I'd not heard of Vodafone's gigafast service until a couple of days ago but it looks quite nice (but I've also not checked what the alternatives are yet).
I learnt of it for the first time just recently when a company called CityFibre came around as part of the preliminary survey work checking that the current BT conduit had room for the additional fibre to be blown through to the home. Apparently they will be offering several packages in our area very soon. All the packages include:
Unlimited broadband usage
Home phoneline included
Vodafone’s best ever broadband router
Free Vodafone content controls to protect the family
The packages are:
Download 100Mbps - Upload 100Mbps - Line rental £0 - Upfront £0.00 - Monthly Cost £28.00
Download 200Mbps - Upload 200Mbps - Line rental £0 - Upfront £0.00 - Monthly Cost £33.00
Download 500Mbps - Upload 500Mbps - Line rental £0 - Upfront £0.00 - Monthly Cost £38.00
Download 900Mbps - Upload 900Mbps - Line rental £0 - Upfront £0.00 - Monthly Cost £48.00
The 500Mbps and 900Mbps packages are both a monthly saving and a speed increase compared to my current BT phone+internet package, but has anyone actually used them before?
https://www.vodafone.co.uk/web-shop/broadband/deals/gigafast
Nope not heard anything or can't I get the service :ranting2:
Quote from: BrotherTobious;434665Nope not heard anything or can I get the service :ranting2:
Me neither - on both counts :sad:
Computer says 'no'. :(
More specifically: Not available in your area.
Can't get it...shame!
Nope not in Hertfordshire. You have to ask at what point broadband speeds just become academic. 25gb can stream 4K so currently I can watch six movies simultaneously on my Virgin package. I'm coming to believe anything over about 100mb is irrelevant unless you have an army of teenage children to contend with.
I wish there were more of the providers that upped their upload speeds tho.
That's a very good point. There's a huge variance between providers
My download speed is 220mb (I forgot that my GF had screwed yet another free upgrade out of Virgin on the threat of leaving them :D ) and 12mb down. I do quite a lot of Photo uploads but even 12mb isn't horrible. I believe Virgins older infrastructure limits upload speeds, which I guess most people don't even need.
Quote from: smilodon;434670Nope not in Hertfordshire. You have to ask at what point broadband speeds just become academic. 25gb can stream 4K so currently I can watch six movies simultaneously on my Virgin package. I'm coming to believe anything over about 100mb is irrelevant unless you have an army of teenage children to contend with.
Bandwidth is like crack! once you had a little you need a lot more :)
Streaming that movie in 8K means you'll need pretty much all of that 100Mbps....... :roflmao:
Not until I go and buy that 85" monitor :D
I might have to wait for 16K though as that's now a thing apparently.
http://www.innolux.com/Pages/en/News/News342_en.html
This will only be available where (if I've got my terminology right) Vodafone have Local Loop Unbundling and the physical infrastructure in place to provide the speeds they are quoting. Anything above 100Mbps was once only considered capable if you had FTTP, Fibre to the Premises. I think the 'last mile' analysis changed that, so as long as your within a certain distance of the exchange and the green on your street is fibred up you should be able to get at least the 100Mbps, this is what BT offers (Wholesale and Retail) in the upto 80Mbps packages, FTTC, Fibre to the Cabinet.
There was a huge push (and government grants) to get everyone onto FTTC, there doesn't seem to be the same appetite at least from central government to push that any further. At least that I've seen, which leaves private companies such as Vodafone and others to fill in the gap, the problem is they do it in such a way that's incredibly target and revenue focused, so only in high value areas. Which is pretty useless for the majority of us...
Samknows.com used to be a great resource for this stuff but I don't think the database is maintained anymore (and I'm probably a couple of years out of date on my info too, I got Fibre back around 2012 and I've been fairly content with it since) https://availability.samknows.com/broadband/llu/bulldog
They have LLU here and I already have FTTP, so that's all good news! [emoji16]
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Those are amazingly good prices compared to BT. I have FTTP too but it's BT only at the moment.:sad:
100 down ma 6 up - dropped to 1/2 up tonight annoying