Gigaclear broadband
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Anyone here using Gigaclear broadband?
I live in a rural village, and can currently only get traditional 'up to' 8mbps broadband. Gigaclear are currently installing their pure fiber service into the village, and I'm tempted. But it's quite expensive at nearly £40 per month for 50/50 mbps.
I'm worried that if I sign up, BT will enable the village for fast broadband (albeit using the traditional copper to the premises), but costing much less than Gigaclear.
Any experience?
I live in a rural village, and can currently only get traditional 'up to' 8mbps broadband. Gigaclear are currently installing their pure fiber service into the village, and I'm tempted. But it's quite expensive at nearly £40 per month for 50/50 mbps.
I'm worried that if I sign up, BT will enable the village for fast broadband (albeit using the traditional copper to the premises), but costing much less than Gigaclear.
Any experience?
Fftp. More chance of them enabling your line to 300mbs than bt putting in fftc which could be as low as 38mbs. For 76mbs bt expect you to get 54. Anything lower is deemed a fault.
Btw infinity 2 is £30pm so its not that much more. I'd go for it with the expectation it gets quicker quicker than bt fibre will.
Btw infinity 2 is £30pm so its not that much more. I'd go for it with the expectation it gets quicker quicker than bt fibre will.
deckster said:
If that means that you can get rid of the BT line altogether (don't forget that anything they quote is always 'plus line rental') then as said it sounds like an excellent deal. If you need to retain the BT line for other purposes, then perhaps it's less compelling.
hmm - good point. I hadn't thought of that.Mobile phone reception is pretty bad - I guess we could get an IP phone maybe?
Dr Doofenshmirtz said:
deckster said:
If that means that you can get rid of the BT line altogether (don't forget that anything they quote is always 'plus line rental') then as said it sounds like an excellent deal. If you need to retain the BT line for other purposes, then perhaps it's less compelling.
hmm - good point. I hadn't thought of that.Mobile phone reception is pretty bad - I guess we could get an IP phone maybe?
Looks surprisingly good value, quite like the fact they offer the ability to boost your internet to full speed for 24 hours, as realistically no household needs more than true 50/50 unless unusually large/high usage (2 or more 4k streams at once etc), but for big downloads, it could be worth the £5.
deckster said:
If that means that you can get rid of the BT line altogether (don't forget that anything they quote is always 'plus line rental') then as said it sounds like an excellent deal. If you need to retain the BT line for other purposes, then perhaps it's less compelling.
£40 is including line rental. Hmm, I'd be very wary of the "up to 50Mbps" claims as that could quite easily mean dial-up speeds and the wording of the deal means if that turns out to be the case you can't do f
k all about it. Remember this is going to be delivered over the same wet string belonging to BT (if I'm understanding it correctly) that BT themselves have told you is no good for broadband at any kind of usable speed so I think expecting anywhere near 50Mbps is going to be very much pie in the sky.Edited by All that jazz on Wednesday 27th January 18:23
All that jazz said:
deckster said:
If that means that you can get rid of the BT line altogether (don't forget that anything they quote is always 'plus line rental') then as said it sounds like an excellent deal. If you need to retain the BT line for other purposes, then perhaps it's less compelling.
£40 is including line rental. Hmm, I'd be very wary of the "up to 50Mbps" claims as that could quite easily mean dial-up speeds and the wording of the deal means if that turns out to be the case you can't do fk all about it. Remember this is going to be delivered over the same wet string belonging to BT (if I'm understanding it correctly) that BT themselves have told you is no good for broadband at any kind of usable speed so I think expecting anywhere near 50Mbps is going to be very much pie in the sky.Edited by All that jazz on Wednesday 27th January 18:23
megaphone said:
All that jazz said:
deckster said:
If that means that you can get rid of the BT line altogether (don't forget that anything they quote is always 'plus line rental') then as said it sounds like an excellent deal. If you need to retain the BT line for other purposes, then perhaps it's less compelling.
£40 is including line rental. Hmm, I'd be very wary of the "up to 50Mbps" claims as that could quite easily mean dial-up speeds and the wording of the deal means if that turns out to be the case you can't do fk all about it. Remember this is going to be delivered over the same wet string belonging to BT (if I'm understanding it correctly) that BT themselves have told you is no good for broadband at any kind of usable speed so I think expecting anywhere near 50Mbps is going to be very much pie in the sky.Edited by All that jazz on Wednesday 27th January 18:23
All that jazz said:
£40 is including line rental. Hmm, I'd be very wary of the "up to 50Mbps" claims as that could quite easily mean dial-up speeds and the wording of the deal means if that turns out to be the case you can't do fk all about it. Remember this is going to be delivered over the same wet string belonging to BT (if I'm understanding it correctly) that BT themselves have told you is no good for broadband at any kind of usable speed so I think expecting anywhere near 50Mbps is going to be very much pie in the sky.
If I'm not mistaken, Gigaclear run their own fibre.k all about it. Remember this is going to be delivered over the same wet string belonging to BT (if I'm understanding it correctly) that BT themselves have told you is no good for broadband at any kind of usable speed so I think expecting anywhere near 50Mbps is going to be very much pie in the sky.Edited by All that jazz on Wednesday 27th January 18:23
A colleague lives out in the sticks, and he's also getting this, and it would appear that Gigaclear have been granted permission to dig through farmer's land to lay their fibre.
So I suspect their claims of 50/50 are quite achievable, given that my colleague says (and the Gigclear website states) that 1gbs is available on the fibre.
TonyRPH said:
All that jazz said:
£40 is including line rental. Hmm, I'd be very wary of the "up to 50Mbps" claims as that could quite easily mean dial-up speeds and the wording of the deal means if that turns out to be the case you can't do fk all about it. Remember this is going to be delivered over the same wet string belonging to BT (if I'm understanding it correctly) that BT themselves have told you is no good for broadband at any kind of usable speed so I think expecting anywhere near 50Mbps is going to be very much pie in the sky.
If I'm not mistaken, Gigaclear run their own fibre.k all about it. Remember this is going to be delivered over the same wet string belonging to BT (if I'm understanding it correctly) that BT themselves have told you is no good for broadband at any kind of usable speed so I think expecting anywhere near 50Mbps is going to be very much pie in the sky.Edited by All that jazz on Wednesday 27th January 18:23
A colleague lives out in the sticks, and he's also getting this, and it would appear that Gigaclear have been granted permission to dig through farmer's land to lay their fibre.
So I suspect their claims of 50/50 are quite achievable, given that my colleague says (and the Gigclear website states) that 1gbs is available on the fibre.
Digitalize said:
I think they're being subsidised by the government, to help get everyone access to the Internet. The reason they only offer access to rural villages.
Which makes it worth being careful. If it's anything like the South Yorkshire Digital Region was (gov funded FTTC), they will do an absolutely useless job of advertising and building a customer base. The public funding will eventually disappear and they'll fall flat on their face with too few customers to pay the bills. I was lucky, I was only without internet access for six weeks or so.Worth going for, but keep an eye on places like ISP Review so you know if trouble is coming.
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