Internet connections: Mb/s; Gigabytes; 4g and 5g, oh my.

[Electric_Andy]

Following this thread, mostly because the only broadband provider in this area is Virgins. They are terrible. At the end of each contract they bump up the price as a punishment for staying with them. Last year it went from £30/month to £74 (for up to 500mb/sec) so we had to haggle like mad and eventually ended up with up to 350MB/sec for £49/month. I'm hoping next June we might be able to get a SIM-based deal that uses 5g, if it's fast enough.

 

[icowden]

I checked this before buying the Hotspot. I have a good 4G connection in the village and a 5G connection if I stand on a specific bench on the top of the hill just outside, facing east, when the moon is waning.

My in-laws live in a similar sort of location. 5g if you are outside and the wind is blowing in the right direction ;-)

 

[icowden]

Following this thread, mostly because the only broadband provider in this area is Virgins.

Presumably the only fibre broadband provider?

 

[Electric_Andy]

Presumably the only fibre broadband provider?

Yes that's what I meant. We can get other providers but it's not full fibre, and most of them are around 24-39mb/sec max

 

[Gwylan]

Ah!

Not all SIMs will work in routers. (eg: Smarty will, Talkmobile won't.)

That might explain a problem with one SIM based router

 

[si_c]

Yes that's what I meant. We can get other providers but it's not full fibre, and most of them are around 24-39mb/sec max

That will change soon enough, BT are rolling off out full fibre everywhere, it's just a matter of time.

If you register interest then it might help speed up your area.

 

[si_c]

That will change soon enough, BT are rolling off out full fibre everywhere, it's just a matter of time.

If you register interest then it might help speed up your area.

There's a map here.

https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/where-when-building-ultrafast-full-fibre-broadband

 

[icowden]

That will change soon enough, BT are rolling off out full fibre everywhere, it's just a matter of time.

And cost. For example where my mum lives they have fibre to the cabinet, but to get the fibre from the cabinet to the house would require about half a mile of fibre to be run across telegraph poles. In the countryside, things are a lot further apart.

 

[presta]

Presumably the only fibre broadband provider?

If there's one fibre provider then they're all fibre providers, Openreach has had a stop-sell policy in place for over a year now, where FTTP's available there'll be no new installations or repairs to copper lines, and no switching them to new providers.

https://www.simpletelecoms.co.uk/Openreach-withdrawing-copper-based-telephone-services
https://www.openreach.co.uk/cpportal/products/the-all-ip-programme/stopsell-updates/
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The whole PSTN is being switched off on 1.1.27.

 

[classic33]

There's a map here.

https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/where-when-building-ultrafast-full-fibre-broadband

Less than 80 yards from one of their boxes, but fibre to the house, isn't available with OpenReach.

 

[Electric_Andy]

We are with virgins, and have full fibre. I did ring sky and BT but was told they don't supply to my address. So presumably other providers can't piggy back off virgins cables?

 

[icowden]

We are with virgins, and have full fibre. I did ring sky and BT but was told they don't supply to my address. So presumably other providers can't piggy back off virgins cables?

Nope. Virgin run their own fibre network and do not work with Openreach. They sometimes lease space in Openreach boxes but that's about it.

 

[Andy in Germany]

One month in and I just checked: I've used 57GB of the 100 GB available on the Hotspot, so I can relax about that, as I was in my flat more than usual because I had a holiday.

Of the 30GB available on the phone I used 1GB, so the phone contract has been changed to a much cheaper one giving me 5GB.