Fast Broadband - How Many ?

50Twuncle

How many of you have fast broadband ?
We don't - we have to survive on an unreliable 4Mbps max
If you go to http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/ - put in your post code and it tells you "your exchange is accepting orders" - you might assume that before long, you will be able to connect at up to 40Mbps ?

But if the truth were known - this is a total lie - designed by BT to keep the government happy with their supposed stats.

In our case - we are Talk Talk customers - BT decided to stop providing fibre, for financial reasons - 10 doors down from my house - with half the road converted !!
I have been trying to get BT to run a fibre the 200 yards from the nearest converted cabinet to our cabinet - but they won't even reply now.............
What other options do we have ?
Not Satellite - too expensive and limited !!

AndysDad

50Twuncle wrote: »

How many of you have fast broadband ?
We don't - we have to survive on an unreliable 4Mbps max
If you go to http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/ - put in your post code and it tells you "your exchange is accepting orders" - you might assume that before long, you will be able to connect at up to 40Mbps ?

But if the truth were known - this is a total lie - designed by BT to keep the government happy with their supposed stats.

In our case - we are Talk Talk customers - BT decided to stop providing fibre, for financial reasons - 10 doors down from my house - with half the road converted !!
I have been trying to get BT to run a fibre the 200 yards from the nearest converted cabinet to our cabinet - but they won't even reply now.............
What other options do we have ?
Not Satellite - too expensive and limited !!

You're lucky I only get 2Mbps.......:(

50Twuncle

AndysDad wrote: »

You're lucky I only get 2Mbps.......:(

Yesterday - we had 630kbps !!!!

Timalay

Have you tried tethering on a 3g mobile via the One Plan on Three? Some people have found it faster than their home broadband.

vikingtraveller

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/2819317633

36.63Mb Down
8.96Mb Up

Usually download at 3-4MB per sec

Sky Fibre, i live up north and i tested it on a london server

LeafGreen

I was getting ~ 1.3-1.8 Mbps on standard BB, upgraded to Fibre a couple of weeks ago and now get 37Mbps wired, and anything from 15-30Mbps wireless.

I was quite surprised that fibre became available in my area to be honest as I am in quite a small village on the outskirts of the city.

50Twuncle

I live in the SW of UK - and got quite excited when BT started upgrading all of the cabinets (leaving "Fast Fibre available here now" labels on them) - yet when I looked into it - BT are a bunch of chancers - they claim their £billions for upgrading a few lines - you check your town on the website and see that it has been upgraded - but your property still has to be done !!
I emailed them (hard to find email address) and received a standard spiel back "financial hardship prevents them from extending the upgrade any further"
So I replied "How about running a fibre from the cabinet 100 yards away to my cabinet, 100 yards the other way ?"
NO REPLY !!

kwikbreaks

50Twuncle wrote: »

BT are a bunch of chancers - they claim their £billions for upgrading a few lines

What £billions are those then?

oldagetraveller

I'm lucky to achieve a blistering 4.5Mb/sec from my rural exchange.
Fibre will possible be available quite a while after hell freezes over!

50Twuncle

kwikbreaks wrote: »

What £billions are those then?

BT Openreach have a £2.5billion contract with the government to upgrade 2/3 of the country to fast fibre by spring 2014 - they are failing to meet the requirements and the government doesn't give two hoots about this !!
Anyway - the details don't state the number of users that need to be connected - so, in theory, BT need only upgrade a single user in each of 66% of exchanges across the country to get their blood money !
I am not, for one minute, suggesting that this is what BT are doing - but in my case - with the rest of the town upgraded, this is how it feels to me !!

kwikbreaks

The £2.5Bn is BT's own fibre investment. There is a lesser sum available from the government for rural broadband from which the NAO say BT may eventually get £1.2Bn but they are nowhere near that yet - http://www.nao.org.uk/press-releases/the-rural-broadband-programme-2/

Your cabinet may get upgraded eventually if BT consider it to be a worthwhile investment for them.