There are of course other ISPs that aren't BT. You could move to Vodafone FTTP on Openreach and then "upgrade" to CityFibre when that becomes available - bear in mind CityFibre could easily take a year from digging the road up to the service being ready to order.
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Not considering BT.
Vodafone is £30 pm for 500mb or £45 for 900mb via openreach or £30 for 900mb using cityfibre which is not available just yet.
I think talktalk is £35 for 500mb and £42 for 900 via open reach poss cheaper over city fibre.
Vodafone is £30 pm for 500mb or £45 for 900mb via openreach or £30 for 900mb using cityfibre which is not available just yet.
I think talktalk is £35 for 500mb and £42 for 900 via open reach poss cheaper over city fibre.
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Good luck to you, hope you don't have to wait too long. City fibre took literally years to get up and running here, they dug up my road during the lockdown and only recently gone live, been much faster in other places. Have you even managed to get a time frame /ball park figure when it will be done?
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Vodaphone 900meg x 900meg on city fibre is £30 Talk Talk was £35 last time I looked
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Not a very good start with TalkTalk.
Placed an order this morning yet to get any confirmation and no response from support.
Placed an order this morning yet to get any confirmation and no response from support.
Virgin media are still ok as a stop gap, city fibre have had me waiting for 2 years, and even now they have done the road works I have been told to wait another 9-12 months, I have never seen another telco company so slow to rollout as CF.
Got sick of downloading games over VDSL, so am now on gig1. Its pretty good, 50mbit upload is more than enough on paper, although the upload is congested drops to about 30 most evenings. Luckily the important part of the connection is full gigabit around the clock. Is jitter but nowhere near as bad as it used to be on cable a decade ago.
Of course if CF ever get their act together, and it becomes available then I will probably move to them.
Also what was interesting i ordered VM on a Thursday, and was live just two days later. Usually other ISPs have you waiting several weeks from order to live date, and then no grace period (grace period during the wait for install).
Got sick of downloading games over VDSL, so am now on gig1. Its pretty good, 50mbit upload is more than enough on paper, although the upload is congested drops to about 30 most evenings. Luckily the important part of the connection is full gigabit around the clock. Is jitter but nowhere near as bad as it used to be on cable a decade ago.
Of course if CF ever get their act together, and it becomes available then I will probably move to them.
Also what was interesting i ordered VM on a Thursday, and was live just two days later. Usually other ISPs have you waiting several weeks from order to live date, and then no grace period (grace period during the wait for install).
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Just ordered City Fibre from Legend Telecom in Leeds only 1 that did full 1 gig up and down, router rolled up today Tecnicolour, i was planning on using my Alien Amplifi from Ubiquiti but they dont support VLAN 911 which is needed, so its eaither bridge mode, or dust off the old Orbi Pros of which do support VLAN 911. I,ll keep you updated on deployment.
Thus far i ordered in bed Saturday, a few Kelly communication vans have been and fiddled with the telegraph Pole outside, but nothing to house yet.
Current setup is Virgin 1 gig, but its time for a change.....
Thus far i ordered in bed Saturday, a few Kelly communication vans have been and fiddled with the telegraph Pole outside, but nothing to house yet.
Current setup is Virgin 1 gig, but its time for a change.....
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I went from Virgin to Ciyfibre, Its definitely much better for gaming and general all-round use apart from p2p as at least the ISP i'm on do throttle it. I think you will be happier with it. For my ISP I also had to use vlan 911, I'm no tekkie so was wondering is this the norm on CityFibre ISP's>?? and what exactly is this vlan for>
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Here is an image of my ping times.
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That doesn't sound like a CityFibre network.
Yeah not too up on the VLAN element myself, but prob an extension of the ISPs WAN/LAN so you reap the benefits on that. Lets see if install goes ok, appointment is 8am to 1pm Monday and router is here....
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Another ping test and the last one of that as well.
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Giganet still haven’t gone live in my area, despite ordering it at the beginning of October, and other providers now supplying FTTP via Cityfibre without issues.
I’ve contacted them a number of times about it, as, frustratingly, they are the cheapest and offer the best terms, but the dates I’m being given keep going past without any notices/emails.
If it wasn’t for the fact it was 3 months free and no exit fee, I would have left by now, but I’ll give them a chance and see how I get on.
I’ve contacted them a number of times about it, as, frustratingly, they are the cheapest and offer the best terms, but the dates I’m being given keep going past without any notices/emails.
If it wasn’t for the fact it was 3 months free and no exit fee, I would have left by now, but I’ll give them a chance and see how I get on.
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My speed test,
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I went with No One because Giganet wasn't available, but pre order soon status. No One offer a monthly rolling contract of £40 a month and when Giganet do go live I've already got the fibre installed and its an easy switch over, plus I wanted some low latency goodness over xmas for some online gaming. Being the next county along from me I'm guessing you have the same provider's,
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