Newtel Ytel 20mbit Fibre Optic Broadband Speedtest

I live in Jersey, Channel Islands and Newtel Ytel are currently rolling out fibre optic broadband to area's where they have their cable.

As a taste of what you can expect I link to my speedtest.net result http://www.speedtest.net/result/2756427673.png

A bit different to this post

In reply to a post by nlel:

I live in Jersey, Channel Islands and Jersey Telecom JT Global are currently upgrading the existing copper to fibre optic meaning we will all soon have the option of gigabit broadband.

As a taste of what we can expect I link to this speedtest.net result

Speedtest.net

Connected my PC via Ethernet cable to the router and got an even higher result

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2758524247.png

Wow. That's truly mind blowing speeds you've got there . My Sky Fibre Unlimited (FTTC) does 40Mb and that's not even full fibre . Oh and it's £20 a month compared to your £15.74 or whatever including GST. I think I've got the better deal

Yeah but you have to pay for a phone line on top and I don't so I win

You could try a different test

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html

I always worry when people say they are on a 20 Mbps service and a test shows more than that, unless the ISP is being clever and over provisioning.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

You could try a different test

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html

I always worry when people say they are on a 20 Mbps service and a test shows more than that, unless the ISP is being clever and over provisioning.

Most I have seen is 22mbit down, it doesn't always get that high but is usually higher than the 15mbit I was often topping out at with a Wireless-N adaptor.

If wireless N is topping out at those speeds you have a bad wireless setup or lots of walls in the way

Don't know why the wifi performs so bad, PC in the same room as the Router only a few feet away and a 5 bar connection. Just thought I would try with an Ethernet cable and now I won't go back to wifi. In fact just ordered a 5M Cat 5 cable from eBay as the current one is only 2M and its ok temporarily.

Just done some testing and I think it may be down to my USB wifi adaptors as my machines with built in wifi seem to be OK speedwise.

Edited by deleted (Fri 07-Jun-13 18:22:26)

Not if you get free line rental deals!

In reply to a post by mysticeddy:

Not if you get free line rental deals!

Which we can't here in Jersey.

In reply to a post by nlel:

Don't know why the wifi performs so bad, PC in the same room as the Router only a few feet away and a 5 bar connection.

Possibly you have serious interference. I assume you've tried the free tools such as inSSIDer (on Windows and Android) to see the channels around you? 5GHz can help if the router and the PC/laptop support it.

If its a USB connected adaptor (some cheap laptops use USB internally) then USB2 can in many cases manage very slow speeds.

Edited by jchamier (Sat 08-Jun-13 17:16:45)

I find my machines with built in wifi adaptors don't suffer from the same problem, its only my USB wifi adaptors that cannot seem to go much above 15mbit.

In reply to a post by nlel:

I find my machines with built in wifi adaptors don't suffer from the same problem, its only my USB wifi adaptors that cannot seem to go much above 15mbit.

You should get about 30megabit on USB 2 but I suspect the WiFi adaptors are made cheaply.

Check out this youtube video of a speedtest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPhUVhy5aNk

Given you posted this to at least 4 different forums I guess you're very pleased.

Worth remembering though that Virgin Media were offering this speed via CATV a while ago, and Be via Annex M ADSL2+ for an even longer period.

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

Worth remembering though that Virgin Media were offering this speed via CATV a while ago, and Be via Annex M ADSL2+ for an even longer period.

and Bulldog before that - I had 18meg download, 1 meg upload with Bulldog back in 2006 on ADSL2+ on a 25db line.

Hopefully the OP will be able to buy faster speeds as time goes on.

Edited by jchamier (Mon 15-Jul-13 21:01:40)

In reply to a post by jchamier:

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

Worth remembering though that Virgin Media were offering this speed via CATV a while ago, and Be via Annex M ADSL2+ for an even longer period.

and Bulldog before that - I had 18meg download, 1 meg upload with Bulldog back in 2006 on ADSL2+ on a 25db line.

Hopefully the OP will be able to buy faster speeds as time goes on.

What I am most pleased about is that I only pay £ 15.74 a month for my Internet connection and am not forking out another £ 12.75 for a landline I would never use.

In respect of this I am happy with the 20mbit/s speed as its faster then I have ever had before, my previous WiMAX connection would download at between 2.5 to 3.5 mbit/s and had a ping time of between 90-130 which was obviously no good for gaming.

pretty low upload speed for Fibre

It's cable, Phil.

In reply to a post by yarwell:

pretty low upload speed for Fibre

Looks like JT (jersey telecom) are doing FTTP but the usage limits are very low for high speed services.
http://www.jtglobal.com/Jersey/Personal/JT-Fibre/Fib...

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

It's cable, Phil.

I was trying to work out if it was cable or just ADSL2+ ?

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

It's cable, Phil.

Doh ! Thanks.

It may be cable but I have a strand of fibre optic cable running into my flat which they pulled through the existing cable ducts into the faceplate in my bedroom.

Pictures if you can, and also confirm you are not paid by or are an employee of ytel?

If the service is true FTTP then there is little to no information on their website other than speed/packages that look like cable broadband 10 years ago

Seems odd to offer such poor packages if deploying pure FTTP and odder to have one person posting all over the place about it when their own site is so sparse on detail

I am certainly not a ytel employee there are photos of the installation available here

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/20/img0492th.jpg/

and here

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/196/img0495bd.jpg/

and here

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/21/img0518il.jpg/

The reason why its not on their website yet is because its currently only available in select area's at the moment. The only thing they mention on their website is the WiMAX service which is more widely available atm.

Edited by deleted (Tue 16-Jul-13 12:57:17)

So I see:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/uk.local.cha...

There site is well s?ite

Just 1p/month*

* Price is per month when you take ytel home phone line rental at £12.75 per month.

40:1 contended 4M service bursting to 20M as system allows.

In reply to a post by yarwell:

There site is well s?ite

Just 1p/month*

* Price is per month when you take ytel home phone line rental at £12.75 per month.

40:1 contended 4M service bursting to 20M as system allows.

Yeah that's the WiMAX service they are talking about there.