Check Internet quality on house

F37A

Hi 

Purchasing a property but forgot to check internet quality. Is there a reliable website to use to check internet quality for a property?

Thanks 

Slithery

What do you mean by quality?
Speed? Reliability? Number of providers? Neatest installation?

F37A

Slithery said:

What do you mean by quality?
Speed? Reliability? Number of providers? Neatest installation?

I guess speed is most important. Though would be good to know those other points too.

MidnightWolf

Do an address search on https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL/AddressHome

You can also check BT fibre availability at https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband

[Deleted User]

This one https://checker.ofcom.org.uk/en-gb/broadband-coverage        is very reliable. We found before our last move that any standard checkers were showing we could get much higher speeds than were actually possible but the Ofcom one seems to be fairly accurate.

[Deleted User]

What you really need to know is if it has fibre to the house. Not fake fibre with the last bit copper.

If it has it then you will get good, reliable speed. Anything else is pot luck. It might say "up to 67mbps" (slow) but in reality you might not even get that.

nekr0mantik

Deleted_User said:

This one https://checker.ofcom.org.uk/en-gb/broadband-coverage        is very reliable. We found before our last move that any standard checkers were showing we could get much higher speeds than were actually possible but the Ofcom one seems to be fairly accurate.

That checker is not accurate. I put in my current postcode and it says max 330 but I am on 900.
Also on new apartment postcode it says only Virgin is there but I know people have FTTP from Openreach and Openreach tracker shows FTTP.

flashg67

[Deleted User] said:

What you really need to know is if it has fibre to the house. Not fake fibre with the last bit copper.

If it has it then you will get good, reliable speed. Anything else is pot luck. It might say "up to 67mbps" (slow) but in reality you might not even get that.

In reality, I'd suggest many households can easily manage with FTTC. I have to use 4g internet because of my location and get around 35mbps which is fine for 2 of us working from home and streaming video. 

Slithery

Have you thought of asking the vendor?

Anyhow, Starlink will be out of beta soon and available to the general public. Location will no longer be an issue.

MidnightWolf

nekr0mantik said:

Deleted_User said:

This one https://checker.ofcom.org.uk/en-gb/broadband-coverage        is very reliable. We found before our last move that any standard checkers were showing we could get much higher speeds than were actually possible but the Ofcom one seems to be fairly accurate.

That checker is not accurate. I put in my current postcode and it says max 330 but I am on 900.
Also on new apartment postcode it says only Virgin is there but I know people have FTTP from Openreach and Openreach tracker shows FTTP.

Same for me. It doesn’t seem to have been updated for BT’s 900 mbit product. It also indicates ADSL and FTTC speeds available at my address, but I only have a FTTP line. It’s just indicative of what is available from the local exchange, whereas the BT checker I linked gives the information for an individual property.

MidnightWolf

[Deleted User] said:

What you really need to know is if it has fibre to the house. Not fake fibre with the last bit copper.

If it has it then you will get good, reliable speed. Anything else is pot luck. It might say "up to 67mbps" (slow) but in reality you might not even get that.

I wouldn’t call 67mbps “slow”. I was grateful for speeds like that at my old address after years stuck on a ropey ADSL connection at around 5mbps.