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This is all you get in a mid-sized town in the Great British Midlands. Pathetic! :shadedshu:

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Plusnet Unlimited Fibre Extra VDSL2 package.

Nexfibre is currently building their XGS-PON infrastructure around here. Hopefully they'll greenlight orders before I'm forced to renew this contract. Nothing wrong with Plusnet per se, I just want a better connection and Openreach isn't offering it.

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Eh, expected slightly better, especially upload. It's a 20 bucks/month fiber now, but the cost more than doubled in the last 2 years, as it was 8.75 bucks/month for the longest time...

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Eh, expected slightly better, especially upload. It's a 20 bucks/month fiber now, but the cost more than doubled in the last 2 years, as it was 8.75 bucks/month for the longest time...

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Wow, UK pricing sucks so much. I'm paying £35/mo for 80/20 and it's not even full fibre.
 
Wow, UK pricing sucks so much. I'm paying £35/mo for 80/20 and it's not even full fibre.
I wouldn't mind the price if not for the speed. In my area, the highest available speed is 35/5. Absolutely shameful.
 
I wouldn't mind the price if not for the speed. In my area, the highest available speed is 35/5. Absolutely shameful.

I agree, however I wouldn't complain about gigabit for a tenner. :laugh:

Virgin has 1,130/104 for £41/mo (actual FTTP), with the option to have symmetrical for £47/mo. That simply doesn't compare to Openreach's VDSL2 80/20 for £35/mo.

Nexfibre has until late October to greenlight orders before I have to deal with overpriced ADSL again.
 
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I agree, however I wouldn't complain about gigabit for a tenner. :laugh:

Virgin has 1,130/104 for £41/mo (actual FTTP), with the option to have symmetrical for £47/mo. That simply doesn't compare to Openreach's VDSL2 80/20 for £35/mo.

Nexfibre has until late October to greenlight orders before I have to deal with overpriced ADSL again.
I wouldn't hold my horses for Openreach. My area has been marked as "future development panned" for about 2 years now.

Unfortunately, Virgin has no service here (they do on the other side of town), so 35/5 it is for me. At least I'm "only" paying 20 quid /mo for it. Oh well...
 
Does that include TV channels?
Nope. The missus and I don't watch TV, only Youtube and blu-ray films (besides those obtained from my "other" sources).

Edit: The best part is that it's actually a 65 Mbps contract, but my line only supports 35. There was an option for a 35 Mbps contract, but the price difference is nonexistent.
 
I wouldn't hold my horses for Openreach. My area has been marked as "future development panned" for about 2 years now.

Unfortunately, Virgin has no service here (they do on the other side of town), so 35/5 it is for me. At least I'm "only" paying 20 quid /mo for it. Oh well...

100% agree, my area has been down for a FTTP upgrade from Openreach for a number of years, but the best they've got is "by 2026." I figure they will soon get on with it once Nexfibre is available and the Openreach resellers are all wondering where their customers are going.

The customer service situation with Virgin is putting me off, but there's so much going on in my house that the VDSL2 really doesn't cut it. Unfortunately it will be a while before we see Nexfibre go wholesale, so I'm stuck with Virgin or Openreach. Potentially only Openreach if Virgin isn't available by October 20th.

There was an option for a 35 Mbps contract, but the price difference is nonexistent.

All by design to make you choose the top-tier option. EE is a bugger for this. 1 GB, 25 GB, 125 GB and unlimited all within £10 of each other.
 
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2x 500/250 FTTH links in load balance through OpenWRT.
I pay less than $20 for each, without data caps.

I have 2 links for redundancy since I work from home, but having gigabit as a side effect is pretty nice as well lol
 
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2x 500/250 FTTH links in load balance through OpenWRT.
I pay less than $20 for each, without data caps.

I have 2 links for redundancy since I work from home, but having gigabit as a side effect is pretty nice as well lol
sometimes i feel like i should get two lines because my office has hybrid (~3 days a week in office) plus i am in office for a few hours a day since i am the only one from my team in Asia :S
 
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Decided to test to a server across the Atlantic Ocean. Paying for 250/250. Europe has some fine IT infrastructure.
 
sometimes i feel like i should get two lines because my office has hybrid (~3 days a week in office) plus i am in office for a few hours a day since i am the only one from my team in Asia :S
If it's something that you can afford, and if you do have the equipment for it, I can really recommend doing so. I hated when I had to go to coffee shops or friends' house with only my laptop (instead of my 4k 42" display) due to internet issues.

I also got an UPS with a really large battery module so I can guarantee a really nice uptime.
 
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This is AT&T fiber to my home, with PFSense Firewall using IP Passthrough. My PC is connected to a LAN @10 Gig.
 

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Upgraded my internet again, and still only 200 up. Seems to be a Canadian thing.....
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Not much, but enough for daily use.


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This is all you get in a mid-sized town in the Great British Midlands. Pathetic! :shadedshu:

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We're in the same boat here. Have been waiting for fiber for a long time. We could get more bandwidth from one of the cable providers (we're on AT&T), but they're overpriced, and we seldom watch any television anyway. It's enough for streaming and general use, but really lacking for game downloads -- if it's more than 10Gb I usually set it up to run overnight.
 
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At Home, Virgin Media UK fibre. Does me for 20 odd quid a month.

For $20/month, I would be content with that.
I'm currently paying $70/month and the performance certainly doesn't scale with the cost difference.
 
Here in france with free you can have this for 50€ / month
of course you can"t have 6Gbps on all servers it's ideal conditions but wow I have "only" 1000/500 for 30€/month
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