SootySport Posted October 3, 2016 Posted October 3, 2016 Coming soon to your street 100meg. to 1Gb. when the nodes have been set up in your street. Personally I can't think of what peeps could do with all that bandwidth. Quote
Captain Colonial Posted October 4, 2016 Posted October 4, 2016 Well, I'm on 158Mb at the moment - make your own judgements. Quote
Rory's Dad Posted October 4, 2016 Posted October 4, 2016 Side valve broadband in Norfolk but upgrade coming but still likely to be in single figures. Quote
ptownsin Posted October 4, 2016 Posted October 4, 2016 Don't get me started. It's taken more than a year from when the salesman promised it would be live. Should be live today but still no sign. 1Gb... We'll see. Quote
Mark (smokey mow) Posted October 4, 2016 Posted October 4, 2016 Oh good, so even faster broadband is being given to those who already have a pretty good service but those of us that live outside of a town will continue to make do with a mediocre service but still pay the same as everyone else. 4 Quote
Rory's Dad Posted October 4, 2016 Posted October 4, 2016 It's all wrong. BT should concentrate on high speed broadband at the expense of everything else. Quote
SootySport Posted October 4, 2016 Author Posted October 4, 2016 Oh good, so even faster broadband is being given to those who already have a pretty good service but those of us that live outside of a town will continue to make do with a mediocre service but still pay the same as everyone else. You're absolutely right Mark. More customers in an urban area make bigger profits. Quote
potster Posted October 4, 2016 Posted October 4, 2016 Sootysport. Do you have anymore details on this? Ideally need a faster connection for work and this could be just the ticket. Ta Quote
DonPeffers Posted October 4, 2016 Posted October 4, 2016 I get about 3 Mb and provider recently tried to get me onto a 24 month 2.0 to 5.0 Mb deal at lower cost than i'm on now. I declined as don't like long contracts and possibly something faster is on the way--here's hoping. Quote
Lawrie Posted October 4, 2016 Posted October 4, 2016 Having fast (most of the time) broadband, it seems to work well, buts is slowed down as many ordinary sites contain annoying video adverts, and its the video that slows it down. BBC iPlayer HD etc works fine except on a Friday/Saturday night when there's nothing on, so everybody hooks in, and it jams solid at the BBC. I'd heard that BT stopped laying cable/fibre because the government expected them to rent it to their competitors for next to nothing, and they just couldn't fund it alone. This was cleared about 5 years ago, so the internet is now climbing out of the 20th century, both in the country and in terms of speed, but we're a long way behind Korea (South not North) Quote
SootySport Posted October 5, 2016 Author Posted October 5, 2016 Well, I'm on 158Mb at the moment - make your own judgements. You must on Virgin then. It's fibre to the cabinet and co-ax to your house, not fibre all the way. Sootysport. Do you have anymore details on this? Ideally need a faster connection for work and this could be just the ticket. Ta Depends where you live, the more urban, the faster you'll get. FTTC fibre to the cabinet will get you up to 80meg. down/20meg.up. You can ask your service provider which technology you can receive at present. Having fast (most of the time) broadband, it seems to work well, buts is slowed down as many ordinary sites contain annoying video adverts, and its the video that slows it down. BBC iPlayer HD etc works fine except on a Friday/Saturday night when there's nothing on, so everybody hooks in, and it jams solid at the BBC. I'd heard that BT stopped laying cable/fibre because the government expected them to rent it to their competitors for next to nothing, and they just couldn't fund it alone. This was cleared about 5 years ago, so the internet is now climbing out of the 20th century, both in the country and in terms of speed, but we're a long way behind Korea (South not North) Same as me at w/ends, still streams ok but with a little pause very occasional. Fibre cabinets are still being set up by Openreach, funded by BT, EU, regional authorities and local communities, nothing to do with opening up the infrastructure to other comms. companies. Service Providers such as Sky, Carphone Warehouse & Post Office already lease ccts. by the million. It has been pointed out to Ofcom that allowing non Openreach engineers to install extra line plant in the infrastructure will be damaging existing line plant. Yes it will be cheaper to do such work but would anyone fancy unlicensed workman on a minimum wage meddling with existing working circuits. The negotiating still continues on that score. Rock on our backward country ... The UK has the cheapest broadband bills in the developed world. If you are trying to compare the UK speeds to small densely populated countries such as Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong & Taiwan, it's a little unfair. Quote
dombanks Posted October 5, 2016 Posted October 5, 2016 No I'm comparing the fact that I go a few miles out of leicester or into north wales or at parents house or at my sisters village and I get chuff all phone signal. Broadband is pants even when you're not far from an exchange yet when I went to the middle of nowhere on a boat on a river in Northern Burma or my partner is in the fields of Northern India where a loo was the hole you dug amd the people didn't have a pot to p*** in I could get phone signal It's indicative of a private network owed by companies whose bottom line is a share holder not the infrastructure. Yet if govt tried to do something it's shouted down as not allowing free competition. Well b*****k* to free competition when the companies won't do anything about poor service. I can see a telephone mast 20m from my parents back door. I remember it being put up. But hey why would there be any unilateral agreement to use other networks cells? No profit right It stretches beyond broadband. Uber is shouted down by black cab drivers who charge too much or worse won't do small journeys as "it's too close" Arriva own the busses charge a fortune for a service that is unreliable and not very user friendly. There is no incentive or mandate for the busier routes ro subsidise rural or lesser used routes... Why is it cheaper to get split fare train tickets rather than a standard return? The list goes on amd on ... Quote
SootySport Posted October 6, 2016 Author Posted October 6, 2016 No I'm comparing the fact that I go a few miles out of leicester or into north wales or at parents house or at my sisters village and I get chuff all phone signal. Broadband is pants even when you're not far from an exchange yet when I went to the middle of nowhere on a boat on a river in Northern Burma or my partner is in the fields of Northern India where a loo was the hole you dug amd the people didn't have a pot to p*** in I could get phone signal It's indicative of a private network owed by companies whose bottom line is a share holder not the infrastructure. Yet if govt tried to do something it's shouted down as not allowing free competition. Well b*****k* to free competition when the companies won't do anything about poor service. I can see a telephone mast 20m from my parents back door. I remember it being put up. But hey why would there be any unilateral agreement to use other networks cells? No profit right It stretches beyond broadband. Uber is shouted down by black cab drivers who charge too much or worse won't do small journeys as "it's too close" Arriva own the busses charge a fortune for a service that is unreliable and not very user friendly. There is no incentive or mandate for the busier routes ro subsidise rural or lesser used routes... Why is it cheaper to get split fare train tickets rather than a standard return? The list goes on amd on ... Don't stop now, you're on a roll Quote
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