Finally, Fibre in area but really slow speed estimates

Finally, Fibre in area but really slow speed estimates

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Original Poster:

4,912 posts

250 months

Wednesday 17th December 2014
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This is what we currently get on ADSL



After years of waiting, our cabinet went live for Fibre today. But, the estimated speeds are really poor - download only slightly faster than ADSL and upload potentially slower! Our cabinet is approximately half a mile away, but obviously I don't know the path the cabling takes.

Estimates here:



My current provider uses the lower of the ranges as their estimate and does not suggest attempting to move to fibre frown Clearly after all this waiting and expectation this is a real blow!

I'm really looking for an increased upload speed. Download speed is OK. If however I end up with 0.8 upload compared to my current 1.1 I'll be stuck for a year on a poorer service. Fibre is around £5/month more, but is unlimited (200Gb cap right now).

Anyone been in a similar situation? Was it worth upgrading?

Bikerjon

2,202 posts

160 months

Wednesday 17th December 2014
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It's happened in the area I cover too. Fibre has arrived but for many the distance to the nearest cabinet is still a long way - which questions the whole point of FTTC! Some people are getting a marginal benefit over ADSL, but nothing like the advertised speeds. Not enough cabinets it seems!

telford_mike

1,219 posts

184 months

Wednesday 17th December 2014
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Some good info here:
http://www.increasebroadbandspeed.co.uk/2013/chart...

If you're half a mile away it looks like you should get about 30mb, but who knows which way the copper cables actually go?

Ilikebeaver

2,952 posts

180 months

Wednesday 17th December 2014
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Exciting news if radnage has it.
That means it should be at Chinnor hill any moment now and all my bt issues will be over!

(Wishful thinking)

blueg33

35,586 posts

223 months

Wednesday 17th December 2014
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At least you are getting it. They are missing my village out but doing all the others around it!

onesickpuppy

2,648 posts

156 months

Wednesday 17th December 2014
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I have the same problem, currently getting about 2Meg on BB but fibre has just been released on our cabinet at the blisteringly fast speed of....1.7Meg.

Pissedoff.com.

rossmc88

474 posts

159 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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My village has recently had Infinity installed, I've went from 4 Down 0.5 Up to 70 Down 20 Up

My broadband cost has doubled from £20 per month to £40 per month excluding line rental, but I'm happy to pay it. I can watch all my youtube videos in 1080p with no lag smile Accessing my home server remotely is much faster with the huge upload speed increase too! Sorry to rub it in

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Original Poster:

4,912 posts

250 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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rossmc88 said:
My village has recently had Infinity installed, I've went from 4 Down 0.5 Up to 70 Down 20 Up

My broadband cost has doubled from £20 per month to £40 per month excluding line rental, but I'm happy to pay it. I can watch all my youtube videos in 1080p with no lag smile Accessing my home server remotely is much faster with the huge upload speed increase too! Sorry to rub it in
Well yes, that was my expectation based on all the advertising. If the speed estimate is to be believed the reality would be very different and there appears to be nothing that can be done. I'd take the risk, but it appears it's a one way move for 12 months.

Rosscow

8,723 posts

162 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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rossmc88 said:
My village has recently had Infinity installed, I've went from 4 Down 0.5 Up to 70 Down 20 Up

My broadband cost has doubled from £20 per month to £40 per month excluding line rental, but I'm happy to pay it. I can watch all my youtube videos in 1080p with no lag smile Accessing my home server remotely is much faster with the huge upload speed increase too! Sorry to rub it in
Our improvement was even better - 1mbps download and 0.3mbps upload to full blown 76mbps download and 20mbpd upload!

It's fantastic!

Downloaded LOTR Fellowship of the Ring in full HD in about 8 minutes the other day.

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Original Poster:

4,912 posts

250 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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Rosscow said:
Our improvement was even better - 1mbps download and 0.3mbps upload to full blown 76mbps download and 20mbpd upload!

It's fantastic!

Downloaded LOTR Fellowship of the Ring in full HD in about 8 minutes the other day.
THIS IS NOT HELPING tongue out

Elroy Blue

8,686 posts

191 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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I changed over yesterday. Went from 2mbps download to 20mbps. Upload from 0.8mbps to 9mbps. Not anywhere near the bottom estimates and to be honest, I haven't noticed the difference yet.

Rosscow

8,723 posts

162 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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Rosscow said:
Our improvement was even better - 1mbps download and 0.3mbps upload to full blown 76mbps download and 20mbpd upload!

It's fantastic!

Downloaded LOTR Fellowship of the Ring in full HD in about 8 minutes the other day.
THIS IS NOT HELPING tongue out
hehe

Apologies smile

RichTT

3,047 posts

170 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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Fibre's apparently been rolled out to half our village but not our postcode just yet. But seeing as I get 10-16mb down 1.5mb up on standard TalkTalk ADSL I'm not in any rush. I'll definitely upgrade when I get the chance though.

FlossyThePig

4,083 posts

242 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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This is my speed with FTTC connecting to three different servers.



The cabinet is about a mile from me, so I mustn't grumble (I was getting about 3Mb/s on ADSL).

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Original Poster:

4,912 posts

250 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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This is my current ADSL connection. Cabinet is 0.6 miles via road, half that as the crow (or Red Kite round here) flies.

Don't think this is bad at all for ADSL and cabinet doesn't see that far, so surprised the fibre estimates are so poor.

funkyrobot

18,789 posts

227 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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We live around a mile or just under from the cabinet that serves our fibre. We get 18 - 20 mb upload. Not great, but better than the 4 - 5 meg we used to get on normal BB.

I may give BT a call and see if there are any cabinets closer to us.

750turbo

6,164 posts

223 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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We have just been upgraded, the single good thing that the Scottish Gov has achieved IMO.



We were 6 download and 0.5 up.

beko1987

1,636 posts

133 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Ilikebeaver said:
Exciting news if radnage has it.
That means it should be at Chinnor hill any moment now and all my bt issues will be over!

(Wishful thinking)
Their digging up bits of chinnor to lay the fibre cables now! Sister in law lives opposite where their doing some (van diemens)

Apparently there was an issue with the siting of one of the cabs by the Crown, not sure what happened with that (both brother in laws work for BT, one apparently in charge of the whole thing).

Alex106

980 posts

195 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Well yes, that was my expectation based on all the advertising. If the speed estimate is to be believed the reality would be very different and there appears to be nothing that can be done. I'd take the risk, but it appears it's a one way move for 12 months.
Are you suggesting you could switch back to copper broadband afterwards?

I used to work for BT who would not switch people back to copper once fibre had been activated at their property. Ask the question before you commit, if you do.

In other news:


ADSL broadband from BT. Not complaining! Cabinet is about 250metres away though.

Edited by Alex106 on Friday 19th December 18:56

xreyuk

665 posts

144 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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Alex106 said:
ADSL broadband from BT. Not complaining! Cabinet is about 250metres away though.

Edited by Alex106 on Friday 19th December 18:56
Doesn't matter how far your cabinet is when you're on ADSL, it matters to the exchange. ADSL holds speed much better over long distances than VDSL (which is what BT Infinity is)