Village life - slooooow broadband

Feral_Moon

We must be incredibly lucky then as we live in a rural area but have a decent broadband service. Just tested it and got a download speed of 72.67Mbps, upload speed of 19.99Mbps and ping of just 12ms

On the downside we don't have much of a public bus service. Just 5 buses a day Mon-Sat with no evening (after 5:30pm) or Sunday service.


ETA: you can check here whether your area is enabled for super fast broadband... http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/rural-broadband/

SnowTiger

My Internet speed is pretty pathetic too:



However, it's okay for YouTube, SD iPlayer, web surfing, etc.

According to Openreach faster broadband is its way to the village. For the past few months it's been telling me:

Status: Coming soon

Your area will be enabled within the next six months and we'll provide more details nearer the time. At the moment you can't order Superfast Fibre.

I haven't seen any Openreach activity around here, so I think they're being a bit optimistic.

Futuristic

It requires government funding so will take time for fibre in such locations but it'll be there soon(tm)

gt94sss2

SnowTiger wrote: »

According to Openreach faster broadband is its way to the village. For the past few months it's been telling me:

I haven't seen any Openreach activity around here, so I think they're being a bit optimistic.

You are better off relying on this checker to tell you when FTTC/fibre becomes available in your area.

Regards
Sunil

jem16

gt94sss2 wrote: »

You are better off relying on this checker to tell you when FTTC/fibre becomes available in your area.

Regards
Sunil

That doesn't seem very useful. It's telling me that FTTC is available when I know my cabinet hasn't been upgraded for fibre yet.

EDIT : Well between last week and this week it appears that my cabinet is now enabled even though the cabinet shows no signs of fibre.

diamonds

gt94sss2 wrote: »

You are better off relying on this checker to tell you when FTTC/fibre becomes available in your area.

Regards
Sunil

Which tells me I dont have Fibre...exchange has had it or 3 years lol

Use Openreach one above.