Indeed. We have one ISP that's decent in my area. We pay £50 /month for 215 mbit down and 15 mbit up. I'd rather pay less but it's rock solid and I don't have any other options.
Internet in the UK - getting worse (relative to EU + world)
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Indeed. We have one ISP that's decent in my area. We pay £50 /month for 215 mbit down and 15 mbit up. I'd rather pay less but it's rock solid and I don't have any other options.
Probably not but the issue with the current tech is the "up to" and the prone to line failure issues. BT have to run DLM to manage line stability issues on the copper network which can take action which increases latency on the line as well. FTTP fixes a lot of this stuff.
However it is inevitable gigabit would be needed at some point, tech doesnt stand still. Probably in 10 years 4k content will be seen as a blocky mess.
Soldato
Be thankful! I'm paying $100NZ a month for 120gb of 4g Data. that's FIFTY QUID a month for 120gb limited data at about 14mb speeds 
There's also Bahnhof in Sweden, offering their 10Gbps FTTH service for £25 a month. It's not just about raw download speed, it's the low latency and almost non-existent jitter which opens up a lot of possibilities absent in the average 'good enough' British *DSL connection. If it wasn't for my family I'd move to Sweden, Iceland, Switzerland or similar in a heartbeat.
Man of Honour
That's unbelievable, I reckon I'm less than 2 miles from you on 350 meg.
The USA is a massive county so there are high costs in maintaining the network.
Shock, significantly richer country with only a 6th of the land mass, has better infrastructure than us!
I had 300mbit dropped it down to 40mbit I'm a very heavy internet user only time I notice the difference is when I run speedtest or download "Linux" distros from tpb...
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I dropped from 300 to 200 and basically don't notice.
You're a **** comedian.
There are plenty of people on FTTC who can't even get >10 Mb.
FTTP isn't just about pure speed, as I've said repeatedly.
OpenReach just can't be arsed to find and fix faults with the copper/alu coming into your home. They're awful.
This is very true. OR have a problem that they won't decommission the old copper/alu network as they still make money from it. Though the downside is they are having to pay out more and more engineers to keep it going.
Most of the new G.fast connections are temperamental as they require that the copper/alu to the cabinet is a very short distance, and that the line is in near perfect connection.
If BT/OR had kept to the original G.fast deployment plan and put them on nearby poles or manholes to houses we'd have all been on +300Mbps connections now waiting for the incoming FTTP.
Soldato
Rural areas are shockingly bad, did a speed test at my sister's who lives in a small village, got a massive 2.8 mega bits, my phone on 4G got 10 times that. My home broadband is 10 times what 4G can do for me.
Soldato
At work we’re stuck on 5MB. BT say every year that fibre will be installed next year but they’re full of it. We did get satellite broadband but the way it works doesn’t work with our diagnostic boxes that talk directly to manufactures as the links time out.
At work? Why don't they look to the openreach community fibre projects?
Wonder what will happen to bduk, AFAIK it was a EU funded affair.
I'm On 80meg, well in range for ultrafast but nowt incoming soon it seems.
Other service providerslike virvin and gigaclear are available, nowhere near as prominent as openreach tho and I think gigaclear favour blocks of flats. Had 2 mates move out of their flats after years of terrible copper service, only to see gigaclear start work when they were leaving lol!!!
Whilst I'd love higher speeds, other than faster dls I coped just as well on 16meg copper. I reckon 20mb enough for most tbh
Wonder what will happen to bduk, AFAIK it was a EU funded affair.
I'm On 80meg, well in range for ultrafast but nowt incoming soon it seems.
Other service providerslike virvin and gigaclear are available, nowhere near as prominent as openreach tho and I think gigaclear favour blocks of flats. Had 2 mates move out of their flats after years of terrible copper service, only to see gigaclear start work when they were leaving lol!!!
Whilst I'd love higher speeds, other than faster dls I coped just as well on 16meg copper. I reckon 20mb enough for most tbh
Forever? For the next 14 years? For the next 100 years?
I'm not surprised.
Others part of Europe invests in their whole country. Perfect examples are Germany and Switzerland. The UK, which really is only England invests in London and London only.
Why are they building HS2.....to improve the train link in the country.....no.....its to benefit London and London only. Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and the other connections due to be on the line they don't give two hoots about.
As for Broadband, well ours on the whole beats the US but you never see the likes of Google Fibre over here unless Virgin pulls their finger out.
Others part of Europe invests in their whole country. Perfect examples are Germany and Switzerland. The UK, which really is only England invests in London and London only.
Why are they building HS2.....to improve the train link in the country.....no.....its to benefit London and London only. Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and the other connections due to be on the line they don't give two hoots about.
As for Broadband, well ours on the whole beats the US but you never see the likes of Google Fibre over here unless Virgin pulls their finger out.
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You might have to grease his palms not the wheels, I’m sure that’s how it works with most MPs