darrenm Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Shoulda gone BT .. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PompeyVillan Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 Got it sorted. Sky Hub is pretty poor though. Great speeds close upon but not as fast as I'd hope further away. Set the old router up as a repeater which helps WiFi range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Posted October 23, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted October 23, 2014 Have just moved to BT from Talktalk. The line is taking a while to settle down. Not speed wise, but it keeps disconnecting every ten minutes. BT assure me this is normal, but I'm doubtful... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 BT have announced next gen "ultrafast" broadband with speeds of 500/1000 megabits per second. Should be available within two years. (article) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PompeyVillan Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 That's great. Would that also mean improving the cabling in your average house to deal with these speeds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 It seems that 500 is what they are targeting at home users, 1000 is at business. It's all their side of the cabinet so you shouldn't have to upgrade cables in your house. I'd presume they would offer a better router. I'm curious as what the distance from the cabinet thing actually means, I'm probably less than 250 metres from the cabinet in a straight line but I doubt the cable is routed that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sie Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Due to a house move, I had to give up my 150 MB cable from Virgin. Now temporarily suffering a mere 5 MB connection from Sky but will swapping to fibre soon. Plusnet seem to be the cheapest but I'll give Sky a ring first to see what the can offer me. BT can **** off though - their "biggest ever" neverending sale (thats not really a sale at all) is still more expensive than everyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PompeyVillan Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 (edited) It seems that 500 is what they are targeting at home users, 1000 is at business. It's all their side of the cabinet so you shouldn't have to upgrade cables in your house. I'd presume they would offer a better router. I'm curious as what the distance from the cabinet thing actually means, I'm probably less than 250 metres from the cabinet in a straight line but I doubt the cable is routed that way.As the cable increases in the length the more data speed is 'lost'. If your cabinet is really far from your house you might struggle to get the advertised speeds. Maybe you must have to be really quite far away for it to make a significant difference. I was thinking about the cabling from where the outside telephone line connects to your rj11 socket. I quizzed the open reach engineer when he came over and he said that theoretically our house had a maximum bandwidth of 100 Mbps. I'm not sure about this though. Edited February 1, 2015 by PompeyVillan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted February 1, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted February 1, 2015 I am trying to figure out a way to move 5 miles down the road to Leverett.$25/month extra property (equivalent of council) tax+ $30/month to the ISP= $55/month for a gigabit fiber connection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Posted February 9, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted February 9, 2015 Have just moved to BT from Talktalk. The line is taking a while to settle down. Not speed wise, but it keeps disconnecting every ten minutes. BT assure me this is normal, but I'm doubtful... So, is it 4 or 5 months now? Anyway, that and 14 engineers later and it's still disconnects several times per hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 9, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted February 9, 2015 I hope you're getting a hefty discount for those 4 or 5 months! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Posted February 9, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted February 9, 2015 I think the word you're looking for is 'refund' It's my best savings plan ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted February 17, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted February 17, 2015 Finally got Fibre in Worcester! Had it installed today. Looking forward to some lag-free gaming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted February 17, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted February 17, 2015 Is all of this Fiber to the Premises (i.e. the cable to your house/business is fiber-optic) or Fiber to the Cabinet/Neighborhood (where the last few hundred meters are still copper)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 FTTC - Fibre to the cab. Most streets have cabinets very close to residences so the last few yards are vDSL. The copper used is the existing twisted pair copper originally installed for analogue voice so noise gets a bit high over a few hundred meters. I have a c.100m copper run from my local cab and get 74Mb stable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nath182 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 This thread infuriates me. My 3Mb Sky internet connection is shiiiiiiiiiiite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sie Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 I've just got off the phone from Sky to see if they could offer me anything better than the utterly ridiculous price of £30 per month they're asking for 76mbDN/19mbUP. They said they couldn't do anything, try to convince me I didn't want 76mb then offered me 38mb for £10 for 6 months then £20 after that. As a customer for 15 years, it seems I'm less valued than a new one who would get 38mb for free for 6 months. I declined. So I now have my MAC code and will be looking elsewhere. Currently Plus.net are in the lead as they can give me 76mbDN/19mbUP + weekend/evening calls for £8.75 for 6 months then £20 after that. And their line rental is cheaper. They might have traffic shaping but they'll also save me £338.04 over the 18 month contract. I was with virgin last year who also traffic manage and it wasn't even noticeable. Does anyone here pay the price Sky ask for their 76mb service? It's mental expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted February 18, 2015 Administrator Share Posted February 18, 2015 Does anyone have any inside info on what the Virgin announcement the other day means? Project Lightning. Has anyone seen the roll-out plans? By PM if necessary. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 I've just got off the phone from Sky to see if they could offer me anything better than the utterly ridiculous price of £30 per month they're asking for 76mbDN/19mbUP. They said they couldn't do anything, try to convince me I didn't want 76mb then offered me 38mb for £10 for 6 months then £20 after that. As a customer for 15 years, it seems I'm less valued than a new one who would get 38mb for free for 6 months. I declined. So I now have my MAC code and will be looking elsewhere. Currently Plus.net are in the lead as they can give me 76mbDN/19mbUP + weekend/evening calls for £8.75 for 6 months then £20 after that. And their line rental is cheaper. They might have traffic shaping but they'll also save me £338.04 over the 18 month contract. I was with virgin last year who also traffic manage and it wasn't even noticeable. Does anyone here pay the price Sky ask for their 76mb service? It's mental expensive. The traffic shaping Virgin and Plusnet implement are very different. Once you hit the threshold set by Virgin the speed is reduced temporarily. (Upload speed only now) Plusnet use traffic prioritization; if you are downloading whilst trying to stream something. Streaming takes priority. Worth a read if you haven't already -> http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/speed_guide/traffic_management.shtml If you didn't notice the speed reduction on Virgin you most certainly won't on Plusnet (talking from experience) Hope that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 20, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted February 20, 2015 My "Superfast Sky Broadband" was clocking in at about 0.3mb last night. I can feel the upgrade to fibre optic coming very soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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