Fastershire / Gigagclear 1000Mbps fibre to the property

Caged · 3 Mar 2016 at 21:40

YOUR COMPUTER IS BROADCASTING AN IP ADDRESS :eek:

Fuzz · 3 Mar 2016 at 21:52

Oh noes!!!

parityboy · 3 Mar 2016 at 22:13

Fuzz said:
Problem??

Caged said:
YOUR COMPUTER IS BROADCASTING AN IP ADDRESS

Fuzz said:
Oh noes!!!

Well, most people I see tend to redact their IP address on public forums.

Fuzz · 3 Mar 2016 at 22:25

Yay I can play 4K videos on the tube of you without a single buffering sequence.
This pleases me.

DIABLO · 3 Mar 2016 at 22:45

V F said:
Isn't it funny how we've always to be embarrassed/shamed into it.

We have the 12th fastest average internet speed in the world and the 9th fastest in Europe, yes we're sooo lagging behind..

Fuzz · 7 Mar 2016 at 20:15

Spoke with tech dude at Gigaclear about my **** poor download speed..
He said try different browsers but due to it being upto date firefox, usually just requires un-installing and re-installing...
Tried it...

That's better.

Did do a test the other evening using the normal ookla speedtest.net site and got this though..

parityboy · 7 Mar 2016 at 22:35

@Fuzz

Have you tried downloading something like a Linux ISO via HTTP and seeing what the throughput is? Browser speedtests are notoriously inaccurate...

Ev0 · 8 Mar 2016 at 15:04

parityboy said:
Well, most people I see tend to redact their IP address on public forums.

Public IPs maybe, private (and non routable) IP ranges, no real point.

V F · 8 Mar 2016 at 17:09

DIABLO said:
We have the 12th fastest average internet speed in the world and the 9th fastest in Europe, yes we're sooo lagging behind..

You can do anything you want with statistics.

bingham67 · 26 May 2016 at 10:58

Turns out that this could be coming into my town soon I can register from the address for an order but orders in my town need to get to 100% before they do anything it seems.

But £74 a month for 1gb connection :eek:

jimjamuk · 26 May 2016 at 11:35

Your bandwidth is constrained by each end - your end sounds like its going to be great but you'll be limited to what you are connected to.

That said you would be able to open multiple streams at once

Fuzz · 26 May 2016 at 19:58

What Jim says...
Personally now I've had it a while, I think their 200Mb package would be more than enough until the rest of the web catches up.
Quite a lot of sites are still dog slow. The main benefit for me seems to be uploading large bandwidth stuff to places like FB and YT.. Those are blisteringly fast to the point of not even having to "wait" for it.

morfmedia · 27 May 2016 at 14:37

Fuzz: Those speedtest.net sites are normally swamped, even on a 10gbit link I didn't see anywhere near 10gbit. even 1gbit / sec down was about the best I saw

bingham67 · 6 Jul 2016 at 23:14

Had the Gigaclear salesman round the other day just need to get the sign ups in the town cant wait for 200mb up and down

My Adsl connection growing old and boring now 700kb/s download

Jez · 7 Jul 2016 at 08:27

Fuzz said:
What Jim says...
Personally now I've had it a while, I think their 200Mb package would be more than enough until the rest of the web catches up.
Quite a lot of sites are still dog slow. The main benefit for me seems to be uploading large bandwidth stuff to places like FB and YT.. Those are blisteringly fast to the point of not even having to "wait" for it.

We have been flyered for it (although seemingly no progress beyond that

) and i must admit i would be tempted to do as you say. 200mbit symmetric is a huge upgrade from my current 80/20 FTTC and absolutely plenty faster than we need.

soundb0y · 7 Jul 2016 at 11:29

Im in the fastershire area. Looks like all the cabinets have been upgraded locally unfortunately im on an exchange only line about 1.5 miles from the cabinet. Anyone have any idea on how to find out if and when they will be upgrading EO lines?