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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

My internet connection has been poor for as long as I can remember. It runs via a Huawei router, This cost an additional £150 at the time.

Service is piss poor at best...whirling circles are the order of the day. Speeds both up and down are glacial.

Quickline are now supplying full fibre broadband at a cost of £49 a month for (supposedly) 1000 Mbps both up and down. The first 8 months of the 2 year contract is free so, the actual price is £32.66 pcm.

No idea if this supplier is any good, but it can't possibly be worse than what I currently have.

Anyone have experience of Quickline? I believe they are located in desirable city of Hull.

[Varche]

Could the. Problem be your router/ settings? 

I long for the day we can have a proper hard wired broadband. We have 4G giving up to 19 Meg but varies hugely depending on time of day. The Satellite internet is much faster , maybe 150 Meg but with huge latency. Both stream TV and both suffer spinning circles regularly.

Our satellite supplier did an upgrade and pointed the dish very slightly elsewhere and changed the router ( but still same make) the Wi-Fi coverage was hugely improved

[Doctor Gollum]

If you have a decent mobile signal, get that provider for your interwebs.

Hell, you could probably buy a cheap smart phone with an unlimited data SIM only contract, leave it plugged in on the side in the kitchen and use it as a permanent hotspot.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

We did try Starlink for £75 a month but it didn't work out at all well.

Back it went.

[Varche]

We did try Starlink for £75 a month but it didn't work out at all well.

Back it went.

What was the issue with starlink? I believe it is faster then the “ Hispasat” we use but Hispasat is free install and 35 euros a month so is/ was cheaper.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

We did try Starlink for £75 a month but it didn't work out at all well.

Back it went.

What was the issue with starlink? I believe it is faster then the “ Hispasat” we use but Hispasat is free install and 35 euros a month so is/ was cheaper.

They insist the dish should be pointed at open sky, which we have plenty of. But it was still hit and miss as to how good the internet was. More miss than  hit in fact. Also, at £75 each month, it was far from inexpensive for something that was so compromised.

Customer service said there was nothing else they could do so it went back to Elon. No quibbles.

[Jimbob]

All going to depend on who has put that fibre into your area.
Put your postcode into the find broadband deal at thinkbroadband.com for starters, and post the list it supplies here.

There are some other handy tools on that site too.

That will give us some better info.

Can also look at :
https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL/AddressHome
https://www.openreach.com/broadband-for-homes
https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/exchanges/find

All of which will add to the picture

If you want me to advise as well as I can, Pm your postcode and Ill list everything I can find about it.

[Marks DTM Calib]

We did try Starlink for £75 a month but it didn't work out at all well.

Back it went.

What was the issue with starlink? I believe it is faster then the “ Hispasat” we use but Hispasat is free install and 35 euros a month so is/ was cheaper.

Starlink can be fitted by a child as there is no dish alignment needed, it should be low latency as its LEO based and our tests suggest it is. But, it does suffer drops in connectivity

[TheBoy]

Not heard of that provider, but check how much in-contract annual price hikes will be, they can be excessive (OFCOM allow RPI+3.9% annually)

Dump the Hauwei router. There consumer stuff is universally shit (and Telco's have to remove all their enterprise grade stuff, LOL)

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Not heard of that provider, but check how much in-contract annual price hikes will be, they can be excessive (OFCOM allow RPI+3.9% annually)

Dump the Hauwei router. There consumer stuff is universally shit (and Telco's have to remove all their enterprise grade stuff, LOL)

Relatively new, I believe.

I think they only serve the remote carrot-crunchers of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire who have a problem obtaining a good internet connection.

Can't fault the service thus far. When I contact them the call is answered very quickly by a person with an English (albeit northern) accent.