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Need better internet!
I was waiting for that one!
It's true though, our rental flat has dire archaic internal phone wiring that the landlord has no interest in sorting out, can't wait to either move out or try 4G once our Plusnet contract expires if we are still here.
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Been watching 4g, ee offering 500gb a month now that's a fair whack of data on mobile tbh
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I was discussing our recent internet connectivity woes with the wife yesterday. Surely the next iteration of this will be a 5G contract with your mobile provider that will essentially deem wired connections as redundant?
We already have 30GB of 4G each that we can tether, and it would be interesting to see how long that lasted.
A single payment for cable free home and mobile internet, shared with the entire household, is surely the future?
We already have 30GB of 4G each that we can tether, and it would be interesting to see how long that lasted.
A single payment for cable free home and mobile internet, shared with the entire household, is surely the future?
So happy I left BT a few months ago - the service was terrible, always going down just like this.
Now get 3 times the speed for nearly half the price with Hyperoptic, still got the BT Box though so can watch all the free channels and record them. Win/win.
Now get 3 times the speed for nearly half the price with Hyperoptic, still got the BT Box though so can watch all the free channels and record them. Win/win.
I hope not, 4G certainly doesn't seem reliable or stable enough to replace a wired broadband connection and I can't see 5G changing that.
Yeah, I'll settle for stable wired connections for now. Wireless will never beat the stability of wired, but I guess for some areas it might beat wired if they're still flogging internet over the copper lines.
ISP supplied routers are awful. Virgin's is a particular travesty against technology, it has the slowest web interface I have ever seen in my entire life. What would take 5 seconds from the windows command prompt on a Cisco router takes about half an hour to do on them.
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Fairly certain there is no such thing. Even business broadband you are just referred to the small print.
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.p...goes-live-for-uk-broadband-isp-consumers.html
Voluntary at the moment but I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes mandatory for a whole bunch of different services in the future (gas, electric etc)
BT have opted in the to scheme and this is no doubt an alternative to paying those costs out. I for one am all for it. 4G backup seems like a great idea and something many home network builders aspire to having and have been doing for a while.
However, obviously it needs to be balanced with not exploiting the situation. Forcing customers offline for things that might have been routine in the past knowing that their subscribers can fall back to a 4G connection might sound like fun, but if you've got crap signal and sky high latency then will BT use that crap connection as an excuse to NOT pay out compensation?... Only time will tell.
It's just a shame we can't bond them