Broadband speeds
Discussion
Assuming common or garden FTTC fibre or ADSL then the speed from the telephone exchange to your master socket will be identical with whichever provider you go with. All that infrastructure is owned and operated by BTOpenreach. ISP makes no difference.
You'll see variations at your computer potentially because different ISPs give you different routers that have different WiFi capabilities so if WiFi becomes the bottleneck then you'll see a difference. It's not really the ISP per se, it is the hardware they give you which you can do something about.
And finally, at the other end, from the telephone exchange, the speed may vary out to the wider internet dependent on how they route their backhaul and what peering arrangements they have. But that's all way too complicated to worry about and in my experience has little bearing on anything.
So short answer, yes in all likelihood no matter which ISP you use you'll see the same speeds 99% of the time.
You'll see variations at your computer potentially because different ISPs give you different routers that have different WiFi capabilities so if WiFi becomes the bottleneck then you'll see a difference. It's not really the ISP per se, it is the hardware they give you which you can do something about.
And finally, at the other end, from the telephone exchange, the speed may vary out to the wider internet dependent on how they route their backhaul and what peering arrangements they have. But that's all way too complicated to worry about and in my experience has little bearing on anything.
So short answer, yes in all likelihood no matter which ISP you use you'll see the same speeds 99% of the time.
Thanks BigTZ4M. Will order with BT then. If it comes to it I will replace the wireless router. I was looking at the Unifi equipment earlier..
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BigTZ4M said:
Assuming common or garden FTTC fibre or ADSL then the speed from the telephone exchange to your master socket will be identical with whichever provider you go with. All that infrastructure is owned and operated by BTOpenreach. ISP makes no difference.
You'll see variations at your computer potentially because different ISPs give you different routers that have different WiFi capabilities so if WiFi becomes the bottleneck then you'll see a difference. It's not really the ISP per se, it is the hardware they give you which you can do something about.
And finally, at the other end, from the telephone exchange, the speed may vary out to the wider internet dependent on how they route their backhaul and what peering arrangements they have. But that's all way too complicated to worry about and in my experience has little bearing on anything.
So short answer, yes in all likelihood no matter which ISP you use you'll see the same speeds 99% of the time.
You'll see variations at your computer potentially because different ISPs give you different routers that have different WiFi capabilities so if WiFi becomes the bottleneck then you'll see a difference. It's not really the ISP per se, it is the hardware they give you which you can do something about.
And finally, at the other end, from the telephone exchange, the speed may vary out to the wider internet dependent on how they route their backhaul and what peering arrangements they have. But that's all way too complicated to worry about and in my experience has little bearing on anything.
So short answer, yes in all likelihood no matter which ISP you use you'll see the same speeds 99% of the time.
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