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According to Ofcom, speeds of 24Mbps are currently available to 94 per cent of premises. Yet only 45 per cent have signed up, sticking with their poxy standard ADSL packages of around 11-12Mbps.
A survey of 3,000 customers by Which? suggests that the most common reason for not bothering to upgrade was because people felt happy with their current speeds.
So if people can't be arsed to upgrade from creaking ADSL services to the much-derided "superfast" fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) speeds, why on earth are they going to bother with the far more expensive full-fibre speeds?
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Do Brits Really Even Want Full Fibre?
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by Dr Spin on Friday August 09 2019, @04:20PM (2 children)
I live in the UK, and I assure you we have very little idea what the packages actually deliver. Sure they promote faster, shiner and with added zing, but they are ISPs so we know they are even less honest than our treasonous politicians.
The "boy who cried wolf" applies equally to advertising:
If you keep telling people its cheaper and twice as fast, and they keep discovering there are hidden charges, and its slower, then you will have trouble getting anyone to pay actual money for "bolt-ons".
"Up to" means "absolutely miles away from". I have "BT Professional Broadband" in central London and it is slower than wifi access over GSM in Nigeria (as tested with a Samsung Note 3 on Airtel).
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(Score: 2) by KritonK on Friday August 09 2019, @06:01PM (1 child)
So what are these "standard ADSL packages of around 11-12Mbps" to which UK subscribers are sticking? 24 Mbps connections with artificial limits? (According to my ISP, this is exactly what I have; I used to get 17 Mbps, but another ISP, who owns the lines to the DSLAM, started limiting bit rates, to support more customers, without expanding their infrastructure. The funny thing is that, although they did expand their infrastructure eventually, the limits remain.)
As for knowing the actual speed with which you are connected, it's as simple as logging in to your router with a browser. (Which may not be that simple for many people, if they are not given instructions by their ISP. It's usually at 192.168.1.1 though, with the login credentials written at the bottom of the router.)
(Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Saturday August 10 2019, @09:53AM
Before you can login to the router, you have to sign the contract - and by then you are stuffed.
You can also use an app on your mobile - I used the same one, on the same phone, here in the UK and in Nigeria. Sure "3" in the UK is fastest, but Airtel in Nigeria is faster OTA that
hard wired, landline, FTTC using BT. And using OpenWRT on a BT router (or a Draytek) is at least twice as fast an ten times more reliable than BT's routers with their own firmware.
Also, "they are all in it together" - all the ISPs use the same hardware to the exchange anyway (except Virgin) so you may have a choice of who you pay, but what you get - not so much.
With Virgin (which I am not), the problem is understanding what you will get, and what you have to pay for. The few people I know on Virgin pay a lot for things I don't want,
so I am not going to go with them.
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