BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

Caged said:
Probably not. There's a cost in actually providing a fibre but not really any incremental cost of provisioning different speeds on it. In five years when 10Gb costs £40 you'll just see 1Gb as the entry-level option for £35.
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I thought with the way we all share 2.5Gbps at the minute, the minimum guarantee speed is what your paying for. Fine if we're all on 160Mbps, but if we all start getting the 1.6Gbps they'll need to add extra trunks hence extra cost. Now with these 10Gbps trunks it should mean more of the slower tarrifs are possible.
 
It doesn't change the costs an appreciable amount, a 5Gbps service being available in the future for £50 doesn't mean that you're going to see 500Mbps for £12 or anything. Residential services are over-allocated to a ridiculous number, ISPs don't have the capacity for every single customer to use their guaranteed minimum speed all at once, because those circumstances never happen.
 
Look like mine not long to go now. Looking forward to have Full Fibre in end of Janary 2026. Openreach seem to do it quickly now with more poles and ducts work will be lots easily than underground work with no chambers.


They added more work next week and the rest of December. So, hopefully everyones in all over Woodside will be able to order FTTP in end of January 2026.

 
Ordered a 500mb service in advance of our virgin contract finishing at the end of april, openreach came out for the survey and have given a install date of 4th march, they have 25m of ducting to put in to the nearest chamber in the street then another 9m at our house. glad i didn't leave it till april before ordering.
 
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Well looks like christmas came early.
My street is currently getting fibre pulled in. They reckon should be good to order in January.

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We had our gigabit fibre installed by Highland Broadband this morning, lovely couple of chaps and also computer gamers with one of them having a system similar to mine. The speed is fantastic, wifey downstairs via ethernet is getting 960mb down, 973mb up, 4ms ping and zero jitter. Mine via wifi is a poxy 52mb for some reason. The motherboard has 6E so it should be better than that. Anyway, I have ordered a 20m cat 8 cable which will be here tomorrow so I can go back to wired although it's going to be a pain to route the cable downstairs to the living room.
 
Why is it that my pc which uses 6e for wifi only manages to get around 50mbps yet my phone (Pixel 7a) using the same speedtest and next to my pc gets 820mbps+ over wifi?
 
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