In reply to a post by RR_The_IT_Guy:

I am currently on a slow package with VM M100 and getting 100 is like the probability of getting signal in a nuclear bunker.

Really depends which regional area and street you are connected to. Here I'm on m200 and I'm getting close to 200 all the time, ranging from 180 to 220. The upload is similar 17 to 20. I may be lucky.

To be fair you have a point there I'm in area 31 and the whole of my area not just my street are getting issues and we as a community are at a point where we regret choosing VM.

I did say that as i knew there were a lot of issues with the new gig one as the VM forums are backed with overutilization issues shown on the BMQ's.
I just don't want people to sign up to a service that does not deliver I hope you understand that.

VM customer services are absolutely abysmal and I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy. Have you tried actually talking to them?

I've dropped M350 to go back to [censored] FTTC on about 70mbit because I refuse to deal with Vermin Media again. Awaiting Cityfibre finishing my area of Ipswich.

I would certainly take BT FTTP over Vermin, who in my 4 years with them had *so many* random downtimes, outages etc.

The upload is a lot better as well, and you can go via an isp like Zen who actually have decent CS.

I have unfortunately its a completely abysmal experience the last engineer i had smashed my lamp and refused to pay for it so luckily I knew his boss happened to live near me so when i saw him go past at the usual time and flagged him down and he said he would "sort it out", he never did. So i had to file a complaint and that got sorted after 10 phone calls each for two hours.
I'll tell you one thing if i could leave I would but they are refusing to follow the ofcom policies so i'm stuck.
I know one thing I get downtime every night at 1AM its like if they schedule the annoyance.
I can get FTTC 80 down 20up however its my understanding that the previous owner of the house had a bonded connection so i can get 160down 40up however I am not sure on that as there was a line failure back when i was on ADSL so they had to swap the line.
the cab is literally less than 100 M away and visible from my window.
I know september 2022 cant come soon enough for the FTTP

Proper bonded FTTC services aren’t universally available from all providers.

You’d need to approach someone like A&A or Cerberus I think do them. And they won’t simply be 2 x the average going rate of individual FTTC connections as there is additional setup and ongoing overhead required for the bonding to work.

Doesn’t stop you rolling your own solution and exercising your IT skills though.

Thanks for your message

I did speak to A&A and even got a quote from Cerberus for FTTPoD a while back (a little expensive especially considering there is a Aggregation node a street away something like £6000-9000 i can't remember exactly but i guess supply and demand).

I get what your saying I mean i'll give virgin till the date the network van dude gave me and see what happens and if its not fixed i will initiate Ofcom speed tests with them again and then will move over to whoever is suitable considering costs.

Round here people are getting rid of VM and neighbours gone to FTTC.

I am the first with FTTP installed (yesterday) and so far all is good - 1Mbps sync but BT Business can only off me 300Mbps. Testing on a wireless connection earlier seeing around 310 down 40 up - and will try wired at some point. Latency is down at sub 5mS (TBB), and if Mr S could change the graph scale I could see more accurately.

Using BTs Cloud voice, that is fine too.



Co-incidentally a tall vehicle pulled down two drop wires belonging to neighbours. One reported to BT Consumer/Residential yesterday PM and he was back up by lunchtime with a new drop wire.

Nice gotta love that stuff.
I can't wait
let us know how your tests go I know i use fresh ping to check my latency in more detail maybe give it a go just to see obviously its not as good as the BMQ here which has more info so I use a mix of tools.

In reply to a post by MHC:

I am the first with FTTP installed (yesterday) and so far all is good - 1Mbps sync but BT Business can only off me 300Mbps

Two typos?

Definitely one - not used to typing G, second probably predictive text.