q in every room 2 kids internet netflix Disney Amazon etc. . Or a multiple resident occupants . Or running a small business. But that sounds very fast. I gather the current minister for electronics affairs ( we shall call him or her that) . Has said by 2030 (promised ) 1000 to every home . Now how do we get this . easy answer /. through the mains electrics at 240 50/60 hz . This would mean the electrics would carry the services needed. Instead of we have currently have ie wi fi . Somew years ago it was tried out and failed in a remote village by i believe Scottish power Some ten years back ? But there was a problem , the transmissions needed to contained . to stop interference. from other users . I seen myself the report that was made and quickly left on the shelf. But it does work or will work . No satellites no wi fi connections and no one using your broadband service illegally.

 

[flashgordon1952]

Free wi fi will be a thing of the past ! to be replaced by . If the potential new owner of TWITTER gets his hands on it. There is no doubt TWITTER will not be free . well not the full service , at least. . Next he will merge TV and other services to TWITTER. . ( by the way anyone notice him supporting the Russians yes there is a reason for this he wants to start a TWITTER type service in Russia too . And China . The problem is he has not made friends by saying this and in my view should keep away from politics or does he want to run as President , tes there has been many rumours that he might

 

[Friesiansam]

Try rural Somerset...

We were on 27mbps downstream but, over the last few months it has declined to 20mbps. Looks like it might soon go below our guaranteed minimum, so I'll be able to demand it gets fixed. Hopefully next year we will be able to get FTTP from Airband, with the option of up to 900mbps.

 

[Friesiansam]

Free wi fi will be a thing of the past ! to be replaced by . If the potential new owner of TWITTER gets his hands on it. There is no doubt TWITTER will not be free . well not the full service , at least. . Next he will merge TV and other services to TWITTER. . ( by the way anyone notice him supporting the Russians yes there is a reason for this he wants to start a TWITTER type service in Russia too . And China . The problem is he has not made friends by saying this and in my view should keep away from politics or does he want to run as President , tes there has been many rumours that he might

Typical super rich American, although South African by birth. So rich, that he is able to do what the hell he likes in the US and, now he thinks he he can do what the hell he likes everywhere.

 

[WayneKerr]

I guess it all depends on who you are with and what speed you expect/pay for.

I believe Gigaclear is the company you are referring to Flash. They made a right mess of my estate digging up the pavements and dumping their rubble outside my house on a piece of greensward I used to mow. To add insult to injury the idiots severed my line and I was out for 3 weeks, fortunately Now broadband were brilliant and I got a rebate on my bill. I vowed never to sign up with Gigaclear regardless of what they offer as they employ cowboys to dig their trenches, none of whom could speak English.

 

[flashgordon1952]

I guess it all depends on who you are with and what speed you expect/pay for.

I believe Gigaclear is the company you are referring to Flash. They made a right mess of my estate digging up the pavements and dumping their rubble outside my house on a piece of greensward I used to mow. To add insult to injury the idiots severed my line and I was out for 3 weeks, fortunately Now broadband were brilliant and I got a rebate on my bill. I vowed never to sign up with Gigaclear regardless of what they offer as they employ cowboys to dig their trenches, none of whom could speak English.

es it was them problem with them was the fact they took weeks to sort out the problems of holes in the road ( mostly have no pavements Think i stay with BT/SKy and keep ( they will not be allowed down here anyway . They are still in the area ( and loks like they have to make holes in peoples driveways

 

[ThisIsJimmy]

Hi Flash

Just to clarify this, do you have Fibre to the Premises, or Fibre to the Cabinet? If you have fibre into your house then the package speed you sign up to should be what is delivered into your house. If it's fibre to the cabinet, then you'll have degredation due to the copper that links your premises to the nearest green cabinet out on the road that the fibre is provided to. That loss of signal and degredation is also why mains electrics will never work reliably or at a decent speed as a form of transmitting electronic data, especially over distance.

 

[flashgordon1952]

Hi Flash

Just to clarify this, do you have Fibre to the Premises, or Fibre to the Cabinet? If you have fibre into your house then the package speed you sign up to should be what is delivered into your house. If it's fibre to the cabinet, then you'll have degredation due to the copper that links your premises to the nearest green cabinet out on the road that the fibre is provided to. That loss of signal and degredation is also why mains electrics will never work reliably or at a decent speed as a form of transmitting electronic data, especially over distance.

we have standard fiber what ever that is. supplied via BT?SKY There is Gigaclear what they are called about 150 meters away but they are n ot allowed to come down this road at all. So we will not get what they are offering ( rumour is they are in trouble with the Council over damage to driveways ) Speed to there customers is around 150 plus we get half they get , varies from 70 to 85 but can b e as low as 55 dowload

 

[ThisIsJimmy]

Standard Fibre will be FTTC, so not not a pure fibre connection which will explain your speed issue. Wont be helped if the contractors pulling the fibre up the road have damaged any of the copper in the road. Unfortunately their are alot of crazy contractors out and about. One bunch were pulling new fibres into our estate. When i pointed out to him that no-one would pay to hook up the new fibre because we already have FTTP fibre in our houses already, he wasn't impressed. I think much of the problem will be who is doing the planning and where they are based. Openreach have been making a right hash of their network and customer/project delivery since they outsourced their network planning to India during 2020. Doesn't take much to realise the chaos that has caused and the frustration their engineers have to deal with on most jobs they go to, and the break down in communication (or complete lack of) when dealing with private landowners and also local councils.

Gigaclear look to be very unique in that they have gone down the synchronous fibre route rather than leach off the asynchronous Openreach G.fast network. Also they seem to be able to offer that cheaper than most common providers. £26 for 600Mb syncronous Fibre is outrageously good value. It also looks like they have been pulling their own fibre network (like Virgin Media). This will give them the leverage to hop on and off the Openreach network as well as their own and they then are not dependant on 3rd parties to fix any cabling faults.

 

[flashgordon1952]

At this moment in time i am pleased to get now it is 70 mbs which is about right. highest i ever seen is 89 mbs and lowest is 50 mbs that is download speeds . Cannot complain at all. whether Gigaclear will be allowed down here from the top of the road is a matter of opinion . However there is local opposition , due to damage to driveways ( note this is semi rural here.

 

[Gray]

City Fibre spent millions disrupting my area - so now we're all ready for the fastest speeds.
I get constant mailings, from just about every ISP, with (what they describe as) special prices for super high speeds.

I'm not interested and I've got a feeling that, in my area, very few people are.

 

[flashgordon1952]

City Fibre spent millions disrupting my area - so now we're all ready for the fastest speeds.
I get constant mailings, from just about every ISP, with (what they describe as) special prices for super high speeds.

I'm not interested and I've got a feeling that, in my area, very few people are.

there is a ;point of too fast will not make any difference to a normal person who simply want s to go online just to download musicx