Virgin or BT? fibre

Timalay

cajef wrote: »

Well that makes me wonder what I have got as I watched the openreach engineer blow the fibre cable through to my property and as there no new green cabinets near me the FTTP I have installed and am paying for must be a myth.

and Hyperoptic must be a thing of legend.

Jamie_Carter

Jon_01 wrote: »

Which is my problem. I'm with BE, who've been sold to Sky.

In the 5 years I been with BE they've gone down twice for a total of about 10 hours.
I've the impression that with anyone else loss of service is a weekly, if not daily 'feature' of their company and you've no redress (other than a bit of line credit, which it no use if you can't do your work).

Surly in this day and age customers shouldn't have to put up with this level of crap service from these company's, who clearly lie in all their add's about how great they are...

Well in the 20 odd years that I've been with VM, they have only actually been down on a handful of occasions. And usually by the time I have got through to customer service, the connection is back to normal. Even when they have said that it could be down for a few days, it has actually been a few hours at the most.

Jamie_Carter

cajef wrote: »

You say that yet BT have installed FTTP to our residential estate and several others in Cornwall, it is the only choice I have as talking to the Openreach engineers that were doing the installation that is the only option as they are not installing FTTC in my particular area.

I am getting FTTP for the same price as FTTC.

You are extremely lucky to be in a trial area then.

Jamie_Carter

Peter999 wrote: »

I'm afraid you don't know what you're talking about.

FTTP is available in York, I've seen it with my own eyes installed in a friends house. There is fibre running directly into the house and its a residential property and not a business (and it didn't cost £1.5k either!).

See here :

http://www.itpro.co.uk/636547/bt-promises-300mbps-fttp-by-2012

As I said previously its not available to a lot of people yet.

It says six areas (which includes York).

What you have to remember is that for business use they have been able to do FTTP for a while.

cajef

Jamie_Carter wrote: »

You are extremely lucky to be in a trial area then.

Lucky maybe but it is not a trial area.

http://www.superfastcornwall.org/about-sfc

kwikbreaks

ncore wrote: »

If anyone is thinking of joining virgin media private message me and I can refer you as a friend , which can give you £50 off installation

Apart from being against forum rules to solicit referrals more savings can be made by using a cashback site - TopCashBack or Quidco for instance.

Jamie_Carter

I should point out that unless you have extremely high internet usage then the 120mb provided by Virgin is far more than anybody actually needs.

Cycrow

Even when throttled, the 120mb line would still be faster than BT Fibre.

Virgin can be abit hit and miss, if you are in an oversubscribed area, then they service can end up being pretty bad.

If not, then its usually quick and reliable.

Virgin and BT Fibre is still Fibre, its just not Fibre all the way to the house

Jamie_Carter

Cycrow wrote: »

Even when throttled, the 120mb line would still be faster than BT Fibre.

Virgin can be abit hit and miss, if you are in an oversubscribed area, then they service can end up being pretty bad.

If not, then its usually quick and reliable.

Virgin and BT Fibre is still Fibre, its just not Fibre all the way to the house

And with Virgin it is still via thick coax cable from the cabinet to the house, rather than via a thin phone line.

kwikbreaks

The practical difference between cable and VDSL (eg Infinity) is that with cable you will get the headline speed you buy 30/60/120 and with VDSL your actual sysc still depends on distance. With cable heavy downloading during declared peak periods will see your headline speed reduced by up to 40%.