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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Migalot on 10 February 2023, 15:54:58
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After a long wait, Open Infra (Swedish company) have today provided me with Fibre To The Property (FTTP).
Last night, my BT speeds were 31.89Mps Download and 5.72Mps Upload.
Now with the newly-connected Nokia router, the figures are 492Mps D/L and 497Mps U/L.
Happy times. :y
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So, after years of waiting, Swish, Gigaclear and Openreach are all doing my estate this year. Just like the number 27 bus....
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Can't see that happening round here for a decade or two... ::)
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So, after years of waiting, Swish, Gigaclear and Openreach are all doing my estate this year. Just like the number 27 bus....
Just in time for the launch a f the OOF specialist video entertainment site. :o
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So, after years of waiting, Swish, Gigaclear and Openreach are all doing my estate this year. Just like the number 27 bus....
And if it's anything like our road, Gigaclear will arrive first and cut a nice neat trench next to the kerb and make good with the tarmac in a short time. Swish will follow and take an eternity to dig a trench zig-zagging all over the place and then Openreach will follow and repair the existing lines that Swish cut through digging their trench. ;D
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Oh stop complaining. Imagine living in the beautiful Spanish countryside with sun and not much rain.
Internet? 4G headline 10 gb down and only 0.7 up so Skype video is rubbish. However as each day goes on the down speed reduces to Zero by 11 pm
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So, after years of waiting, Swish, Gigaclear and Openreach are all doing my estate this year. Just like the number 27 bus....
And if it's anything like our road, Gigaclear will arrive first and cut a nice neat trench next to the kerb and make good with the tarmac in a short time. Swish will follow and take an eternity to dig a trench zig-zagging all over the place and then Openreach will follow and repair the existing lines that Swish cut through digging their trench. ;D
You forgot the bit where they damage your mains feed, wrap it in duct tape and bury it then a couple of days later it dies. >:(
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Can somebody enlighten me as to why I would need super duper speeds when I’m managing alright at the moment. :-\ I subscribe to and watch Netflix, Prime Movies and music etc so what am I missing by not having FTTP. Genuine question as nobody in our road opted to go for the super fast fibre, and several of them have home offices and work from home. What am I missing, or is it aimed at people who suffered with FTTC. :-\
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::)
These go to Eleven... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW008FcKr3Q) :P
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Can somebody enlighten me as to why I would need super duper speeds when I’m managing alright at the moment. :-\ I subscribe to and watch Netflix, Prime Movies and music etc so what am I missing by not having FTTP. Genuine question as nobody in our road opted to go for the super fast fibre, and several of them have home offices and work from home. What am I missing, or is it aimed at people who suffered with FTTC. :-\
Careful - you're not allowed to think like that. You must buy the latest iPhone 99x+ which requires 5G and gigabit upload/download WIFI. So you absolutely need FTTP. Oh and Smart meters, Sky TV, Amazon Prime, etc, etc. Doesn't matter if you can't afford it - just cut back on food and pop down the local food bank. I hear they're all the rage.
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Can somebody enlighten me as to why I would need super duper speeds when I’m managing alright at the moment. :-\ I subscribe to and watch Netflix, Prime Movies and music etc so what am I missing by not having FTTP. Genuine question as nobody in our road opted to go for the super fast fibre, and several of them have home offices and work from home. What am I missing, or is it aimed at people who suffered with FTTC. :-\
Careful - you're not allowed to think like that. You must buy the latest iPhone 99x+ which requires 5G and gigabit upload/download WIFI. So you absolutely need FTTP. Oh and Smart meters, Sky TV, Amazon Prime, etc, etc. Doesn't matter if you can't afford it - just cut back on food and pop down the local food bank. I hear they're all the rage.
Na !
56K dial up is plenty fast enough for the members of OFF :P
I doubt they'd get the Modem drivers to update their computers to windows 7 :D
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Can somebody enlighten me as to why I would need super duper speeds when I’m managing alright at the moment. :-\ I subscribe to and watch Netflix, Prime Movies and music etc so what am I missing by not having FTTP. Genuine question as nobody in our road opted to go for the super fast fibre, and several of them have home offices and work from home. What am I missing, or is it aimed at people who suffered with FTTC. :-\
Careful - you're not allowed to think like that. You must buy the latest iPhone 99x+ which requires 5G and gigabit upload/download WIFI. So you absolutely need FTTP. Oh and Smart meters, Sky TV, Amazon Prime, etc, etc. Doesn't matter if you can't afford it - just cut back on food and pop down the local food bank. I hear they're all the rage.
Ah, that’s me out then. I use my wife’s old android phone when she upgrades hers, and my laptop is a HP Pavilion something or other with Vista on it, so not much use now I’m guessing. ;D
Oh, and I haven’t got a smart meter, not for want of them trying, as I agreed to have one in my tariff apparently. ::)
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When BT 'upgraded' me to 100Mbs from 25, it made no difference as far as I can tell. The only thing that increased was my bill.
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Had City Fibre do all the work for our estate. First sub contractors made such a dogs dinner of the groundwork etc. that they got kicked of the job and it was finished by a new crew. They had to rip out parts of the cable network as it was in such a mess. Was chaos for weeks. Don't know how many residents have signed up to it yet.
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So, after years of waiting, Swish, Gigaclear and Openreach are all doing my estate this year. Just like the number 27 bus....
And if it's anything like our road, Gigaclear will arrive first and cut a nice neat trench next to the kerb and make good with the tarmac in a short time. Swish will follow and take an eternity to dig a trench zig-zagging all over the place and then Openreach will follow and repair the existing lines that Swish cut through digging their trench. ;D
I know Swish use Openreach ducts, I think Gigaclear have a licence to as well. So hopefully no disruption other than the usualy troubles caused by the knuckle draggers pulling fibres through busy ducts.
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Can somebody enlighten me as to why I would need super duper speeds when I’m managing alright at the moment. :-\ I subscribe to and watch Netflix, Prime Movies and music etc so what am I missing by not having FTTP. Genuine question as nobody in our road opted to go for the super fast fibre, and several of them have home offices and work from home. What am I missing, or is it aimed at people who suffered with FTTC. :-\
A valid point :y.
In my case, I use a lot of cloud based storage, so a better upload than what I currently get is beneficial. As for downloads, we do get a bit of video stutter when streaming 4k video, but I accept our primary line is busier than most. But the real reason is my tight fisted company has decided to remove my work broadband, so we're dropping to one line, and with us both working from home, that causes a lot of contention, especially since we both have to tolerate that cancer of modern officework, MS Teams (which is a massive bandwidth hog, as well as CPU and memory hog). So I'm looking for a significant improvement in upload speed more than anything, with a modest bump in download just to give us a little more headroom when streaming, and you buggers are hammering OOF ;D
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Oh stop complaining. Imagine living in the beautiful Spanish countryside with sun and not much rain.
Internet? 4G headline 10 gb down and only 0.7 up so Skype video is rubbish. However as each day goes on the down speed reduces to Zero by 11 pm
Why do you need Internet? Surely the whole point of moving to the middle of nowhere is to avoid being connected?