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maj said:
With my current Sky contract due for renewal this month I've been shopping around and remember these putting a flyer through my door a few months back when they were on site presumably laying their infrastructure.

Looking at their price vs package they look very tempting indeed. Looks like I can get 1000mb for cheaper than I'm paying Sky for 500. Interestingly doing a postcode search they have entire street house numbers but not us. Can't imagine there being an issue though but does mean I can't get an up to date speed estimate and price without putting someone else's house number in.
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Might be worth giving them a call.
 
MissChief said:
Meanwhile I'm still waiting on Youfibre coming ever closer but at the rate I see them and the lack of any roadworks or Permits for them anywhere close to me I suspect it's not happening this year. Seems I'll be stuck on 80/20 for a while longer as I really don't want to go to Virgin as I'm sure performance will be terrible for ping and latency.
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Could be a lot worse, in the same boat but my fttc could only manage 15.5/0.7 so reluctantly got virgin lucky not in a congested area but had more problems with the virgin BB in two years that our ancient bt line in two decades.
 
Got my Youfibre install this coming Thursday,

Went for the 1Gpbs up / 1Gbps down, 12 Months at £1 a month 12 Months at £29.99 a month

Tempted with the 2Gbps but being honest 1 will be fine, upgraded mainly for the upload speed, as we use Three 5G currently for our home broadband and download is great at about 700mbps, but upload is only 60 to 70. so the upload boost is a massive bonis

What Iwant to ask is have most people stuck with their own router, I have an ASUS tuf AX6000 with 2x 2.5gb Wan Ports so was planning on using that instead of the supplied router with the second WAN going to the THree as Backup/Loadshare (Stuck with it for 12 months so may as well use it)

Thiunk CGNAT is going to be a problem with my Home Automations but will wait and see what the ipv6 is before jumping on a fixed ipv4 for a fiver a month

Anyone have any pointers would welcome any advice.
 
jonnymc4 said:
I'm just within the Greater Manchester area over the Lancashire border from you, and we had the main cables laid earlier this year originally saying the build would be complete in '23. Openreach has since installed FTTP (started after Netomnia laid their first cable and completed the area), and perhaps removed all the blockages in the ducts for Netomnia whist doing it? I got in contact with Netomnia and was told their design and build would now be complete by the end of next year. I'm happy to get by on Openreach for the time being having jumped from VM. I know others aren't in the same position.
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I've eventually emailed Netomnia instead (obviously the parent company to youfibre), so have it from the horses mouth so to speak. The build has been paused, (the excuse) struggling to get contractors to do the work etc etc.

So I've decided to bite the bullet, given my 30 days notice to VM and signed up to :rolleyes: talktalk unfortunately, probably the best of a bad bunch around my way I'd say. Just on the off chance youfibre do get their stuff together within the 18 months contract with talktalk, hoping they still offer a contract buyout so could go over to them rather than sit it out. Can live in hope. :D
 
It looks like YouFibre have changed their pricing structure. I took out the 1GB for £1/month for 3 months (that's all I had left on my current contract and they were only going to give me more £1 months if I could send them a copy of my current contract end date....) and then £29.99 for the remainder (Installing on the 12th).

Looks like the £1/month for three months has now been removed, along with the 500mb option. On their site they are just showing:
150mbps - £21.99
1000 - £27.99
2000 - £49.99
8000 - £99.99

Looks like they will still do their "current contract buy-out" - but the default first three months for £1 isn't appearing anywhere.
 
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stoofa said:
It looks like YouFibre have changed their pricing structure. I took out the 1GB for £1/month for 3 months (that's all I had left on my current contract and they were only going to give me more £1 months if I could send them a copy of my current contract end date....) and then £29.99 for the remainder (Installing on the 12th).

Looks like the £1/month for three months has now been removed, along with the 500mb option. On their site they are just showing:
150mbps - £21.99
1000 - £27.99
2000 - £49.99
8000 - £99.99

Looks like they will still do their "current contract buy-out" - but the default first three months for £1 isn't appearing anywhere.
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Yep I was lucky just got in, in time, 12 months at £1 and then the £29.99 for 12 months with renewal currently at £27.99 after that (Also got a free Static IP thrown in which is normally a fiver a month)

Was installed today in about an hour (Old virgin media hole in wall so no drilling needed)

So far very impressed

940up 940down 2ms ping and no jitter.. Cant ask more than that
 
Av8 said:
I've eventually emailed Netomnia instead (obviously the parent company to youfibre), so have it from the horses mouth so to speak. The build has been paused, (the excuse) struggling to get contractors to do the work etc etc.

So I've decided to bite the bullet, given my 30 days notice to VM and signed up to :rolleyes: talktalk unfortunately, probably the best of a bad bunch around my way I'd say. Just on the off chance youfibre do get their stuff together within the 18 months contract with talktalk, hoping they still offer a contract buyout so could go over to them rather than sit it out. Can live in hope. :D
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I've just asked on their most recent tweet today and have said their contractor, Make It Happen, went bust and so work in Horwich paused. Hoping to restart but didn't give me any more information than that.
 
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jonnymc4 said:
I've just asked on their most recent tweet today and have said their contractor, Make It Happen, went bust and so work in Horwich paused. Hoping to restart but didn't give me any more information than that.
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Funny you mention ‘make it happen’ gone bust, there was a van of theirs parked on a drive not far from where I live and now that’s gone as that’s one of them I saw doing work over the last 7 months or so. Gutted tbh. Not holding my breath for a new contractor doing their build.
 
How are they with torrents? I hear even starting up Linux ISO torrents will have them emailing you in a couple minutes with their acceptable usage policy. Not sure if the people are stupid saying this or YouFibre is running some sort of port scan for torrent traffic automatically.

@flashyphotos I also heard using your own router can be really difficult as you have to give them your router MAC address if not on the Eero they supply. Did that happen to you?
 
GregI said:
How are they with torrents? I hear even starting up Linux ISO torrents will have them emailing you in a couple minutes with their acceptable usage policy. Not sure if the people are stupid saying this or YouFibre is running some sort of port scan for torrent traffic automatically.

@flashyphotos I also heard using your own router can be really difficult as you have to give them your router MAC address if not on the Eero they supply. Did that happen to you?
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No I just opened my Asus Tuf AX6000 settings and copied in the MAC address from the supplied eero router plugged it in and it works fine.. Although You fibre customer services said they were more than happy to do it if you phone in and give them the MAC of your new router, but it takes 24 hours to go through to Tier 3 Ser vies who do the change, so a lot quicker just to clone the MAC from your existing router

As for Torrents I dont know, but they dont seem to have any problem with huge downloads form newsgroups which easily saturate the 1gbps downlaod speed. Whistles !
 
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The policy just seems so weird to me.

"YouFibre do not have a traffic management Policy, although YouFibre may choose to introduce one in the future. However, it should be noted that the YouFibre will identify and notify you of excessive use and if we believe that your use of the internet, our Network or Services is so excessive that other customers’ Services are being harmed, then we may and can give you a written warning to reduce your use. If you do not do this, we may suspend or end your Services with YouFibre"

So they can put in traffic management if they want.

How would me downloading a lot of stuff harm the service of others if you have planning to forsee capacity as you grow? Like what do they think people are ordering 8Gbps for? To upload photos of their cat in 4k?

It's like saying "Give us £100 a month but actually you can't utilize that bandwidth 24/7 or else we'll warn you".
 
This is perfectly normal for broadband services. ISPs do not have the capacity for everybody to use the full speed of their connection 24x7.
 
True but some clarity on what is deemed excessive would be nice. Are we talking 1 TB or 100 TB a month?
 
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GregI said:
True but some clarity on what is deemed excessive would be nice. Are we talking 1 TB or 100 TB a month?
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I can’t say for YouFibre but I can for Sky. I saw some users with over 1TB of usage every month and nothing was done and that was on FTTC. On a 1G connection I’d imagine they’d not even blink at 2TB usage.
 
MissChief said:
I can’t say for YouFibre but I can for Sky. I saw some users with over 1TB of usage every month and nothing was done and that was on FTTC. On a 1G connection I’d imagine they’d not even blink at 2TB usage.
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Would agree with that, on Three 5G home broadband we were often over 4Tb a month and they never said anything...
 
Around 5 TB a month would be the bare minimum I would be happy with. I have over 25 TB in the cloud that needs to be shifted.

I know people that would upload about 20 TB a month on BT FTTP and nothing was said. They are currently sitting on 2 PB of upload.
 
YouFibre chap came out to see me this morning (he was scheduled for an afternoon install, but he called to see if he could come in the morning).
Routed all the external cabling exactly as I wanted it (didn't want it coming in where the current BT line runs in). Did a really neat job, all attached to the brickwork etc.

All up and running and on my only Speedtest I'm seeing 951 Mbps in each direction.
 
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