Moving to new house - internet issues

[Felicity28]

Hey,

Possibly moving to a large village but just looking at internet and it may be an issue.

I've been with Virgin Media super fast fibre for years where I am and it's brilliant. I'm a heavy user, stream a lot and have in the past run a plex server within the house.

VM is not available where I may be moving to. All other providers - BT, Sky, Zen, Plusnet only offer Standard Broadband. Mostly around 8-16mbps.

We rarely watch TV these days - usually Netflix, YouTube, Amazon and sometimes iPlayer or catch-up. I'm concerned that with this slower internet we'll be faced with waiting several minutes just to start watching something.

Any thoughts?
Thanks

[Felicity28]

Troubleatmill said:

You need to read this thread.
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Thanks - even Three is not available so can't even use a 4G router and SIM :-(

[Felicity28]

Just checked Vodafone and they say:

We estimate your broadband service will deliver download speeds ranging between 27.4 Mbps - 41.4 Mbps. Openreach confirms a minimum download speed of 22.4 Mbps.

[Felicity28]

Alucidnation said:

Surely, considering your internet usage, a reliable and fast connection would have been somewhere near the top of your 'must haves' list?

All of our holiday homes where purchased with this, but if we found somewhere we just had to have and speeds were less than 100, i investigated and funded a fibre connection.

Yes, it is a priority, but amongst everything else involved in a house, it's not the first thing I check.

Within about 10 different houses we've seen, speaking to brokers, selling our home, looking at stamp duty deadlines, etc. searching Virgin Media connectivity was not something I thought to do immediately.

Apologies for getting the wrong area of the forum - feel free to move

[Felicity28]

Just tried Openreach - website said;

We're sorry, our fibre products aren't available for you yet.

However, we are starting to roll out our Superfast Fibre product in your area, giving you speeds of up to 80Mbps - provide your contact details and we'll keep you up to date with progress and what this means for your address and let you know if our ultra-fast, ultra-reliable Full Fibre, with speeds of up to 1Gbps is planning to come to your area.

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No idea if that's just a standard message

[Felicity28]

With Sky, it says I can only get this:



Checking Plusnet - it's pretty much the same

[Felicity28]

Although Vodafone say I can get up to 63Mbps average download speed. The 4G mast is apparently very close by.



I checked the 4G coverage using Ofcom website:

[Felicity28]

Funnily enough, I am here now and doing just that. I have my phone with Vodaphone 4G, tethered to my laptop.

DOWNLOAD: 36.09Mbps
UPLOAD: 26.34Mbps

It's a rainy, overcast, windy day

Edited by Felicity28 on Tuesday 27th October 12:22

[Felicity28]

bungz said:

Your local cab only supports adsl2 by the looks of it which isn't brilliant but if its towards the higher end of the figure it shouldn't limit you too much.

Gaming is more latency than through put so wouldn't worry with that, streaming 4K stuff, certainly multiple streams would be unlikely but boggo HD stuff should be fine.

Correction - download speed is actually around 36Mbps - seems fairly good to me

[Felicity28]

bungz said:

That's fine if you are happy with a 4G set up, would get round the limited speeds of the local BT cab.

Strange as I just got home and on my VM Fibre, it is actually slightly slower - 35.83 rather than 36.09 on 4G.

Tbh I don't care what type of connection it is as long as it's reliable and allows streaming. I'd like to set my Plex server back up again (internal use only).