Fibre to the property

[Chippy_Tea]

Could i ask members who have moved to FTTP how much faster Wi-Fi speeds are compared to FTTC

 

[The Baron]

I did it in the last year went with a Company called You Fibre and it is night and day.
I would not go back to FTTC my speeds went from circa 50 to over 500

 

[MA71]

 

[MA71]

That’s over wireless on my iPhone, at peak time early evening, I have Virgin 500mb contract but we often get well above the half gig

 

[The Baron]

just done this Chippy

 

[MashBag]

But don't forget that's outside the walls.. Inside the max speed is the WiFi it's plugged into.

But it will still break your postie

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I would not go back to FTTC my speeds went from circa 50 to over 500

Is that wi-fi speed or ethernet?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

But don't forget that's outside the walls.. Inside the max speed is the WiFi it's plugged into.

Can you explain this as you didn't quote any posts.

 

[The Baron]

Yes it is wifi on my laptop it is even faster on mine and the wifes phones.
It would be even faster with a ethernet direct connection
£27.99 a month
The router is in the hallway and I am in the living room about 8 meters away with walls between.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Yes it is wifi on my laptop it is even faster on mine and the wifes phones.
It would be even faster with a ethernet direct connection
£27.99 a month
The router is in the hallway and I am in the living room about 8 meters away with walls between.

Thanks B that has put my mind at rest, my lad games (i think he hosts) so needs a decent speed that doesn't drop and i have no doubt we update our ageing TV to 4k in the near future so we will then be able to watch Netflix in 4k.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

It says in many of the install videos i have watched you need two power outlets near where the fibre enters the property as the ONT and Router both need power, do you know if you can use something like this if you need to plug something else into one of the two sockets?

 

[The Baron]

It did on mine luckily I had a double already there.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

It did on mine luckily I had a double already there.

Sorry mate i don't think i explained properly i have a twin socket in the location i would like the ONT but is it ok to have the ONT, Router and something else plugged in at the same time using
an adapter like the one below?

 

[Stu]

Could i ask members who have moved to FTTP how much faster Wi-Fi speeds are compared to FTTC

IT Tech answer.....

There are a number of things that impact your WiFi speed and quite often the speed of your broadband doesn't make too much difference.

For instance, I'm on a 900mb FTTP line at the moment.

My laptop, which isn't the latest hardware is connecting via my 2.4ghz Mesh network. I'm getting 96Mb/s, which isn't far off the 92Mb/s that I used to get from standard BT copper (the cabinet is at the end of the road)
My phone, which is a fairly modern iPhone is connecting via the Trooli provided latest router. It's getting 760Mb/s.

So the answer is.... it actually depends on the hardware.

I live in a 1950s 3 bed bungalow that has super thick walls. I have 7 (Yes!) Mesh points. I'm going to shortly replace them with WiFi points that I'm going to connect together with Cat 6 cable.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

My laptop, which isn't the latest hardware is connecting via my 2.4ghz Mesh network. I'm getting 96Mb/s, which isn't far off the 92Mb/s that I used to get from standard BT copper (the cabinet is at the end of the road)
My phone, which is a fairly modern iPhone is connecting via the Trooli provided latest router. It's getting 760Mb/s.

Thanks Stu.

Most of the devices we connect have 5 GHz and the house is small so we have never had issues with signal strength or slow speed.

The 2.4 GHz band provides longer-range coverage but transmits data at slower speeds. The 5 GHz band offers less coverage but transmits at faster speeds than the 2.4 GHz band.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I hope my installer is a little more conscientious than this blokes was -

I wonder if they asked if there was somewhere they could tie their horses up while they threw the box and cable at the wall.

 

[hoppyscotty]

Just signed up for BeFibre 150Mbps. Just done a ping test on my current BT broadband and got 55Mbps so should be alot better...though having said that my current 55Mbps seems to be pretty adequate for all our viewing including simultaneous streaming on multiple devices and achieving 4k streaming to the TV. But the package is more than half the price of BT and if I wanted to pay for an upgrade could go upto 2Gbps!! so alot more capacity via fibre should I ever need it.

 

[Stu]

I was offered 300, 900 and 2gbps.
The difference between 300 and 900 wasn't that much and as we both work from home (her 100%), we figured it was a "business" cost that we could swallow.

I mean, I'm saving 60% of my fuel costs since pre-covid, it's the least I could do.
Frankly, for most people, if spending £35 means you can work from home, comfortably, then I'll take it.

As an aside, Giganet offered me 2 years free, but they couldn't actually install the bloody thing (I live on a private road - my current provider go over the top. They go under the road)

 

[Larse]

You'e also limited by your device. I have 1Gb fibre and my PC (wired all the way to the router) routinely gets 930Mb (it has 2.5Gb ethernet). My laptop maxes out at 438MB and my phone at 640. WiFi will always have some loss, so the laptop gets around 300 and the phone about 500. Those rates on a 1Gb wireless access point direct wired back to the router.

My Sky Q box can only manage 40 from the same WAP. Useless pos.

 

[Leon103]

I have had it since the turn of the year and couldn't really see the difference in my day to day use. I guess downloading is a lot faster. Saying that, we now use more devices than before and there is never any issues with multiple devices streaming or gaming. I am on full fibre 500mb with BT. Speed test just completed and said 520mb download and 76mb upload.