In reply to a post by candlerb:

For the majority, the only price point which matters is the bottom one. Since Cityfibre has a more national footprint, I'll include them too: Vodafone on Cityfibre is £24 for 100/100.

For a significant proportion of the population that is the only price point that they can afford, and many can't even afford that.

I would also add that a lot of people don't care about upload speed because they don't understand the issues that a low upload speed can cause.

Finally I would argue strongly that the last 20 months have shown that more than 2Mbps upload speed is actually desirable for the vast majority of people. Certainly anyone wanting to do a video meeting with decent video quality. Though admittedly if you have poor upload it's not you who see the problem, it's everyone else on the call so it can be the case you don't realise there is a problem.

Those speeds are amazing! You are actually the first person I've seen online that has the service....

Just curious: their "3 gbps" service, is it 2.5gbe? do you need 10 gbe wiring or is it 2.5 wiring to get the full speed? As the costs will be significantly if it's 10 gbe.

What's your use case for using 3 gbps connection?

Cheers,

Edited by hanxu (Wed 03-Nov-21 11:39:14)

You can’t physically deliver (or access) a 3 Gbps service over anything less than a 5 Gbps Ethernet port. It’s not possible.

"inally I would argue strongly that the last 20 months have shown that more than 2Mbps upload speed is actually desirable for the vast majority of people. Certainly anyone wanting to do a video meeting with decent video quality. Though admittedly if you have poor upload it's not you who see the problem, it's everyone else on the call so it can be the case you don't realise there is a problem."

That was our issue what with 2 people working from home it was nigh impossible for clear Teams, etc.

Most of my network supports 10Gb so it's not been an issue.

I have a couple of devices with 2.5Gb NICs and they topout around 2Gb sometimes a little higher.

Edited by jon999 (Wed 03-Nov-21 16:32:40)

In reply to a post by arfster:

No, totally pointless and a complete waste of money.

Admittedly, I'd subscribe immediately if I could get it here.

That is exactly how I feel. To be honest I can't justify the 900mbps connection I have from a 'use' perspective but ordered it to upgrade from 300mbps as soon as it was available.

In reply to a post by hanxu:

Currently on Community Fibre 1 gb getting constant 940 speed and 0ms(wired) 2ms(wireless) pins, and recently 3 gb is available in my area, really want to get it, but can't make a use case to justify the additional monthly cost, what could be the use case for this apart from having the fastest home broadband in the country?

Current discount offer ends tomorrow - £89 pcm. Hurry while stocks last

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

In reply to a post by hanxu:

Currently on Community Fibre 1 gb getting constant 940 speed and 0ms(wired) 2ms(wireless) pins, and recently 3 gb is available in my area, really want to get it, but can't make a use case to justify the additional monthly cost, what could be the use case for this apart from having the fastest home broadband in the country?

Current discount offer ends tomorrow - £89 pcm. Hurry while stocks last

They’re now doing 6 months free on a 24 month contract or 3 months free on a 12 month contract. Effectively 25% discount.

If they were in my neighbourhood in London I’d bite their hand off for 3 Gbps symmetric service for less than £75 a month.