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Post by adrianc on Mar 5, 2024 9:24:09 GMT
Well, I usually like independent like non BT open reach and non virgin. Tempting to try Community fibre for next sign up. any good? It's entirely up to which fibre outfit has installed their kit in your area.
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Post by adrianc on Mar 5, 2024 9:33:29 GMT
As somebody who was brought up using a 28k modem, what can I do with 900MB that I can't do with my current 70MB provider.
Well, that's the big question. Also, if you're using wireless inside the house, it's the wireless that's quite probably your speed cap already. 802.11b - 11Mbps 802.11a/g - 54Mbps 802.11n - 450Mbps ...and they're maximum theoretical speeds. Add a bit of distance, some part of the house, and they plummet rapidly. Once you get above about 50-100meg, it's basically marketing hype unless you have a number of people in the house all doing a lot of HD streaming or very heavy downloading simultaneously. A 4K film is about 20GB/hour. You would probably get a bit of real-world buffering over a 50meg connection with that, but at 100meg, you'd only be using about half of the available bandwidth. At 900meg, each hour's 4K video would download in about three minutes.
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Post by benaj on Mar 5, 2024 9:34:05 GMT
That's kinda true, Community Fibre is only serving 200k customers in the serving post code area, not targerting general UK population, just the easy 1%.  |
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Post by keitha on Mar 5, 2024 10:16:47 GMT
As somebody who was brought up using a 28k modem, what can I do with 900MB that I can't do with my current 70MB provider.
Well, that's the big question. Also, if you're using wireless inside the house, it's the wireless that's quite probably your speed cap already. 802.11b - 11Mbps
802.11a/g - 54Mbps
802.11n - 450Mbps...and they're maximum theoretical speeds. Add a bit of distance, some part of the house, and they plummet rapidly. Once you get above about 50-100meg, it's basically marketing hype unless you have a number of people in the house all doing a lot of HD streaming or very heavy downloading simultaneously. A 4K film is about 20GB/hour. You would probably get a bit of real-world buffering over a 50meg connection with that, but at 100meg, you'd only be using about half of the available bandwidth. At 900meg, each hour's 4K video would download in about three minutes. that's also shared between devices and back and forth to the router, so if you are downloading windows updates, uploading all your photos to the cloud and streaming a film on 3 different devices the maximum will be 150Mbps per device and that relies on the data being instantaneously available when the device calls for it. streaming in SD is far less intensive than HD, but yes I know people who stream in HD to a phone, one of my friends uses 2-3GB of data a day on her phone as she streams films and music whilst travelling to work and back home on the train.
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Post by mogish on Mar 12, 2024 12:58:10 GMT
After my ongoing saga with broadband, the time has come to give my 30 days notice to sky.
Thanks to all posters who gave me advice on a 5g router and sim. I took the urge and signed up today with 3 network.
2 year deal for £22 a month with first 6 m at £11.
Promises of 150mb/s.... a far cry from the current 4 mb/s. If it delivers.
Fingers crossed this works out.
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keitha
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Post by keitha on Mar 12, 2024 15:14:09 GMT
customer service is important if the link goes down or isn't performing at the speed etc required
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Post by badersleg on Mar 12, 2024 19:09:01 GMT
It pays to shop around.NOW broadband have decent deals if you go through TopCashBack. You can get 63mb for under £18 per month on a 12 month contract.(after cashback) I've been with Now broadband for 2 weeks. I wouldn't recommend them. Useless router, hopeless customer service and theyeven managed to change my phone number without telling me.
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Post by mogish on Mar 12, 2024 21:42:10 GMT
It pays to shop around.NOW broadband have decent deals if you go through TopCashBack. You can get 63mb for under £18 per month on a 12 month contract.(after cashback) I've been with Now broadband for 2 weeks. I wouldn't recommend them. Useless router, hopeless customer service and theyeven managed to change my phone number without telling me. Just read reviews on 3,can't say they are glowing. Never considered Now. Hopefully three are OK. The 30 day moneyback is at least some sort of insurance. No doubt it will be a ball ache if I have to cancel. How can they change your phone number without asking you?
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Post by badersleg on Mar 13, 2024 18:33:04 GMT
I've been with Now broadband for 2 weeks. I wouldn't recommend them. Useless router, hopeless customer service and theyeven managed to change my phone number without telling me. Just read reviews on 3,can't say they are glowing. Never considered Now. Hopefully three are OK. The 30 day moneyback is at least some sort of insurance. No doubt it will be a ball ache if I have to cancel. How can they change your phone number without asking you? If you join them via their website they ask you if you want to keep your number and if you want to be ex-directory. I phoned them up to join and wasn't given the option. My phone stopped working, but it wasn't a concern because they said there was a fault. When they fixed it I could make calls out, but when I tried phoning my own landline I got an invalid number message. I only found out they'd given me a new number because of the caller display on my mobile. There's nothing on my account or emails telling me what my new number is.
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Post by benaj on Mar 13, 2024 18:47:06 GMT
Just read reviews on 3,can't say they are glowing. Never considered Now. Hopefully three are OK. The 30 day moneyback is at least some sort of insurance. No doubt it will be a ball ache if I have to cancel. How can they change your phone number without asking you? If you join them via their website they ask you if you want to keep your number and if you want to be ex-directory. I phoned them up to join and wasn't given the option. My phone stopped working, but it wasn't a concern because they said there was a fault. When they fixed it I could make calls out, but when I tried phoning my own landline I got an invalid number message. I only found out they'd given me a new number because of the caller display on my mobile. There's nothing on my account or emails telling me what my new number is. Switching from which provider? Did you ask Now to keep your old number or not? I am in the process helping family to switch to Virgin. Filled in the form to keep the number but new number given in the email. I had to ring Virgin Media to instruct them to port in old number. AFAIK, as long as the your old number has not been cancelled, you might be able to port your old number back.
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Post by badersleg on Mar 13, 2024 19:43:37 GMT
If you join them via their website they ask you if you want to keep your number and if you want to be ex-directory. I phoned them up to join and wasn't given the option. My phone stopped working, but it wasn't a concern because they said there was a fault. When they fixed it I could make calls out, but when I tried phoning my own landline I got an invalid number message. I only found out they'd given me a new number because of the caller display on my mobile. There's nothing on my account or emails telling me what my new number is. Switching from which provider? Did you ask Now to keep your old number or not? I am in the process helping family to switch to Virgin. Filled in the form to keep the number but new number given in the email. I had to ring Virgin Media to instruct them to port in old number. AFAIK, as long as the your old number has not been cancelled, you might be able to port your old number back. I was moving from Shell. I've raised a complaint with OFCOM just to get a reference number.I phoned NOW to complain but was told they don't have a complaints department and to fill in an online form. I've heard that moving to/from Virgin can cause problems because they have their own infrastructure at the exchange.
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Post by mogish on Mar 13, 2024 20:21:15 GMT
Sounds a real hassle.
I received the 3 hub today, had to activate the sim. Apparently as I bought it online they needed to open an account before sim would work.
Anyway once that was done and all devices attached to new hub , we are now receiving anything from 70mb/s to over 300!! This is a massive increase from fixed line adsl from sky at 4mb/s.
Hopefully this will continue and doesn't get throttled back after the 30 day trial.
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Post by benaj on Mar 15, 2024 12:00:58 GMT
My new sign up with the non BT openreach / Virgin Media went well. Engineers arrived on time to install face plate for FTTH connection.
I got 816mbps.
Meanwhile, my family member still waiting for switching number from VM. 😐
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Post by mogish on Mar 15, 2024 16:06:39 GMT
My new sign up with the non BT openreach / Virgin Media went well. Engineers arrived on time to install face plate for FTTH connection. I got 816mbps. Meanwhile, my family member still waiting for switching number from VM. 😐 826mb... wow that's fast. Unfortunately we can't get fibre here but our latest move to non fixed line is proving to be a good move. I don't need a landlines anymore. Just junk calls anyway so mobiles are all we need.
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Post by keitha on Mar 16, 2024 10:19:04 GMT
well I guess most of us can figure out who really controls onestream from my account ?@onestreamltd.vodafone.net
well actually they might just be selling the service on but how do they do it £10 a month cheaper than the "main" provider
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