How good is Fibre?
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How good is Fibre?
28-07-2011 1:40 PM
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The house we're moving to in a month has a lousy ADSL line speed (1.5Mbit) - but that's Cheltenham for you. We don't have fibre yet but its pencilled in for some time next year (yeah right, I'll believe that when I see it). Obivously Fibre would seem to be the sensible way for us to move but the posts in here don't seem to be too encouraging - with people reporting flaky speeds, apparently incompetent/ignorant BT installation engineers and other such problems.
Please tell me that it really is a good sensible replacement for copper ADSL.
Re: How good is Fibre?
28-07-2011 3:38 PM
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My experience has been that the installation was actually very smooth - in fact better than expected. I get speeds about 2.5x what I had on ADSL (though I had hoped for 3x), and 1.5x the monthly allowance, for almost the same price.
From memory Virgin cable has a presence in Chelt, and there may be some LLU operators too. Either would be a good alternative to ADSL in the absence of fibre, if they are available at your new house...
Re: How good is Fibre?
28-07-2011 3:40 PM
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It seems that the modem can overheat if it's lying flat, with the overheating reducing speeds significantly. Mine is mounted vertically, no problems so far.
It would be interesting to get the Plusnet figures for the ratio of satisfied fibre users to those with problems, and similar for ADSL users. I wonder if they dare let us know?
Anyway, I'd say go for it.
Re: How good is Fibre?
28-07-2011 4:48 PM
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Not to mention the huge boost to upload speeds, OK the ISP I had offered the 10Mbit upload option, but 2Mbit is ample for my needs, and is a great boost from 448Kbit.
For the vast majority of my year with that ISP, my connection was flawless, and super speedy, with low pings, no packet loss and high throughput at all times. However, due to their eventual incompetence and their refusal to issue me with a MAC, I had to put a cease order in and have just ordered a new FTTC connection from PN. It will be interesting to see how PN compare to them.
It's going to be a pleasant surprise for the engineer when he turns up at my door, only to find that all the work has already been completed by the engineer that installed the original connection over a year ago. As has been mentioned the modem supplied can overheat lying flat, mine sits vertically to avoid it.
Pros
Higher download speed
Higher Upload speed
Lower Pings
Cons (and these are small ones at that)
Modem prone to overheating
Requires an engineer visit
No modem/routers in one unit on the market yet.
Re: How good is Fibre?
28-07-2011 5:07 PM
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Quote No modem/routers in one unit on the market yet.
Wrong.
VDSL 2 modem/Router
Personally, i like keeping the modem + router seperate, when theyre together i would imagine heavy LAN load would cause issues with WAN speed (slow processor + lots of gbit = )
With fault found...
With a fault on FTTC i was getting 3x what I got on ADSL when it was working perfectly.
Having said that the other line I have at the same premesis (both master sockets are next to each other) has had 37mbit, and hits that constantly
Definitely go with it when its available imho.
Quote apparently incompetent/ignorant BT installation engineers and other such problems.
That always happens, fortunately the engineer I had come had been to the premesis at least 4 times (thanks to faults) ... its probably bad when your on first name terms with your engineer, and know how many sugars he has in his tea....
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Re: How good is Fibre?
30-07-2011 3:14 PM
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Quote from: AxeMurderer
From memory Virgin cable has a presence in Chelt, and there may be some LLU operators too. Either would be a good alternative to ADSL in the absence of fibre, if they are available at your new house...
Oh they do, but I've had so many problems with Virgin cable TV that I'd rather not trust them with my broadband - too many eggs in one basket and all that. I'm quite happy with PN - I've got my phone with them and the package I've got fits my needs quite well so I'd rather stay with them if I can..
Re: How good is Fibre?
30-07-2011 10:26 PM
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31-07-2011 12:13 AM
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31-07-2011 12:57 AM
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Re: How good is Fibre?
31-07-2011 10:21 PM
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Failing that, you'll have to live with 1.5Mb, give or take, until fibre is available.
Re: How good is Fibre?
31-07-2011 10:46 PM
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Quote While you may not like virgin, if you want speeds greater than 1.5Mb any time soon
Whilst I agree with your sentiment AxeMurderer - they *SHOULD* be able to supply speeds of greater...
Thats not always the case, with an oversubscribed network - and poor network management.
Shoddy pings at the expense of decent speed are not uncommon.... conversely Great pings at the expense of throughput aren't either.
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