Vodafone Fibre? Especially Gigafast? Anyone using?
Discussion
It's just being laid in our area, with much local disruption and mess.
Whilst I like the idea of 900Mb/s; given that;
a) it isn't really "Giga", is it now? is it 1Gb/s+? No.
b) I've got 78Mb/s, as has everyone else locally, so can happily stream 4K, as well as other stuff at same time
c) Vodafone offer no media / tv packages
d) BT TV won't work on it
e) I'd need to subscribe to Sky again :-(
f) the infrastructure is tied to Vodafone only & I dislike Vodafone
g) it's £48/month
..what's the point?
Other than claiming that they've improved "access" to super-giga-mega-fast broadband, wouldn't this money have been better spent improving access for those still on intermittent dial-up speeds?
Whilst I like the idea of 900Mb/s; given that;
a) it isn't really "Giga", is it now? is it 1Gb/s+? No.
b) I've got 78Mb/s, as has everyone else locally, so can happily stream 4K, as well as other stuff at same time
c) Vodafone offer no media / tv packages
d) BT TV won't work on it
e) I'd need to subscribe to Sky again :-(
f) the infrastructure is tied to Vodafone only & I dislike Vodafone
g) it's £48/month
..what's the point?
Other than claiming that they've improved "access" to super-giga-mega-fast broadband, wouldn't this money have been better spent improving access for those still on intermittent dial-up speeds?
alorotom said:
With the march of 5G it’s even more pointless and unnecessarily expensive!
Depends on your use case.It you are pulling down 100s gb a month then 5g will be more expensive vs good fibre. If you are watching a few movies a month and have 5g coverage (good luck with that in the next 12 months) then yes, probably cheaper.
vaud said:
Depends on your use case.
It you are pulling down 100s gb a month then 5g will be more expensive vs good fibre. If you are watching a few movies a month and have 5g coverage (good luck with that in the next 12 months) then yes, probably cheaper.
^This. My hub has current uptime of 28 days, during which I have 425GB of "download".It you are pulling down 100s gb a month then 5g will be more expensive vs good fibre. If you are watching a few movies a month and have 5g coverage (good luck with that in the next 12 months) then yes, probably cheaper.
alorotom said:
With the march of 5G it’s even more pointless and unnecessarily expensive!
Unless you live in a major city center you will not be getting 5G any time soon. And unless you are sitting on your front door step or a balcony with line of sight to the antenna, you will not be getting anything near advertised speeds.JonChalk said:
It's just being laid in our area, with much local disruption and mess.
Whilst I like the idea of 900Mb/s; given that;
a) it isn't really "Giga", is it now? is it 1Gb/s+? No.
b) I've got 78Mb/s, as has everyone else locally, so can happily stream 4K, as well as other stuff at same time
c) Vodafone offer no media / tv packages
d) BT TV won't work on it
e) I'd need to subscribe to Sky again :-(
f) the infrastructure is tied to Vodafone only & I dislike Vodafone
g) it's £48/month
..what's the point?
Other than claiming that they've improved "access" to super-giga-mega-fast broadband, wouldn't this money have been better spent improving access for those still on intermittent dial-up speeds?
I've been wondering the same as my street is due to be done soon. Why they're doing areas that already have fibre to the property is beyond me!Whilst I like the idea of 900Mb/s; given that;
a) it isn't really "Giga", is it now? is it 1Gb/s+? No.
b) I've got 78Mb/s, as has everyone else locally, so can happily stream 4K, as well as other stuff at same time
c) Vodafone offer no media / tv packages
d) BT TV won't work on it
e) I'd need to subscribe to Sky again :-(
f) the infrastructure is tied to Vodafone only & I dislike Vodafone
g) it's £48/month
..what's the point?
Other than claiming that they've improved "access" to super-giga-mega-fast broadband, wouldn't this money have been better spent improving access for those still on intermittent dial-up speeds?
blank said:
I've been wondering the same as my street is due to be done soon. Why they're doing areas that already have fibre to the property is beyond me!
Daft! It's like electricity companies running their own sets of cables to your house.If there was a proper joined-up strategy, the infrastructure installers / suppliers would be independent, then the ISPs could compete to supply FTTH over the same cable.
I've had it a while now - been very happy with it. I could only get 10Mbit/sec on DSL ( on a good day with a following wind ) where I live - cost wise its been neutral for me as I WFH, so claim it back as my office line. Reliability wise there has been a couple of outtages - but I still have my DSL to fall back to.
It is going in down my road as we speak. I can't wait to get away from Virgin. I'm on one of the higher packages but the reliability has become noticeably worse in the last couple of years and the traditional £3 rises have added up. My work is increasingly reliant on uploads nowadays so a symmetrical 500 will be ideal for me.
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