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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Internet speeds have been glacially slow here for as long as I can remember. Whirling circles or 'computer says no' is common in the land of the carrot-cruncher.

It's not uncommon for both upload and download speeds to be less than 3 or 4 Mbps.

Anyway, a new provider called Quickline has been set up to help resident prols in Lincolnshire and rural parts of Yorkshire with (supposedly) super quick fibre optic broadband.....with help from the tax payer.

We have signed up to a 24 month contract  offering 1000Mbps for £32 each month.....both the inner and outer cable are ready to be drilled through the wall on the 22nd December.

Fingers crossed.

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[Varche]

What is the delivery tech?  Ie from your property to the exchange. I thought there was no fibre in your area?

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

What is the delivery tech?  Ie from your property to the exchange. I thought there was no fibre in your area?

This was the case for years.

We made do with an internet connection from Tandy designed in 1972.

[TheBoy]

What is the delivery tech?  Ie from your property to the exchange. I thought there was no fibre in your area?

It'll be an altnet, so won't go to any exchange.  Given the speeds, it will likely be based on XGS-PON technology, unlike the junk Openreach are still fitting on virtually all their full fibre rollout, GPON.  That's part of the reason any Openreach based fibre has woeful upload speeds, and BT Group's senior management fails to grasp why upload is important in the world of cloud service, IoT devices and social video sites....


When Gigaclear cocked up my install quite spectacularly, I went with Swish for almost a year on a 1gbps synchronous service, and I found it unnecessarily fast.  So when Gigaclear finally sorted out their shit, I dropped that order to 500mbps sync .  I do big uploads frequently (and often get a telling off from gaytube for trying to upload videos larger than 250GB ), and never seem to be waiting for things to finish....

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I have no idea if it will be good, but we have little choice out here having already tried a router, and Starlink, at £75 a month.

[ronnyd]

Hope you have better luck than i did.Signed up to Sky about four months ago. Had date fixed for connection to the fibre cables installed on my estate by a company called City Fibre. Got a text from Sky postponing the connection until they had completed a "feasibility study". Week later got a phone call from City Fibre (who it seems are owned by Sky) saying that there were issues with the cables laid under the pavements on my road, which were defective and they had no plans to rectify them, as the uptake of customers was minimal. I then had to crawl back to BT, now EE to be reconnected.
Not surprised really as the first gang of contractors were a real bunch of cowboys. Which meant that another gang had to come out to rectify the work. Not very well it seems. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Hope you have better luck than i did.Signed up to Sky about four months ago. Had date fixed for connection to the fibre cables installed on my estate by a company called City Fibre. Got a text from Sky postponing the connection until they had completed a "feasibility study". Week later got a phone call from City Fibre (who it seems are owned by Sky) saying that there were issues with the cables laid under the pavements on my road, which were defective and they had no plans to rectify them, as the uptake of customers was minimal. I then had to crawl back to BT, now EE to be reconnected.
Not surprised really as the first gang of contractors were a real bunch of cowboys. Which meant that another gang had to come out to rectify the work. Not very well it seems. 

Hopefully everything will go to plan, Ronny.

Quickline are based in Hull, and when contacted  they always pick up the phone within a matter of seconds.

Also, every single female voice is English sounding, although I imagine they will farm customer service out to our dusky cousins abroad before too long if the company continues to grow.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Install went well and the engineer performed a speed test that showed more than 1000mbps both up down.

Thing is, when I do a speed test with my computer I average around 230mbps both up and down, and only about 15mbps on my tablet that has a free VPN.

Mrs Opti's computer only shows around 75mbps up and down. Although her computer is 10 years old.

So where do they get the 1000mbps figure from?

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Perhaps it is starting to find it's  mojo.

Ookla just showed 1018mbps down and 906mbps up.

[Kevin Wood]

How are the computers connected?

You won't get near a gigabit unless you have a cabled connection to the hub.

[TheBoy]

As Kevin Wood says, WiFi 6 (ax) will give around 900Mb *IF* you are stood right next to the router/accesspoint, WiFi 5 (ac) will give around 300Mb if next to router.  These will drop dramatically as soon as you have a wall in the way. Also, they will drop dramatically if you use WiFi mesh or extenders.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Roughly 230 both up and down as I type this......about 10 feet from the router.

I think my Lenovo is WiFi 6.........Mrs Opti tells me her geriatric decade old laptop is WiFi 4.

[TheBoy]

What router have they given you, as if thats WiFi 6 and no walls between your and the router, thats not great

[STEMO]

Plenty fast enough for everyday use. I watch HD films on Netflix, etc, with 75.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

What router have they given you, as if thats WiFi 6 and no walls between your and the router, thats not great

Zyxel EX5601-TO 2.5G with SFP

No idea what that means.