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Prob been done before but lets have an up to date one. Just got fibre in my town.
Need unlimited broadband thats good for streaming as i use sonos/ spotify for all my music and am using smart tv and amazon prime for video.
Needs to be stable for sonos.
Current adsl is pants and has dropped to 0.5 meg this week. were approx 1km from exchange.
need phone/ internet as currently with ee broadband which has been unreliable pretty slow and pants.
BT or Plusnet who are also BT.
What speeds does fibre optic give ?
Virgin Media 120mb here, just wondered if there was an alternative these days.
Currently 76mbps but they're trialing 150mbps for those close enough to the box.
1 for Plusnet. Great customer support, like night and day compared to BT
I thought plusnet pretty much [i]was[/i] BT
plusnet is pretty much BT but with the massive benefit that you never actually have to deal with BT, that's what makes it awesome.
Its not fibre-optic, its copper.
Just sayin'.
Peace.
It's both.
Its fibre-optic to the cabinet. Then the old copper wires from there to your house. So the speeds will depend on just how close the cabinet is to your house.
Or you can get "fibre to the premises", but it will cost you loads.
Plusnet are doing a great deal at the mo; couple that with a huge cashback on Topcashback they are unbeatable.
If you're in a Virgin area then Virgin. Even the basic package at 30 Mb, soon to be upgraded to 50Mb, is enough to stream netflix, Spotify and surf Web, watch YouTube etc. Pay a bit under £30 for that and unlimited calls.
Sky? Some cheap deals to be had, they don't throttle at peak times like BT and EE, free static IP and decent tech support inherited from Be.
I'm happy with Plusnet. Similar to BT but far nicer to deal with
Other than virgin it's all BT under the skin..... it's just a question of who you pay and talk to if you need to.
Sorry for earlier.
Yeah, I know how it works- I've sold enough of the bloody stuff- the point I made badly was that its just tail-shortened dsl, and by parroting BTW's 'but its fibre!!' line, we miss the point that we've still got nothing but some crappy copper pairs to our doorsteps.
When we were buying dsl/dsl2, we didn't have some marketing wonk saying "its ATM!", did we?
That's it.
And as others have said- its all BT Wholesale with LLU- pick whoever has the best rep for service.
1KM from the exchange and only 0.5mb, sounds like you have line issues to me..
Poonprice, yep something's wrong here. Bb has been off completely randomly over last few weeks on and off. Just done a check and download 0.45 mb and upload 0.6 mb from here on my iPad. I'm not on fibre yet and with ee unlimited but they've just put fibre in the village and put the new cabinets in etc.
I did have some trees touching my line from the pole to the house, I've felled a way leave around them now. Might've that they damaged the line to the house? I've also hit a ropes extender cable plugged in, I've got a new extension line to wire in properly. I'll see if that helps. I just despair of contacting ee. I figured I'm going to go fibre any way, let's get that in and then sort any line issues out after wards....
[i]Its fibre-optic to the cabinet. Then the old copper wires from there to your house. So the speeds will depend on just how close the cabinet is to your house.[/i]
Well, technically it's normally coax 😉
+1 samuri.
Ok, so if bt and we are throttling, does it have much impact with fibre? I can see how it would have a big impact cutting my usual 2mb speed in half but if they are offering 30 or 50 mbs would you notice it?
I'm not so worried about how it's wired up and how it gets here, just who's most reliable, what's good value, and who has good customer service....
Virgin seem to have traffic management on upload speeds.
I'll hopefully be moving to a cable/fibre area soon and I'm more interested in upload speeds than download as I FTP images 1-2gb at a time so need fast uploads, are there any providers that have faster uploads than others?
+1 for Sky.
When I had a problem I ended up chatting to a lass in a call centre just a few miles from Glasgow. Problem was fixed in no time by a BT engineer and I was happy. A complete contrast with trying to call BT helpdesks at work.
Top tip: I tried getting the fibre install from BT initially, saving money by paying annually, but as an existing customer of Sky they matched the BT price and offered monthly payments, unlimited downloads and no throttling.
4g gives me miles better upload than I've ever seen on Virgin. Around 7 or 8 MB/s
I can't get any sense now on the arrival of superfast to the exchange. Just get the blue question mark saying it's here but they can't tell when I'll be enabled. How do I find out? I can see the new cabinet from my study window and it's been there a couple of months now. I've seen folk working on it, might have to take a cup of tea over to the next person I see fettling it.
Plusnet unlimited fibre for £14.99 at the moment. I get around 30-35mb/s where I am.
Plusnet use BT infrastructure, and may be owned by them, but are a very different company to deal with.
I can see the new cabinet from my study window and it's been there a couple of months now.
It takes about 3-4 months from the date that the cabinets are installed before they become live.
I was talking to a chap on Friday night (designer of the Raspberry Pi) and he was saying that we will probably end up with the cabinets becoming local 5g nodes that we will connect to wirelessly.