Superfast Broadband

[Moulin Yarns]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38401244

According to the latest 'news' £18 million is to be invested in improving Broadband in rural areas. Superfast Broadband is defined as a minimum of 24Mbps, BT recently 'upgraded' us to (doubled our speed) 7Mbps!! I won't hold my breathe!!

[snooky]

I don't know what other providers are like but I can't say I'm impressed by BT. I have a lot of problems with signal strength on my PC and I'm in an urban area. It's only occasionally I can get a mobile signal in my house.

[Future17]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38401244

According to the latest 'news' £18 million is to be invested in improving Broadband in rural areas. Superfast Broadband is defined as a minimum of 24Mbps, BT recently 'upgraded' us to (doubled our speed) 7Mbps!! I won't hold my breathe!!

I live on Brunswick Road and our BT speed is meant to be "up to 16mbps", which is technically accurate as the average is 3mbps. The sport channels required a minimum of 5mbps to watch them so are sometimes unavailable. The last time an engineer came out he tried various things for half an hour and then said they couldn't do anything to improve it.

[brianmc]

Suddenly Virgins other service shortcomings don't seem so bad... I'm on 150Mbps.

[lord bunberry]

Suddenly Virgins other service shortcomings don't seem so bad... I'm on 150Mbps.
I've tried a few over the years, but been with virgin for ages now. It's by miles the best I've had.

[Scouse Hibee]

Superfast Virgin no problems.

[Moulin Yarns]

Superfast Virgin no problems.

Aye there is, if they are superfast, how are you meant to catch them?

[Lucius Apuleius]

I hit 50 with BT so no complaints regarding speed from me. Reliability is another story however.

[calumhibee1]

Aye there is, if they are superfast, how are you meant to catch them?

😂

[Geo_1875]

I hit 50 with BT so no complaints regarding speed from me. Reliability is another story however.

BT is superfast to the box at the end of your street. They then pass it through existing copper wiring to your house which slows it down a tad.

Virgin dig up your street and garden to get the good stuff to your router.

[Sir David Gray]

I get between 7-9 MBPS on a standard Sky connection.

Openreach don't do fibre in my area yet and my cabinet has had the same status for the last couple of years i.e. they are exploring solutions to make fibre available.

I am able to get Virgin in my area but my connection is generally good enough for what I need to do.

[lucky]

I've got Virgin, excellent speed and reliability but it's not cheap

[ronaldo7]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38401244

According to the latest 'news' £18 million is to be invested in improving Broadband in rural areas. Superfast Broadband is defined as a minimum of 24Mbps, BT recently 'upgraded' us to (doubled our speed) 7Mbps!! I won't hold my breathe!!

Why are we only getting £18 million from a £440 million investment?

Is this new money or a regurgitation from the Tories?

[GlesgaeHibby]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38401244

According to the latest 'news' £18 million is to be invested in improving Broadband in rural areas. Superfast Broadband is defined as a minimum of 24Mbps, BT recently 'upgraded' us to (doubled our speed) 7Mbps!! I won't hold my breathe!!

I'd love 7Mbps. Moved from Edinburgh where I had Virgin superfast to a new build in Midlothian last year where I'm currently averaging around 0.7Mbps. After a lot of pressure, the house developer agreed to fund Fibre to the Cabinet for us and 2 fibre cabinets were installed last week. If left to BT, we'd still be waiting. Hopefully in a month or two will have broadband speeds that allow me to do basic tasks such as streaming using Netflix again.

[McD]

I get between 7-9 MBPS on a standard Sky connection.

Openreach don't do fibre in my area yet and my cabinet has had the same status for the last couple of years i.e. they are exploring solutions to make fibre available.

I am able to get Virgin in my area but my connection is generally good enough for what I need to do.


I think that means they're not wanting to foot the bill for all the digging etc themselves, so are pushing the local authority to absorb some of the cost.

[Sir David Gray]

I think that means they're not wanting to foot the bill for all the digging etc themselves, so are pushing the local authority to absorb some of the cost.

Yep more than likely.

I used to work for Sky so I know exactly how Openreach operates.

I'm not expecting it any time soon.

[lord bunberry]

Aye there is, if they are superfast, how are you meant to catch them?
That depends if they're running away or running towards you dear boy :greengrin

[lord bunberry]

Is anyone else's virgin broadband not working?

[Scouse Hibee]

Is anyone else's virgin broadband not working?

Having trouble connecting to my house WIFI which is Virgin. My house is in Edinburgh and I am in Liverpool so that might just explain the problem :-)

[lord bunberry]

Having trouble connecting to my house WIFI which is Virgin. My house is in Edinburgh and I am in Liverpool so that might just explain the problem :-)
That would never have happened if we hadn't voted for brexit :greengrin

[ihibs7]

I'd love 7Mbps. Moved from Edinburgh where I had Virgin superfast to a new build in Midlothian last year where I'm currently averaging around 0.7Mbps. After a lot of pressure, the house developer agreed to fund Fibre to the Cabinet for us and 2 fibre cabinets were installed last week. If left to BT, we'd still be waiting. Hopefully in a month or two will have broadband speeds that allow me to do basic tasks such as streaming using Netflix again.

I feel your pain. Speeds in newtongrange were often 0.1mbps useless for anything and software updates took overnight and longer, couldn't stream radio. Since moving I'm on 38mbps with EE - fabulous Even with multiple users.


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[Colr]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38401244

According to the latest 'news' £18 million is to be invested in improving Broadband in rural areas. Superfast Broadband is defined as a minimum of 24Mbps, BT recently 'upgraded' us to (doubled our speed) 7Mbps!! I won't hold my breathe!!

Thought this might interest you.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37974267

[Moulin Yarns]

Thought this might interest you.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37974267

Well done to them. Looks like the best option in rural areas. BT have put fibre optic to the exchange but it is the same old wiring for the remainder.

Considering satellite broadband, i have a friend that works with oil companies to provide comms system and he uses it.

[Just Alf]

I'd love 7Mbps. Moved from Edinburgh where I had Virgin superfast to a new build in Midlothian last year where I'm currently averaging around 0.7Mbps. After a lot of pressure, the house developer agreed to fund Fibre to the Cabinet for us and 2 fibre cabinets were installed last week. If left to BT, we'd still be waiting. Hopefully in a month or two will have broadband speeds that allow me to do basic tasks such as streaming using Netflix again.

Just go to Virgin then?.... It's more expensive I guess but if it's what you need?

[Danderhall Hibs]

Just go to Virgin then?.... It's more expensive I guess but if it's what you need?

Virgin isn't available in some parts of Midlothian.

[Just Alf]

Virgin isn't available in some parts of Midlothian.

I know, I was being face.... facetiou...... Err.. Smart!

Folks poke at BT for not supplying fast broadband but never do the same to Virgin. For what it's worth, I live in West side of Edinburgh (near Gorgie :rolleyes: ) and Virgin "forgot" to cable our street, everywhere round about can get it but us! When questioned its apparently too expensive to come back to do our street in isolation. :grr:

One neighbour has a cunning plan mind, he's agreed with his neighbour over the back to allow him in the spring to dig a cable along his flower bed which ends up close to the box in the next street, once it's in he's gonna phone Virgin up.... I await with baited breath.

[sleeping giant]

I'm with sky at should be on 40 massive buckets a second :-)
I done a speed checker and was only getting 9 so called them up.
It turns out that your wifi is not a true representation as that in itself has to connect to the router.
The guy asked me to hardwire to the router and bingo 40 massive buckets a second.

He asked how many devices we had connected to it and to my horror , we had 14 devices.

What on earth did we do before the Internet ?

[calumhibee1]

I'm with sky at should be on 40 massive buckets a second :-)
I done a speed checker and was only getting 9 so called them up.
It turns out that your wifi is not a true representation as that in itself has to connect to the router.
The guy asked me to hardwire to the router and bingo 40 massive buckets a second.

He asked how many devices we had connected to it and to my horror , we had 14 devices.

What on earth did we do before the Internet ?

I've no idea what I'm supposed to get with Sky but when I've been downloading things recently it's been showing up as 1.5MBPS or so... really slow!!

[Smartie]

I'v just read back through this thread and find it quite funny to see the mention of copper wire and fibre optic.

I remember studying physics at standard grade and I'm sure we were asked in an exam to list the advantages of fibre optic over copper wire. I'm sure that at that time copper wire was starting to get replaced by fibre optic wire.

I sat standard grade physics in May 1993 and studied it for the 2 years leading up to that.

What has taken us so long?

[Sir David Gray]

I'm with sky at should be on 40 massive buckets a second :-)
I done a speed checker and was only getting 9 so called them up.
It turns out that your wifi is not a true representation as that in itself has to connect to the router.
The guy asked me to hardwire to the router and bingo 40 massive buckets a second.

He asked how many devices we had connected to it and to my horror , we had 14 devices.

What on earth did we do before the Internet ?

That's true by the way. Your ISP can only guarantee you a minimum line speed when there's a hardwired connection between the router and a single device. They can't gurantee a wi-fi connection speed as there's far too many variables involved. If your line speed is 40 mbps that will be for one single device hardwired to your router. Any device connected wirelessly will be significantly lower than that.

[cabbageandribs1875]

mines finally went 'live' this morning, done a few speed tests and perfectly happy with 37mb now(talktalk stated 38mb max), anyone that gets a message that BT are looking at other ways to supply you it could be that you're on what's called an 'exchange only' (EO) line which I was https://www.scotlandsuperfast.com/where-when/how-we-are-building-the-fibre-network/exchange-only-lines/

[McD]

I'm with sky at should be on 40 massive buckets a second :-)
I done a speed checker and was only getting 9 so called them up.
It turns out that your wifi is not a true representation as that in itself has to connect to the router.
The guy asked me to hardwire to the router and bingo 40 massive buckets a second.

He asked how many devices we had connected to it and to my horror , we had 14 devices.

What on earth did we do before the Internet ?


14 isn't all that much these days, between phones, tablets, laptops, tv boxes, smart tv's, games consoles, and a variety of others.

[stoneyburn hibs]

A wee bit late with this as the offer runs out tonight.

My contract is about to end with BT so I was looking last night. Got rid of my landline (never used) and signed up with Virgin on a fibre broadband deal at £19 per month for a year. It was reduced from £28 per month.

[GreenLake]

Just measured 210mbps download speed on https://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ which is a bit less than the 300mbps max.

[Colr]

Just measured 210mbps download speed on https://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ which is a bit less than the 300mbps max.

Central London business district - 9.4mbps.

[lord bunberry]

Central London business district - 9.4mbps.

I did mine last night and I was 72mbps

[Colr]

I did mine last night and I was 72mbps

I get 103mbps at home.

[HappyAsHellas]

Just got 67.9 at home with daughter on her phone and android box on the go. All with virgin, although when I tried the American link above it was only 7Mb from L.A.?