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Anyone received any good deals lately?
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Thinking about switching to the M350 package. Currently have Vodafone as its cheap (£24 a month inc line rental), but I've had a line issue for months which is seemingly unresolvable. Excessively high FEC and CRC cause some instability from time to time. Still, shouldn't be happening!
Hopefully some good deals come up in the next couple months. There's a few cashback ones around, but I'd prefer to just have a lower monthly.
Hopefully some good deals come up in the next couple months. There's a few cashback ones around, but I'd prefer to just have a lower monthly.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49096856
Virgin Media has pledged to offer internet download speeds of at least 1Gbps to 15 million homes by the end of 2021.
Virgin Media has pledged to offer internet download speeds of at least 1Gbps to 15 million homes by the end of 2021.
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Interesting, I'm in Southampton and on a new build development so have BT FTTP and Virgin Media available. I'm currently just out of contract with BT on their 330/50, anyone have any idea what the upload speed would be on VM 1gbps? I am hesitant to lock myself into a long contract when there are other independent ISPs rolling out dirt cheap 1gbps/1gbps services in Southampton. I've used VM for years in the past, they were okay but their upload speeds sucked hence me moving to BT.
Over the VM network, even with the latest iteration of Hybrid FTTP I can't see them pushing 1Gb symmetric. It will more than likely fall in line with other products and be a 10:1 so I'd expect 100Mb of upload to the Gb download "if" they can stick to the schedule.
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That's that I feared. I'm sure by the end of the year someone will be able to offer me a faster service. Ideally either 1000/1000, or I'd be happy with 500/165 but at a more reasonable price. I have a feeling that VM 1gbp would be in excess of £70 a month.
At the moment Gb is at a premium as no 1 provider can offer it large scale across the country. Once Gb becomes available "en mass" then you'll see prices starting to fall.
VM currently won't sell you a 500Mb connection without their highest tier TV package as well which is around £100 per month for the first 12 months. Absolute lunacy really when there are far lesser developed countries that can offer Gb/Gb fibre for near enough £30 per month.
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not being funny here but who actually needs that type of speed? I'm on 350MB and I get more as i'm in a good area. i get around 375MB. i've thought of dropping to 100MB but you only save £10 a month so I've stuck with it. however i'm now starting to think you know what i might as well spend that £10 per month on spotify or something.
100MB should be enough for 5 person households. at best a person uses 20MB per netflix stream. if you do need to download a patch or a new game even on 100MB you will get it really quickly in comparison to a lot of people.
i have 375MB but I feel it's wasted. you could always go and grab a drink and a snack in the time it takes to download anything. we are talking small differences in the real world. it would be cheaper to just leave your pc on all the time downloading updates than to turn it on and have 500MB for instance on tap to download the update when powered up.
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For general usage, 50mbps is perfect. I want the upload for my Plex server. I share it with quite a few people and my upload is the single biggest bottleneck by far. If I had faster upload I could increase the permitted quality per stream which means less transcoding which means less heat and power. I also back my server up to the cloud so backups would be quicker. I don't need 1gbps, I'd happily save money and get 500/500 but it seems to get the upload you need to pay for high download speed. Faster download speeds are handy though for the odd big patch or game download.
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Unfortunately I still have until December remaining on my contract before I can drop the VIVID 200. It's terrible to be honest. I assume on their edge firewalls they are QoS'ing the traffic as when I use a speed checker it absolutely flies. However real world, well I struggle to get above a quarter of their claimed speed.
I just had a flyer from Community Fibre popped through my letterbox. 1GB symmertrical, unlimited data / no caps for £35 a month. Sounds very tempting.
I just had a flyer from Community Fibre popped through my letterbox. 1GB symmertrical, unlimited data / no caps for £35 a month. Sounds very tempting.
I've installed a single unifi ap (lite) and it's made a huge difference in the wifi range, and the android app is pretty nifty too. Now I'm wondering if it's worth disabling the wifi on the SH3 and just adding in another AP on the first floor, and while I'm at it I also wonder if it'd be better to stick the SH3 into modem mode and get another router?
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Do it. I disabled the SH3 WiFi and I now use an Aruba AP with 4 external antennas. The difference is remarkable.
Oh and ditto for the router as well. I have my SH3 in modem mode and its connected to an EdgeRouter 4.
I'll check out the EdgeRouter. Do you have any issues with the SH3 as a modem?
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None whatsoever. I get sync issues now and again but I think thats because of noise on the line / quality of the cable. They did fit some kind of booster / amplifier a while back that improved things a lot. But it operates very well in just bog standard modem mode.
Excellent, thanks.
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Glad to see we are starting to catch up with other countries.
Why don’t you run Plex in the Cloud then?
Run a test at https://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest and see if the differences are due to single vs. multi-thread performance.
Just upgraded to Ultimate Oomph with its M500 broadband and although a couple of speed tests on different sites have hit 550/35 its mostly 220 - 350 Mbps as per the speed test below, presumably due to over contention:
This is in wired connection in modem and non modem modes and all power/noise levels are good.
I upgraded mostly for the extra upload speed, SIM (to use in 4G backup modem) and Sky F1 HD. However it appears the contention issue that used to badly limit our 200Mbps package a couple of years ago until it was fixed is still there, it just takes a faster connection to show the the new level.
If this continues I will be complaining...
This is in wired connection in modem and non modem modes and all power/noise levels are good.
I upgraded mostly for the extra upload speed, SIM (to use in 4G backup modem) and Sky F1 HD. However it appears the contention issue that used to badly limit our 200Mbps package a couple of years ago until it was fixed is still there, it just takes a faster connection to show the the new level.
If this continues I will be complaining...