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What's your experience like?

Do you get the advertised speeds?

Do they throttle speeds or have any download limitations?

Do they shape traffic to limit torrents etc?

Is the network reliable?
 
AlecR said:
If only the government looked at this rather than constantly favouring/choosing BT (even though there products are vastly inferior - FTTC is NOT future-proof) - *sigh*.
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You expect the government to favour a system that's basically only viable in certain blocks of city centre flats, to a system that's potentially available to the majority of the country over existing infrastructure?

New infrastructure is horribly expensive. Even the mass cable roll-out that became Virgin Media only touched a fraction of the country, and that was a financial disaster.
 
some quotes on that link of interest

"Overall Speed: It is glorious to have 1Gbps. I use 2 yr old Macbook Air and get 200Mbps+ over wifi and 700Mbps over wired connection"

"First Invoice was £156 including installation etc.

Now £60 a month including VAT. Totally worth it."

I am shocked something like this exist and works for this day and age, would have imagined at least 10 years away.... next year virgin/bt try for 150-200meg.... Yet this is really amazing speeds and cheap considering speeds!
 
It's easy for them because they can cherry pick their locations. Ask them to provide the same service to the majority of homes in any small UK town and it'd be a completely different matter.
 
I've had 1G hyperoptic installed since July and it's just 1G metro ethernet, it does what it says on the tin lol.

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The ping to UK game servers is impressive too, I jump on servers with a ping of 1,

[root@freenas ~]# ping multiplay.co.uk
PING multiplay.co.uk (85.236.96.26): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 85.236.96.26: icmp_seq=0 ttl=58 time=0.766 ms
64 bytes from 85.236.96.26: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=0.648 ms
64 bytes from 85.236.96.26: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=0.805 ms
64 bytes from 85.236.96.26: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=0.737 ms
64 bytes from 85.236.96.26: icmp_seq=4 ttl=58 time=0.640 ms
 
I've had Hyperoptic service since August too, it has been flawless so far:

SpeedTest to Ookla's gigabit test server hosted in Amsterdam:

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and a more recent one from tonight:

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Highest actual in-use speeds I've seen were on some Steam downloads that peaked at 32 MBytes/s (256 Mbit/s).
 
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AlecR said:
If only the government looked at this rather than constantly favouring/choosing BT (even though there products are vastly inferior - FTTC is NOT future-proof) - *sigh*.
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BDUK funds Openreach because they are the only people who put cables into the ground and don't also run an ISP. If they gave the money to Virgin or these guys then in a lot of places the only option for fast broadband would be to buy it from a private company who got a government subsidy to be there. That's the reason most/all of the rural broadband projects haven't received government funding, because they either refuse to or don't have the infrastructure in place to allow competing suppliers to use their cables.
 
I'm waiting to get this installed but man their customer services sucks, one minute it was meant to be installed october 2013 then Nov 2013 then by mid Jan 2014, I just called up today and now hopefully by the end of the month:confused:


Personally I think £60 is a bit excessive for the 1gig in 2014 but having a constant download/upload speed with no restrictions on volume of data also having to use sky broadband with no option of their fibre service or any other fibre provider service in the apartments I just have to try out the 1gig when it becomes live.
 
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