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At home I get typically around 95 Mbps from a nominal 100 Mbps fibre connection I got a year ago, costing an expensive Ā£55 per month. Far better speed than the previous typically 20 Mbps from a nominal 100 copper connection. Upload is around 20 vs old 10.
When travelling with an EU-wide data sim in a campervan with external aerial, where I am now gives around 50-55 download and 60-70 upload, though ping varies 60-270 when checked several times in succession, but can extremely slow or even none depending where I am.
This even more unfare . Maybe i should stand on the ticket of graduated internet speed to cost . Mind you Dentists should be as available as a GP would be my no1.
Ill close the door on the way out .
This is ours based on a FTTH speed of 400Mbps
Hard wired we get over the 400 with Gigaclear as part of the UK Governmentās Rural Broadband initiative.
DGā¦
Odd this topic turns up today, last week I changes the internet provider and reduced my monthly bill to about 40%, the reason to change, and also gained a speed advantage, which is not really necessary as the old speed (over overhead copper) was quite good enough for me - no streaming of sound or video in this household. The old supplier was sometimes compromised by poor contention ratios.
In this location recent improvements to the network has delivered fibre to the tops of the poles, so perhaps the sales push to deliver fibre to the house has given rise to lower pricing, in my case better than half price per month to gain better than twenty times the speed.
I remember the dial up services (and the noise of making a connection) and at work the introduction of direct dedicated phone lines into the building for the internet
ps - perhaps a graduated electricity (and gas) pricing structure would be a fairer way to pay for energy not just internet feedsā¦
Iām definitely changing to hyperoptic as soon as my virgin contract ends. Iām paying three times as much as it would cost me with themā¦ DOH
Netflix HD requires 5Mbps. 4k 15Mbps.
High res music obviously less.
Before you buy 100s of Mbps download capability, you need to assess your household usage.
I pay for 50Mbps. Thatās more than enough.
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2gb through the wall. 1gb hard wired to a switch/access point. Furthest part of the house wifi from switch to an access point, and then wifi to this
Regarding speeds. I found that the reliability, no dropouts or buffering, substantially improved from the previous copper even with a good and fast ( for copper) connection. Presumably to do with bandwidth rather than speed.
Edit: Network map from the Orange app
Iām sure Iām not the only one here who had to wage an internet-bandwidth war with their offspring! It was the 1.5gb āIām just updating my game dadā during Covid that led me to get the maximum. I can now stream 4k multiple times concurrently while someone is downloading and still do a business Zoom call (my advisory business being based at home).
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All this bragging, we are lucky to get 5Mb. The contract guarantee is 1.2Mb.
We are just one of two houses connected to the pole and Openreach refuse to communicate about when they will get round to connecting.
Sky and Virgin are on the other side of the road and want silly money to connect.
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Plus, itās not actually that expensive. For a 1Gb connection, Hyperoptic just quoted me Ā£25 a month for 9 months rising to Ā£28 over the course of the contract.
Been there. Done that.
But when you retire, kids have left home and youāve downloaded every 4K movie on the planet, youāll be able to downgrade to 50. 
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Prior to moving 3 years ago I was with Virgin for my broadband and had the middle broadband speed, canāt remember off hand what it was. Here I am with BT and have copper and get around 40mbs. The only time I really notice a difference is when I am downloading software updates, it seemed very slow. BT have recently informed me that I will have to change to full fibre when I renew my contract. I can get 500Mbs for the same sum as I am paying for my 40mbs. It is on my to do list organise.
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Something has changed recently with availability in my location. Two monthsā ago we had a single option of trooli (via zen). As of today, it looks like every provider is available - adding ee, Vodafone, sky, rebel, cuckoo, fibrely etc.
There is clearly a push to shift over from copper to fibre. Our monthly cost reduced by Ā£10 so it was a very easy decision, plus we simply donāt use the landline, so our package changed to fftp only.
Starlink while expensive would likely give you >100Meg. 75 a month. Idea for decent bandwidth where there is no wired option.
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Brsk - Ā£34 per month plus Ā£5 for a static IP address.
Only Ā£4 per month than BT was for 80/20 FTTC (excl static IP).
With me, changing to Gigaclear FTTH from BT FTTC (70 mbps down / 18 mbps up). Not only brought a big increase in speed down and most certainly up, but improved the consistency of speed and stopped all the drop outs that we suffered with.
Big improvement all round.
DGā¦
I just arranged to switch to the 150 Mbps BT offering that includes a phone line for free, which is cheaper than my current tariff and over 3 times the speed I normally get.
One of the upgrades from Sky to Hyperoptic that I enjoyed for some reason was no more free phone line. Phone lines are going away January 2027, so there will no longer be a copper phone line providing power to the phone. The phone will be just another device on the internet connection - thatās why itās being offered āfreeā because it literally will be free for them to provide from a little over a year away and they can charge you for using it. Obviously kind of important if you live somewhere where there is no mobile reception, but less so in East London!
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