EE and Vodafone have 1.6, it was a BT (EE) Exclusive for 12 months, but Vodafone have taken it and other wholesale customers are starting to sell it too.
The speed issue is usually upload speed is increased with the higher download speeds. Other EU countries don't have this issue because most of them do 1:1 contention rations.
UK is broken here, mainly because of NTL/Virgins network limiting upload - which has left BT to cheap out and offer very limited upload speeds. It's only the altnets that are currently offering 1:1 connections.
What's laughable is that even with their 1.6 services BT is hard limiting customers with their already terribly low 105-115 upload speeds.
I like upload speeds, I stream and send videos and files to my parents in France which is the limiting factor for me. Otherwise I'd have gone with either BT/Vodafone packages.
Also in terms of pure annoyance my plan is to put my openreach ONT behind my desk which would also be behind a rack cabinet. If PlusNet was to start offering 1600 with a 300+ upload speed in 3months+ I would instantly upgrade - meaning having to pull out and disconnect everything just to fiddle again for another engineer visit.
I agree, most customers won't really even care, but for power users, it would make much more sense to offer that option - although to be perfectly honest in 2023-2025 the cost between 1GbE and 2.5GbE is rather minimal, especially considering the cost of an Engineer callout to replace ewaste later on.
But as I said it's indicative of the UK's penny pinching jokes. But it's just part of BT's fake economy again.
Virgin Hubs have had 2.5GbE ported Routers for a long time (I'd know I've been Gig1 for 3+ years), iirc all customers in their Gig2 areas are getting routers with 10GbE ports on them. That's not incoming, that's outgoing for direct PC or to a switch.
