Are you only looking at BT because you are in a contract with them?
15yrs I've been waiting for an internet upgrade.....
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Are you only looking at BT because you are in a contract with them?
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I hope you're not going to just sit on Facebook with that speed.
the wife wants full incoming and outgoing landline and mobile which we also have with BT contracts.
we would save money on the internet part by switching but i could only find good deals that were incoming only on the landline part and she did not agree to it.
and the problem with keeping the full landline with BT and switching internet away from them is they charge you a rip off amount just for the full landline.
until i can convince her that we only need incoming calls and a mobile, i seem stuck
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Just get a new wife...it'll be cheaper in the long run
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Nothing beats that first speed test after having fiber installed 
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What exactly is your wife most concerned about? Able to make calls that aren't disturbed like on a mobile? (Like calls dropping in bad weather, etc?) Or because Landlines had the reputation of being "always on"? (And thus is a reliable method to call out when needed?)
Also, assuming the landline wasn't an issue, what internet are you able to get in your area/address? As if you're FTTP/B capable (alt net or BT), the landline will be run off of your Internet connection anyway at that point, and thus you're looking at VOIP provider options. And not the typical Copper landline (which you won't need if you can get your landline over to VOIP).
When I first looked at this I thought it was 1.2Mbps and you were being sarcastic
If you have 1Gbit NICs then the 1.2Gbps is totally erroneus. Might be caused by some of the transfer being buffered.
It's impossible to pull even an actual 1Gbps owing to overheads let alone exceed it!
If you have 1Gbit NICs then the 1.2Gbps is totally erroneus. Might be caused by some of the transfer being buffered.
It's impossible to pull even an actual 1Gbps owing to overheads let alone exceed it!
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I don't trust fast.comand I get this
Best to use this site: https://www.nperf.com/en/ and post back
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That and when you see your latency tumble when you game online vs a ropey copper connection with interleaving enabled.Nothing beats that first speed test after having fiber installed
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Pretty much the same story here, been on 70/20 for what seems like forever, had fibre installed by Swish yesterday, and now I get 900/900. It's a gamechanger!
Have they priced up a dedicated Ethernet Leased Line? They might be quite surprised at how much a 100/100 service is.
Has your work actually tried to get other providers in? They could email Community Fibre (Business), G.Network, Hyperoptic and Vorboss for a start and see what happens. I refuse to believe anybody that can afford central London office rents (actual central here, not like Haggerston) cannot scrape together £300 for a leased line to make that office actually worth using.
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For a bit of context, I work in the IT department for a chain of restaurants. We have a few branches within Chinatown. BT have quoted us leased lines but for the requirements we need it's triple the price of what we're paying now. Last I heard they're now trying bonded ADSL for the same price instead. G-Network and Community Fibre has gotten back to us but due to the location apparently it'll be expensive to get fibre installed there, but they do have the area in their plans. There's not much I can do from my position however, it's more up to the higher end of the company to decide in the end.
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Oh trust me, we already tried 4G/5G method. We had to last month actually due to an issue with the exchange that took BT a couple of weeks to fix (equipment failure at the exchange, other OR ISPs not affected). But it didn't help that it sometimes cut out for long periods randomly, so wasn't fully stable to use.
But then if it's triple the price for a much faster, potentially anything from 4x to 10x depending on what ADSL speeds you're getting, then I'd say that's worth it. With the number of online orders, reservations etc. a central London Restaurant will be getting I'd say it's worth it. I struggle to comprehend how a business with an online element of any sort could survive on ADSL these days, especially with the dreadful Upload. And surely a business ADSL service is still in the realms of £40-£60pm? Add in an additional service for Bonding (but still only Upload limited to around 1.2-2.4Mbps if the bonding works well) then you're looking at £80-£120pm. In Central London i reckon you could get a dedicated Leased Line, 100Mbps both ways with minimal to no install costs for just over £100pm. (+VAT but the business will be claiming that back.)
Although we don't deal with them at Sky (and I can put you in touch with multiple providers that we do deal with if required and if there are multiple sites a deal may be possible on pricing too), the only one I know of that advertises prices on their site is Spitfire. https://www.spitfire.co.uk/connectivity/fttp-ethernet/ who are offering 50Mbps symmetrical for £100pm.
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Unfortunately in the end it's not for me to decide. I even proposed just sharing a single leased line and then splitting that up on our end (some branches are right next to each other) to reduce costs but the higher end management won't budge.
I'm no longer getting involved with that since it's not my area anyway. But yeah, download is fine, we can work around that, mainly upload is definitely holding us back.
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Same story here. I had mediocre internet for well over a decade, 30-40Mbps which never changed or got upgraded past that, virgin don't have cables in the area either(or other providers, though I've seen CityFibre recently so maybe theyre coming), downloading a game was often an overnight affair with them now easily being 100GB+. Few months back Openreach finally installed FTTP in the area and now I'm on 900Mbps download. Had to buy a new router sadly since the Sky one doesn't support wifi 6. Also had to swap my Powerline adapters for MoCA to get the full speed to my computer (ethernet wasn't really an easy option since I'd have had to go through a floor/multiple walls). However after all the upgrades it's an absolute night and day difference. What took me an entire night now literally only takes like 20mins. I can actually start deleting games on my computer now, I used to just keep things installed for ages to mitigate the fact I'd have to spend an age redownloading if I wanted to play them again.
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