New Build - Broadband Speed

Ollie_D

Hi,

I come to you all again for any experiences.

We are looking to purchase a new build property, as sad as it is one my main prerequisites is for a high-speed Internet connection, we currently have 150 Mbps Virgin fibre.

There is/will be BT but sadly no Virgin media.

Does anyone know how reliable the BT speed results will be considering the house isn't built yet? They are currently saying 7Mbps

We have queried with the sales consultant, but all they could say that it will be at national average and that the site office gets about 70Mbps.

Openreach don't appear to have plans to install fibre in the area.

Any experience in this area would be appreciated.

theartfullodger

Go in (physically) to the site office & observe (OOKLA speedtest) what actual speed they are getting.

£5 says it won't be 70Mbps.. If so you know everything else they've been telling you is likely untrue...

Simple answer to your question is, nobody knows: Until the wiring is in, could be anything: Really? Oh yes, someone I know... (that might be me,,) decided to move BT external wiring box: Having done so speed when from unreliable 5/7Mbps to a steady, reliable, almost never drops, 30Mbps. If you get the sparks with big thumbs doing to the connection....


In 10 years time it will (almost) all be mobile anyway: I get faster on my mobile'phone 4G at home - 45Mbps usually, and prices are dropping ....

pete-20-11

I was promised 7Mbps on a new build road / new build estate over four years ago. Ended up with 1.5 Mbps.

BT won't upgrade the service to fibre (we're not in a rural area, just not commercially viable, with lots of VM customers around the estate).

Still trying to get VM to in-fill, they will do it, but the council are playing hardball over pavement resurfacing.

Make sure you get something in writing from the developers, and make sure they have an active agreement with BT to provide fibre - e.g. They're not just promising, it they are actually doing it!

Have a look at Think Broadband forums as it is really good for advice on new builds, openreach plans and similar stuff.

jbainbridge

They can't tell you. Simple as that. Any assurances they give you will be lies!

It depends on -
- cable the developers put in
- is a fibre cabinet available
- is there capacity in the cabinet
- OpenReach

Haylescom

Our new build is a way away from the cabinet, through another 2 villages. There's no vm and no fibre. We get 1.8mbps.

Ollie_D

I would doubt the 70Mbps to but the response was very specific "78.58 download speed, 43.90 upload speed, 35ms"

We have requested confirmation of any correspondence with Bt.

Looks like we might just have to go for it and hope for the best. I'm sure a slow Internet connection wouldn't be the end of the world.

borkid

Ollie_D wrote: »

I would doubt the 70Mbps to but the response was very specific "78.58 download speed, 43.90 upload speed, 35ms"

We have requested confirmation of any correspondence with Bt.

Looks like we might just have to go for it and hope for the best. I'm sure a slow Internet connection wouldn't be the end of the world.

Depends what you want to do. The last house we sold our buyer had us run speed checks because he worked from home , software developer I think, but his office was in the states.

If its just downloading films or recreational stuff then that would be different.

davidmcn

Ollie_D wrote: »

one my main prerequisites is for a high-speed Internet connection

In which case you'd be better to buy an existing house with a known connection speed.

boliston

theartfullodger wrote: »

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In 10 years time it will (almost) all be mobile anyway: I get faster on my mobile'phone 4G at home - 45Mbps usually, and prices are dropping ....

Surely fibre will be far more common - I have 80/20 FTTC but it still requires about 20 metres of copper. I find mobile data quite laggy (100ms+) compared with about 10ms ping time on fttc and cost per gb seems high. I get 1000gb per month for 40 pounds but mobile would probably only get me 1/20th of that data for the same price.

Ollie_D

For anyone who lands here, there's Interesting article here

https://www.cable.co.uk/news/labour-slams-governments-incomprehensible-attitude-to-the-appalling-state-of-broadband-in-new-build-homes-700001296/

Making me reconsider is a new build is the right idea.

swishy87

i'm no expert when it comes to broadband - it either works or it doesn't to me! But, we've been in a new build 2 months and took Virgin Media up on their free three month new build trial. It has been very intermittent, but apparently when it's working it's over 100mb. However, it seems slower than the 56mb we were getting in our old house with BT. Since moving in, OpenReach is now available here and BT estimates we should get 76mb so we're going back to BT. If Virgin worked the speed would be fine, it's just the fact it is unreliable.