Fastershire / Gigagclear 1000Mbps fibre to the property

Fuzz · 31 Oct 2015 at 18:56

Hahaha the BT joke was pretty good but the icing on the cake was the BT guy in the audience during questions at the end..

Definitely on board with these guys :cool:

gothic_hobbit · 31 Oct 2015 at 19:08

That bandwidth should be able to manage 4k with ease !

chroniclard · 31 Oct 2015 at 19:12

I would pay for 1000gb

That said Virgin has been great for me for years, very few issues.

Phantom Shadow · 31 Oct 2015 at 21:33

On plusnet's 76/20 service atm, getting 50 down. Happy with the download speed, don't really have a need for more, but would be nice if I could more than the 6mb upload I do currently.

I must have gotten lucky in a previous property on virgin media, it was always at or slightly faster than the 30mb I paid for even during peak times.

chris182008 · 31 Oct 2015 at 21:45

I'm on Talktalks 80/20 fibre which I get pretty close to. Would love gigabit just to try game streaming from at home.

Caged · 31 Oct 2015 at 22:40

You can stream 720p comfortably with 5Mbps, so there's no reason why you can't do game streaming from home with the connection that you've got.

Fuzz · 31 Oct 2015 at 23:46

but at peak times it's not 5Mb, it's lower than a snakes ass in a wagon rut!

Caged · 31 Oct 2015 at 23:59

That wouldn't change if you had gigabit fibre connected to the same ISP though. If your speeds drop massively during peak times then switch to a different provider.

Craig321 · 1 Nov 2015 at 00:07

It's the upload I would like. Could move all my hosting/websites to my HP then and save a few £ hosting charges a year

Caged · 1 Nov 2015 at 01:03

Fuzz said:
Hahaha the BT joke was pretty good but the icing on the cake was the BT guy in the audience during questions at the end..

Definitely on board with these guys

The guy's got a point though - 10Gb split across 300 subscribers isn't a lot of capacity, and prevents the sale of high value business-grade services. It also sounds like the topology is subscriber -> chassis switch -> backhaul, so you'd better hope that the switches are intelligent enough to do QoS otherwise some expensive upgrades will be needed to cover subscriber growth.

I fully commend these community FTTH efforts, but I think wireless has a potential that is yet to be realised as well.

kayomani · 1 Nov 2015 at 01:24

I bet you end up with a 30gb cap or something silly

Disco_P · 1 Nov 2015 at 01:44

Might have to try and drum up support for gigaclear in my area. They require a 30% sign up level which for my village means I need about 3 more people.

thenewoc · 1 Nov 2015 at 10:31

My concern would be that 10Gbps back haul. Would they be able to increase that with their back haul provider over their existing infrastructure, eg not having to lay more fiber?

teaboy5 · 1 Nov 2015 at 12:33

Caged said:
The guy's got a point though - 10Gb split across 300 subscribers isn't a lot of capacity, and prevents the sale of high value business-grade services. It also sounds like the topology is subscriber -> chassis switch -> backhaul, so you'd better hope that the switches are intelligent enough to do QoS otherwise some expensive upgrades will be needed to cover subscriber growth.

I fully commend these community FTTH efforts, but I think wireless has a potential that is yet to be realised as well.

Is this linked to B4RN?

tres · 1 Nov 2015 at 12:44

not bad for 25 quid a month with no line rental, never had any slow downs at all!

I have no need for uploading large amounts of data, so perfect for me

philip2009 · 1 Nov 2015 at 12:54

teaboy5 said:
Is this linked to B4RN?

Gigaclear.

Fuzz · 1 Nov 2015 at 13:43

Giga-tty

Order is go.

Went for the full 1000Mbps option.

Just to be greedy.

philip2009 · 1 Nov 2015 at 14:09

Going off-topic ... is your winking emoticon suggesting that you work in a very well known "Doughnut" shaped government building in Cheltenham?

Fuzz · 1 Nov 2015 at 17:08

Afraid not. Although you're close (in proximity, not guessing)

Jez · 2 Nov 2015 at 09:32

Our village has been flyered for this, i really hope they built it out to us. The next village over is already live a couple of miles away.

Post some results when its live