15yrs I've been waiting for an internet upgrade.....

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and I get this :D

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We were on 65mb (on a good day) sky broadband. Been waiting for openreach forever, but another company called upp broadband have laid fibre, so we have chosen to go with them.

Free for six months
200mb £26
500mb £30
900mb £43

You get a wifi6 linksys router, which to be fair, seems decent
 
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I had pathetic internet for decades and then BT decided to put fiber all the way to my property lol.

But now they can not sell my internet for any less than £40 a months which really sucks.
I have phoned them several times about it but no £40 is the very cheapest they can offer me.
 
I’m paying €42 a month for 16-18 mbps DL, 2-3 mbps UL for broadband over a WIMAX link to a water tower 1,900 metres away.

Orange fibre broadband has reached the top of our Shared access road, but that’s 750 metre from my house and no-one‘s entirely sure how our current landline gets to our house.
 
dave28 said:
I had pathetic internet for decades and then BT decided to put fiber all the way to my property lol.

But now they can not sell my internet for any less than £40 a months which really sucks.
I have phoned them several times about it but no £40 is the very cheapest they can offer me.
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Switch to a different provider.
 
Was in a similar situation. My area got FTTC fast (also unfortunately with the ECI cabinets, which couldn't benefit from G.INP). 44mb initially but over the years fell to 36mb. Moved to a new place but still on the same exchange, 64mb when I moved in but slowly fell to 56mb. Still not on Openreach's FTTP plan. VM was also an option but very expensive for the same upload speed. Luckily Community Fibre came round last month and 1gb symmetrical for nearly half the price of the usual FTTC packages makes a huge difference.

Meanwhile, work is still stuck on ADSL... and the office is located well within Central London...
 
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I'm jelous... Openreach just installed FTTP "in my area" but seem to have stopped at the house next door to mine. Still stuck with ~35mbps :(, 15 years ago we still only had 512kbps here though so guess I can't complain too much
 
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MrRockliffe said:
Good old fast.com - guessing you’re connected via Gigabit lan? :p


For some reason fast.com speeds are often over the maximum limit.
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This baffled me when I got my gig line.

Fully wired house with Cat 6 and then pulled 1.3 Gbps, I had assumed there was some additional tolerance with my onboard NIC since they're rarely above 1g on a PC motherboard. Must just be fast.com :P
 
I’ve had Upp in Thetford for almost 2 years and they’ve been rock solid. My favourite feature is the DHCP with no authentication to connect any router in moments. My least favourite aspect is they only offer a fixed IP address on the £150/month business broadband.

If you use the speed test at ThinkBroadband.Com you get a more realistic version of the throughput and mine is still pretty close to 900/900 on the Home account and about 940/940 on the business account line. I actually think that’s more a function of the 1GbE interface on the ONT.
 
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