Fibre Optic Broadband

I was wondering had anybody here taken the fibre optic broadband and if it delivers the speeds you were expecting?

We are due to get BT Infinity here shortly and wasn't sure about taking it up.

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We are on Virgin media cable and the service is excellent. I don't know if it reaches the projected speed as I've never checked it, but it's definitely faster than me....

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I have BT Home Hub - is that the same thing? My broadband service is good and I've never had any problems.

Gwyn

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Im with Virgin ,and we pay for broadband up to 120,we did a check on the speed this morning and the first reading was 90, second reading was 70,with my monthly bill came the news of it going to 150 by the end of May .
WE are very satisfied with the speed but we are paying for the fastest so its not cheap.

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We have the BT it's fine, speeds are near what they promise and it rarely lets us down.

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I'm with Virgin Media and pay for a a 60 Mbps connection. It's usually a bit more than that. Here's the current speedtest.net result:

When the service is working, it is very good. Occasionally though, it drops out completely. A phone call for help usually gets results and the service is returned fairly quickly. I think this is something that only happens in our area. I have a relative who lives a few miles away. He is also with Virgin Media and never gets any trouble.

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I CAN get fibre optic now with BT, I believe though this wasn't possible not long ago what with this being a multi occupancy building. But though I would love to upgrade, I won't while I am still thinking of moving out.

With Orange and pay just £12.26 a month. I'm still of the opinion that if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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We have moved home in the local area a fair bit. I always considered what the TV signal was like when looking at a prospective property. The signal is a bit marginal around here. It might seem a minor point but most of us spend a lot of leaisure time watching TV, so I placed a bit of importance on it ..and because I was a TV/video recorder engineer and knew where the signal wasn't so good. People used to get awfully upset with snowy TV pictures and I didn't want to be the same.

Just thinking that, if moving now, I'd have to take two things into account. The strength of the terresrial TV signal and the Internet connection speed available in the road. We spend quite a bit of time at both, so a fair amount of importance would still be put on that.

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I have the NBNCo Fibre connection since February and also have my telephone via VOIP on the same service

Currently I am paying for the 25/5Mbs and that is pretty much the speed I get all the time. From the beginning of next month it is going to 100/40Mbps for an extra $8 a month


What I like is that even for the faster service I am still paying less than I used to pay for ADSL plus the phone line rental.

With the VOIP I have 60 calls untimed to anywhere in Australia included in the $5 I pay per month. No one calling would know it was anything other than a normal phone line.


These pictures were taken before the copper phone line was disconnected now only the blue wire remains.

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Recently upgraded to Sky's fibre - meant to get 40Mbs but actually getting 18Mbs - which isn't far off what our normal broadband was. I am going to call them and might consider going back to normal. Upload speeds have improved though..