BT Offer 300mbps Fibre Optic Service

I'd pay for that if it came to my town. 100%

If nothing else, JUST for the 'no traffic management shenanigans' which is, wholey, stupid.
 
Do you think it's worth it?

I might be missing something here, but what would it be useful for? I use just normal Sky Broadband currently, 17mbps, and I can download fine, multiplayer games are fine. I guess it could be useful for downloading purchased games. But I'd imagine most people use it to download movies illegally? :\
 
I'm on 120 down 5~10 up (can't remember) with virgin... more, is more...

The fact you have been able to get like 300mbps in other parts of europe for pitance compared to what we pay here for around 50mbps or so pissed me RIGHT off.

Is £50 p/m worthit? not massively no, but i stream/watch/download enough stuff to not really care. Being on a different system to that of TV cable would make the WORLD of difference to me.

I pay around that for 120mbps and a crappy M+ tv package at the minute and i'd happily dump the tv package for 300/20 fibre broadband, any day of the week.

We're so ripped off in this country for the internet it's fricking shocking...
 
Although the headline speed is good, can they offer that when you connect to a server outside of the UK, and why is it only 300Mb considering with Fibre they can easily do 1Gb without needing to go down the route of passive or active CWDM to achieve 10Gb and above.

I just wish VM would sort the network out finally and unleash the true potential it has because, it would wipe the smile of BT's face instantly.


I must admit though if BT Infinity was available where I live, and it was one of the 50 exchanges where this is going to be available I would sign up to it, regardless of the fact I work for VM, because at the moment the 120Mb service I recieve is great and pretty much stable all the time, it's annoying when I have to download BF3 and a few other games when I reinstall Windows and I get reduced from 120Mb to 70Mb.
 
Would love to see more fiber about just at the moment it is crazy how bad the broadband is in the UK compared to elsewhere. In the middle of a fairly well built town area and they still don't have plans to get fiber out to us until the end of next year even though 5 miles down the road you get infinity and VM up to 120Mb. Currently on about 4.0Mb and it means that any and all games take an absolute age to download, same with patches yet I'm the same price per month as those with Infinity on BT.

What really gets me though is that I'm in a new build area, new cabinet put in not long back and building area out the back and STILL they are laying down copper wire for everything. If BT had any sense they would have fiber from the cabinets to the houses and all they would need to do then is hook up the cabinets.
 
£50 a month aint that bad really......

Considering that I have 2 contracts (for two seperate computers (long story)) and pay combined £32 a month for 15GB usage on each contract, and just recently speedtest is showing 4mb Down at best....

Having said that, BT comes with Line Rental :(

Me personally I'll be opting for Virgin Media 100mb line. Works out at £32 on average a month, but no caps and more importantly no Phone Line.
 
Fiber Optics here in the US is very rare. Only the largest cities have them and all other cities that do have it are the extremely wealthy ones. All other cities may or may not have plans for even getting them until a few years. Most people are stuck with less than 10mbps until we obtain FO. Really pisses me off because many people pay around $40-$60 a month for such sluggish speed. Really wish i could get FO so it doesn't take 6 hours to download a game.
 
Mathius said:
Me personally I'll be opting for Virgin Media 100mb line. Works out at £32 on average a month, but no caps and more importantly no Phone Line.
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You'll still get throttled and it's pants when anything popular is on TV
 
NeverBackDown said:
Fiber Optics here in the US is very rare. Only the largest cities have them and all other cities that do have it are the extremely wealthy ones. All other cities may or may not have plans for even getting them until a few years. Most people are stuck with less than 10mbps until we obtain FO. Really pisses me off because many people pay around $40-$60 a month for such sluggish speed. Really wish i could get FO so it doesn't take 6 hours to download a game.
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Fiber optics to the home is extremely rare in the US, but for businesses/government it's pretty common. I live in a very small area, but I can get up to 100Mb service from my local cable provider. I go with their 30Mbit plan though for $40/month.
 
Everything through your home telephone line is ridiculously expensive. My current monthly bill is about £90 a month:

Sky Line Rental - £15?
Sky Broadband - £7 (half price)
Sky+ HD Entertainment Extra - 45-50?
Sky Sports HD - £21
Sky HD Package - £10
If I rent the monthly WWE PPV's - £14-20.

What is it that costs so much and why do we need to pay line rental? I won't even consider fibre optic because its an extra £20 with Sky. I want multi room but that's another £10, and another for HD!
 
ShaunB-91 said:
Everything through your home telephone line is ridiculously expensive. My current monthly bill is about £90 a month:

Sky Line Rental - £15?
Sky Broadband - £7 (half price)
Sky+ HD Entertainment Extra - 45-50?
Sky Sports HD - £21
Sky HD Package - £10
If I rent the monthly WWE PPV's - £14-20.

What is it that costs so much and why do we need to pay line rental? I won't even consider fibre optic because its an extra £20 with Sky. I want multi room but that's another £10, and another for HD!
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Sky is such a damn rippoff...

I'd be looking at the VM packages when you're paying all that, no extra 'HD charge' and you only pay a little extra for another box, i don't think you pay more per month either... I'm pretty sure you get most/all of the same channels as sky these days.

That or y'know netflix and whatnot.. that's SO much money for all that.
 
hmmblah said:
Fiber optics to the home is extremely rare in the US, but for businesses/government it's pretty common. I live in a very small area, but I can get up to 100Mb service from my local cable provider. I go with their 30Mbit plan though for $40/month.
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I understand that but i see no reason why we do not have it. Lucky you get 30mbit. I'm "promised" 6-9Mbit but yet on a good day i only get 5mbit down with 1mbit up.. paltry i know.
 
Tell me about it, but when Sky advertise it's like get Sky TV and Broadband for only £21 a month...what?!

The annoying thing is, I only wanted the Sports Package, for WWE and a bit of football....but you have to spend all that to get it.

I've got until January then my year contract is up then I might consider saving myself £100 a month and cancelling the contract. But then my only way to watch WWE is illegally, I've done it before but I don't like doing it, I pay for everything, games, movies, music.
 
I don't see why you can't pick say 20 channels you want to watch and pay for JUST those, instead of having to subscribe to everything to get just a select few.

What the hell do I need sky living for when I want sky 1 HD? it's bullcrap, you should get a list of all channels, and you should be charged for the number of channels you actually WANT not what you're forced into by the carefully selected and split apart packages.

First company to sell their TV this way will get my money faster than they can install the frickin service.
 
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