What are your Internet speeds

[floppybootstomp]

Erm, Up & Down both 165.6, ping: 2. ISP: Hyperoptic, this is the medium speed plan.

 

[Quadophile]

Erm, Up & Down both 165.6, ping: 2. ISP: Hyperoptic, this is the medium speed plan.

I have never seen ping 2 at my end, the best I remember was like 7 or 8 but that is rare, more like 12 to 18 in most cases

 

[EvanDavis]

I'm currently with TalkTalk and get 75 down and 16 up for £27 a month. We have also just had Community Fibre installed in the building and I am tempted but will wait a few months and see if other neighbours get it and see what they say.

 

[floppybootstomp]

I'm currently with TalkTalk and get 75 down and 16 up for £27 a month. We have also just had Community Fibre installed in the building and I am tempted but will wait a few months and see if other neighbours get it and see what they say.

My plan with Hyperoptic (the medium one of three options) costs £38 a calendar month which is a bit pricey but it's the same price I was paying to Zen for a lot less speed. This is not to belittle Zen, I was with them for 13 years but when Hyperoptic installed cable in the block of flats where I live their offer was too good to refuse. Their service is excellent and includes a telephone landline but no e-mail addresses or web space.

The best bit though is they're totally independent of BT, including the landline.

 

[Ian]

Just got a new fiber connection installed on Thursday.

Oh my word. That is fast! That's almost as fast as an internal home network .

 

[EvanDavis]

So I was thinking about going to Community Fibre but after speaking to a couple of neighbours who have it I decided to stay with TalkTalk That said last week my bill went upto £30 a month for the same service. Yesterday my phone rang an 0800 number and for what ever reason I answered which I normally wouldn't. Anyway it was TalkTalk and I have now been upgraded to their Fibre 150 package for £26 a month and contract locked for 24 months so they can't put prices up. OpenReach will come on the 9th August to set everything up.

 

[Ian]

Cracking deal @EvanDavis! Always nice when you get more for less .

 

[Quadophile]

Since we are on the subject of internet speeds I just came across this article and was greatly embarrassed to find how slow my new fiber-optic connection is compared to NASA's wifi. Nasa's wifi runs at a mind-boggling 91 GB/s per second.

The source

 

[EvanDavis]

This was part of the reason I decided not to go with Community Fibre. This is outside my door. Further along the hall the cables / fibre are just resting on the suspended cieling and not in any sort of trunking or trays.

 

[Quadophile]

This was part of the reason I decided not to go with Community Fibre. This is outside my door. Further along the hall the cables / fibre are just resting on the suspended cieling and not in any sort of trunking or trays.

Here is the fiber cable setup in our house. The first pic is in the backyard where the cable is buried under grass and drilled through the brick wall into the living room.

The second and third pic is inside of the living room where the fiber cable was inserted from backyard.

The fourth pic is of the modem/gateway resting on the table.

 

[EvanDavis]

OpenReach man came this morning. He fitted a new G.fast master socket and a new G.fast MT992 modem. Ran his tests and said no errors on the line. Also learned something interesting after showing him the Community Fibre lines in the suspended cieling outside my flat. He says I need to report it as now by law all cables either have to run in a tray or be clipped to the wall every 8 inches.

 

[Quadophile]

@EvanDavis Wow! Ping 1 ms, perfect for gaming I suppose

 

[V_R]

OpenReach man came this morning. He fitted a new G.fast master socket and a new G.fast MT992 modem. Ran his tests and said no errors on the line. Also learned something interesting after showing him the Community Fibre lines in the suspended cieling outside my flat. He says I need to report it as now by law all cables either have to run in a tray or be clipped to the wall every 8 inches.

Good result for G.Fast.

 

[EvanDavis]

My Fibre 150 came to an end a couple of months back and I was on a rolling contract as I hadn't renewed the old one and I f I renewed it would go up to £39 a month. Quite a jump so I saw they were doing Fibre 250 for £43 a month so upgraded to that rather. In a couple of months, I will call TalkTalk and plead poverty and say I am thinking of leaving and see how much I can get knocked off. Speed it good for a package that is only supposed to be 250mbps.

 

[Captain Jack Sparrow]

I envy you guys. There is no FTTP infrastructure where I live, and as far as I know, there are no plans to do so. I guess I’m stuck with FTTC forever. Openreach appear to have abandoned the G.fast project, so unfortunately I’ll never be able to get faster internet.

It’s VDSL2, so it works out around 72 Mbps download, and 16 Mbps upload. I pay £25/month, including line rental.

As a side note, Openreach no longer stock the VDSL2 modem (Huawei HG612), so if mine fails, I’ll have to buy one from eBay.

 

[EvanDavis]

There is no FTTP infrastructure where I live

Mine is still FTTC although we do have Community Fibre in the building which obviously is FTTP

 

[Captain Jack Sparrow]

Mine is still FTTC although we do have Community Fibre in the building which obviously is FTTP

As cloud services and working remotely have taken off in recent years, FTTC is really showing its age. I wish Openreach would reconsider G.fast for areas where it would be unfeasible or unprofitable to install FTTP infrastructure.

I find myself going into the office more often now, because the FTTC connection can’t always keep up, depending on what I’m doing.

And downloading games from Steam? Yawn. Oh, how I long for the good old days when games were shipped on DVD discs.

 

[stubbzord]

we consistently get higher speeds than we pay for (normally around 215/220 downstream when we pay for 200. Seems pretty reliable. I could up the service to 300 down and 20 up if I wanted but there is no need. 4K Netflix streams instantly.

 

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[Abarbarian]

At the moment am with Talk Talk Fibre 35 till October. I got a deal for £13.99 a month. The speeds are rock solid with no throttling.

There is a company called Oggi doing fibre around here and they are offering 200Mbps for £15 a month. 400Mbps £20, 900Mbps £30, all on 12 month contracts. If they are still offering cheap deals in October I think I will change over.