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Post by markgrant on Jul 29, 2016 18:09:52 GMT
Real Fibre to the premises is perfect and its modern technology  I'm intruiged as to why anyone should want 300 Mbps, when (see my note above) I get everything I want from a tenth of that ! (OK maybe in an office environment where you have loads of PC's etc running at the same time) I don't think anyone needs 300 Mbps, for me the lowest cost and slowest business package available was 250/ 125 and it connects a bit faster at about 350/175 with 1ms ping. The business sales at Kcom did offer me 1 gig down / 500 up for a huge monthly fee but I don't need it. 100/100 would have been perfect but for service providers to justify the extra costs the speed has to be fast doesn't it One bonus is that backups to Backblaze are nice and fast, uploads at about 44Mbps to Backblaze while watching youtube and spotify playing etc  |
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Post by lpcollier on Jul 30, 2016 16:41:25 GMT
I have BT Infinity FTTC at home, and I also look after a network for a charity at another location with the BT Business equivalent. My observations are: 1. The BT routers - all of them - are pretty useless. The later home hub offerings are a bit better for WiFi speed, but not for the VDSL broadband to the fibre cabinet. I've found the original Huawei HG612 Modem (which usually matches the kit in the cabinet) to be far more reliable and give better sync speeds than any of the integrated devices. 2. Most home WiFi AP/routers including the ISP supplied ones are also not that great. Generally they're not designed to connect to more than a handful of devices at a time, and regardless of broadband speed will become unreliable on the WiFi side if you have more than 10 clients. In a family of four, with tablets/laptops/smartphones plus TV/HiFi and other media devices, you can easily get to 15 or 20 devices. There are a number of more expensive routers on the market from Draytek, Netgear and others. Personally I use Mikrotik Router board access points and routers. They used to be very difficult to configure, but there's now a web based configuration screen that's no more difficult than other more advanced home devices. Their hAP ac Lite is amazing value for a dual band router, and will blow away any ISP-supplied device. I use two of the full-blown hAP ac access points, they're more expensive but have gigabit switching. I also use a separate router with a detailed firewall script that prioritises streaming media and VOIP traffic and rate-limits big HTTP downloads (e.g. Windows Update..!). |
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Post by markgrant on Aug 1, 2016 12:39:48 GMT
Today I have 3.47 Down, .84 up and 19ms ping This is a good day I would say you have a wiring fault, that is slower than ADSL. |
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 1, 2016 16:41:05 GMT
Better than it used to be.
I need to crawl into narrow loft space to see where the cable comes in and trace it
BT engineer said he wasn't allowed to go in there as no boarding on the last visit.
He was a big lad too.
Seemed happy to work on it if he knows where the cable goes
I'll be ok if I don't get cramp
Anyone have a chimney sweep boy I can borrow ?
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Post by liffy99 on Aug 28, 2016 16:24:20 GMT
Fibre to cabinet for us. Mac cabled to master socket and get a routine 70mb (although it does'nt seem much faster than our old 4mb other than downloads). 100m from cabinet. TP Link router.
However, wi fi around the house drops dramatically. Best we 've had on iPads is 20mb upstairs but never more than 12mb downstairs (router is upstairs). PS4 is often only 1-2mb ! So I've cabled that in with a mains plug delivered signal.
curious thing though is that on the wirelessly connected devices, upload speed is usually greater than download e.g 8 / 11mb.
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Post by zippy on Aug 28, 2016 17:59:44 GMT
Today I have 3.47 Down, .84 up and 19ms ping This is a good day I would say you have a wiring fault, that is slower than ADSL. Not necessarily - that is about the same speed as I was getting on ADSL before that glorious day when OpenReach installed the FTC. Mainly because I was at pretty much the maximum distance from the exchange. |
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Post by Slinger on Aug 28, 2016 23:08:27 GMT
Here's my BT Infinity result f.w.i.w.  |
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 29, 2016 10:28:43 GMT
I would say you have a wiring fault, that is slower than ADSL. Not necessarily - that is about the same speed as I was getting on ADSL before that glorious day when OpenReach installed the FTC. Mainly because I was at pretty much the maximum distance from the exchange. This is FTC .... |
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Post by MartinT on Aug 29, 2016 10:55:45 GMT
Here's mine (FTTC BT Infinity). I doubt I shall ever see such speeds again when I move.  |
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Post by zippy on Aug 29, 2016 11:06:20 GMT
Not necessarily - that is about the same speed as I was getting on ADSL before that glorious day when OpenReach installed the FTC. Mainly because I was at pretty much the maximum distance from the exchange. This is FTC .... OOPS - Missed that rather salient point ! |
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Post by speedysteve on Aug 30, 2016 9:45:00 GMT
We had 40meg download and 1.6 up in the old place in Bisley, having gone for the Fibre option.
This was with TalkTalk but the router they supplied back then was poor with WiFi and stability. Never saw those speeds on Wifi and even streaming video would drop to low res from time to time / freeze etc.
After complaining a lot and getting to speak to a supervisor / manager they sent me a new Huawei router which was much better but still not perfect.
We moved to a rural place but on the outskirts of a village that has been upgraded to fibre.
Being closer to the cabinet has helped.
I went for EE after getting their 4G / WiFi solution to tide us over while the physical line was connected etc (new build...).
EE did us proud haha, connected us up 2 months ahead of our neighbours who went with BT?!
I went for the 40M package.
We get 38-40M download on lan and 38 on WiFi.
Upload is 8-10... Much better than old place.
The EE router is good.
TalkTalk did not want the Hauwei router back.
The new place is much wider so one router does not reach to the music loft or garages.
Luckily the developer had put Lan cables into the music loft (above the garages). So with a bit of fiddling I was able to link the routers in slave / master so we get seamless WiFi over the whole place and as neighbours are so far away there's very little WiFi contention so I can get a signal halfway down our pretty large garden too.
Even have Lan in the music loft if I want. Also lan in the lounge too.
Both routers do 2.4GHz and 5GHz although not all our devices do 5GHz.
Better spec laptops and kindles do.
This may spread the spectrum load some, I don't know.
Linking took some time to get right, like most things, simple when you know how but before we got all the settings right we got some strange results, drop outs after a while etc.
As for technology, it's essential.
From crude stone axe, to lime mortar to the plough, wheel, precision screw, metallurgy, aerodynamics, plastics, electronics etc etc.
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Post by MartinT on Oct 25, 2016 17:08:42 GMT
What a comedown from the post above. The cost of moving to the countryside   |
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Post by Slinger on Oct 25, 2016 18:51:43 GMT
Bloody Hell Martin, you said you were moving to the countryside, not the Third World.
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Post by pre65 on Oct 25, 2016 19:11:36 GMT
My village is rural, and I get about the same as Matins new home.
It's a lot better than dial up. 
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Post by MartinT on Oct 25, 2016 19:57:59 GMT
Bloody Hell Martin, you said you were moving to the countryside, not the Third World. Make me feel better, why don't you!  |
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Post by Slinger on Oct 25, 2016 21:18:06 GMT
Bloody Hell Martin, you said you were moving to the countryside, not the Third World. Make me feel better, why don't you! You're in the countryside. If you want to feel better just look out of the window, or listen to the traffic gong past your front door.  |
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Post by mikeyb on Oct 26, 2016 8:52:27 GMT
What a comedown from the post above. The cost of moving to the countryside Looks like your closer to the London server it pinged than the exchange your on :eek: but unless you're downloading huge files 5mb is useable, my dad uses around 6mb and streams video and audio no problem. |
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 26, 2016 17:48:31 GMT
Nice house - shame about the broadband Just like us |
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Post by MartinT on Oct 26, 2016 18:20:17 GMT
Indeed, I've joined the 'hard done by' club! Never mind, it'll do.
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 26, 2016 19:47:30 GMT
Helps being philosophical |
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