Am I being daft? (pulling out of house move due to broadband speed)

Can't get FTTC or Cable, but get ADSL at about 13Mbps - it's fine tbh. At anything above 10Mbps I'd be fine, and I use it reasonably heavily too.

Had 3mbps at my last place though, and that felt far too slow.
 
Had the same issue with my current flat. Virgin were advertising as available, then after moving they pulled out. Had no BT fibre anywhere in the area. Was going mental over it.
Thankfully BT enabled the cabinet the next week. Great luck for me, but I was furiously searching for a new place in the interim and would probably have moved and taken a financial hit to get decent internet.
 
Devious said:
Virgin told me today during the call that have deployed an engineer to go to the street and they say they will get back in 48 hours.

I drove down the street tonight and you can see where they have dug up the paths previously and it doesn't go as far as the newer houses at the end of the street. Not sure Virgin can just dig up the paths again without permission from the council but I will see what they have to say if they get back to me.
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They do have to get permission from the council, however they do deal with this sort of thing on a some what regular basis.

What sort of distance from the cabinet are we talking?
 
I did exactly the same a few years ago. Don't regret it one bit. I know it would have drove me mad so it was the right decision.
 
Unless you've confirmation of speeds you require at said house. Look elsewhere. Fast Internet is essential in this day and age. If you think not your either old, deaf or blind.
 
spoffle said:
They do have to get permission from the council, however they do deal with this sort of thing on a some what regular basis.

What sort of distance from the cabinet are we talking?
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BT cabinet 1.8km

I think I will ask the estate agent to ask the Vendor to run a speedtest. Is there a speedtest that shows location, so the vendor cannot make the reuslts up?
 
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I agree with others. When I bought my flat, checking the local BB options and speed was one of the high priorities. Obviously, living inside the M25 meant generally you're gonna have fast BB.
 
i'm going to be somewhat controversial here and say it shouldn't be too much of a problem, obviously depending on what you're trying to do.

I'm on 2.5Mb 'fiber' here, I work from home, I download large files (overnight mostly), stream iPlayer and Netflix (not HD admittedly) video conference and screen share fine.

Gaming would probably be a no-no, I can only do one of the above at any given time, but I survive none the less.
 
Wouldn't consider moving into an area that didn't have Virgin Media. Was always one of the first things I checked when viewing houses.
 
The thing that sold me on my first house was the bt fibre to the home. Love my upload speed to much to not have decent Internet anywhere i live.
 
Spent a year at 4Mbit in the last couple of years and it was awful. If it is only a few houses you'll probably not find BT rolling out FTTC very quickly, and Virgin will not be interested. Avoid. Worth taking the hit on solictor's fees now rather than years in the slow lane in my opinion.
 
Yea, as someone who completes his first house purchase next Tuesday, broadband suppliers and speeds was one of the very first things I looked at.

Too much technology these days depends on Internet capability to get the most out of it to make it not worth checking out
 
I think it's a bit of an issue.

We've only got a 3Mb connection, but our usage hasn't outgrown that. The kids are young (6 and 3), my wife doesn't really stream video, and none of us are big TV watchers, so we rarely attempt to stream to two devices at once.

We do, since a few months go, have the option of fibre. I suspect we'll need it within the next couple of years.

I think it would be harder going back to a slow connection after being used to faster. And it's a quality of life thing
 
I would deffo pull out tbh.

Wife watching youtube, me gaming both kids streaming 1080p to their rooms, and possible wife streaming 4k downstairs & downloads at the same time. Not a chance nowadays.

Think more and more people are going to start looking at broadband speeds when moving house now so may influence more sales.
 
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