superfast broadband caerphilly area

superfast broadband caerphilly area

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agent biscuit

Original Poster:

92 posts

152 months

Tuesday 12th August 2014
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any BT engineers on gassing whom might know when superfast is sprouting in the rudry area …currently rudry has a Robin reliant 3mgbs speed and im used to a porshe 40mgbs in cardiff…. i wanna buy this house with a megga man garage for my minis so i can spend hrs hiding from the mrs and tinkerin with engines……i know the caerphilly exchange has superfast available but rural areas with lots of sheep dont seem high on their list of stuff to do!!
cheers

RyanTank

2,850 posts

153 months

Tuesday 12th August 2014
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popping a random Rudry postcode in this page http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-whe... says its enabled in the area, but not rolled out yet, but also doesn't give a time frame either.

Isnt all of Wales supposedly going to be superfast by 2016?

and your lucky with those Robin Reliant speeds! My speedtest results are frequently under 1mgbs frown
I laugh at the virgin media guy in Cardiff when he offers me a deal, I say to him they aren't in my area yet, he gets confused but looks it up, then is astounded they actually aren't!

agent biscuit

Original Poster:

92 posts

152 months

Tuesday 12th August 2014
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i thinks the japanese are on 100mgbs as average…uk well behind ….not sure if i could do with less than 40mgbs now do all my business online now …how the world has changed!!
try talk talk they have superfast in cardiff and it works.. i think i pay abt £30 month for it…dont even use the tv anymore all media online

RyanTank

2,850 posts

153 months

Wednesday 13th August 2014
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even on my sub 1meg speed i still manage to watch movies streamed through my TV and Xbox. Have yet to have anything other than a tiny bit of lag drop me out of multiplayer games too.

I wouldn't touch talktalk! had the displeasure of dealing with them when i moved to my house.

I know your coveting your 40meg that you are getting in Cardiff, but have you run a consistent check on your actual connection speed. if not you might be surprised at how often your down to half or less than your available speed. Just because they say your getting 40meg doesn't necessarily mean you are. a mate use to work for a BT call center, and his no1 complaint was people saying they aren't getting the 20meg they were paying for, his/corporate answer was "if you check our T&C's it states up to 20meg".

SwissJonese

1,393 posts

174 months

Wednesday 13th August 2014
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I've used BT infinity here in Thornhill Cardiff for the last 2 years and I mainly work from home. I have been getting an average of around 79mbps and upload around 20mbps. Never had a drop in speed and it has never failed, very impressive. This is connecting to the Llanishen exchange.

However almost bought a house a few blocks away (but still Thornhill) which was connected to the Whitchurch exchange and the speed would have decreased to 10mbps so it does depend where you are from the exchange.

agent biscuit

Original Poster:

92 posts

152 months

Wednesday 13th August 2014
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79…. that is superquick….ill start looking for houses in thorhill with a massive garage….

agent biscuit

Original Poster:

92 posts

152 months

Thursday 14th August 2014
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hi ryan
yep its a good 37-40mgbs regular ,but now i want 79 !!

RyanTank

2,850 posts

153 months

Thursday 14th August 2014
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I hate you both frown
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I'd love superfast broadband. but cant afford the new house price to get it biggrin

LuS1fer

41,082 posts

244 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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My broadband is so low, in Caerphilly, they send me a letter telling me when to expect the downloads to complete.... ah well, at least it's cheap.

e39darren

181 posts

140 months

Saturday 1st November 2014
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I'm in caerphilly and im with BT fibre optic and my regular speed is anything from 60-75mbps upload and around 15 maps download, I was told the maximum speed in the area was 80/20 so I'm well happy with that smile

framerateuk

2,730 posts

183 months

Sunday 2nd November 2014
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That's a pretty good speed!

My parents just moved to Crickhowell and they're only getting 3mbps coffee

...that said, in Cardiff I'm currently getting 168mbps smile

hornetrider

63,161 posts

204 months

Tuesday 4th November 2014
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I'm moving into Pontyclun in a few days and we've gone with BT fibre, up to 40meg party

RyanTank

2,850 posts

153 months

Wednesday 5th November 2014
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I hate you all!!!!

Last time i did a speed test at home I was getting less than a meg frown

I needed to download Windows 7 to re install on a knackered laptop the other day so tried it at home. its only about a 3.5gb file. estimated download time was 6hrs!!!

Got to work, downloaded it in about 10 minutes! ( I started the download, went to get a snack and by the time I was back it was finished)

the perks of corporate internet!