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Sasquartch, Thank you for the reply.It seems you are implicitly agreeing with me; that the poor service is part of a cunning BT plan to get people to upgrade and pay for it.
I personally am holding out for 5G being rolled out nationwide from 2020 which will trump all of the Openreach offerings overnight.
Line of sight tests (using the open signal app on my phone) to the brookmans park antennae on the great north road (which i am assuming is the mast i connect to) are getting me over 100 down and 30 up!
Can anyone tell me, is the quality of the FTTP worth taking BT to task, getting them to update their records and if they are capable of doing that, getting it installed?
I have FTTP but just opted for Infinity-2 which gives me a measured 76M down and 20M up. This has proved more than adequate, iplayer works fine whilst the kids are streaming stuff on their phones etc.Remember most devices that are wireless will be unable to get speeds of even 50M down in practice and wired devices, unless gigabit Ethernet, will connect at a maximum of 100M anyway so unless you have lots of concurrent devices doing large downloads 300M is probably overkill (and the upload speed is still only 30M as mentioned previously)I think I pay around £45/month all in which includes phone and free evening / weekend calls
As you might of guessed, i do not use the homehub that bt supplied. That lives in a draw gathering dust.
Quote from: jonS on November 24, 2017, 12:25:26 pmAs you might of guessed, i do not use the homehub that bt supplied. That lives in a draw gathering dust.What do you use instead, jonS?
i use ubiquiti wifi access points here (UAP AC). Its good reliable gear with a good even spread on 5g ac. It works well here on the fixed bt fttc line and the 4g feed we use OTA from EE too. So much better than high street alternatives. Ta BP