In reply to a post by pluralist:

With luck my F1 viewing will run without buffering/stuttering this weekend for the first time in ages. .

I thought you were quite happy with your Three cellular broadband service, but perhaps in more recent times you were swearing more at the connection rather than by the connection 😅

In any event glad you got your fibre hooked up. It's a safer bet now that Brsk are under the YouFibre umbrella. Jeremey C. is a v/good operator. Hopefully any integration plans they have go smoothly.

In reply to a post by pluralist:

Been on Three Home Broadband since December 2018 but fell for brsk when they started installing their infrastructure around here in October (linking via Openreach poles) and had a chat with one of the contractors doing that.

At the time the price I signed up for was £25 fixed for 2 years, which is roughly the same as my Three which has been fine on 4G+ for years but for the last 12 months increasingly showing signs of congestion following 5G being installed on the main roads and most of the area.

There has been a few months holdup as they found they needed to add some telegraph poles, against some objections. The price for new signups has gone up a bit but mine is staying as contracted.

Took two men 40 minutes to install the ONT and router exactly where I wanted and commission it, and they did a very clean job. Now have my TV, Humax box, iPad and phone set up to use it.

With luck my F1 viewing will run without buffering/stuttering this weekend for the first time in ages. .

Sounds great, hope you enjoy your new connection

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

I thought you were quite happy with your Three cellular broadband service, but perhaps in more recent times you were swearing more at the connection rather than by the connection 😅

Cellular is always at risk of extreme variability unless you are in an extremely rural situation. Good that Bob managed to have a reliable service for such a long time.

Potentially the Three/Vodafone merger will change things in the next 5 years again, who knows in which ways.

Yeah. Shared medium innit. 😅

I remember, pre FTTPoD in the bad old days - long line ADSL+ copper only alternative, when I first put up my first 4G-X-POL antenna on the old chimney in Suffolk in around 2015 and sniffed some of that early EE 4G goodness. 60 Mbps!! Wow it blew my mind.

In time as more subscribers got on board it got worse and worse.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Yeah. Shared medium innit. 😅

Yes, and worse as networks roll out 5G NR to more bands they are using DSS, so you end up being put on LTE instead of NR on the band that is optimised for your CPE.

I remember, pre FTTPoD in the bad old days - long line ADSL+ copper only alternative, when I first put up my first 4G-X-POL antenna on the old chimney in Suffolk in around 2015 and sniffed some of that early EE 4G goodness. 60 Mbps!! Wow it blew my mind.

I had an EE SIM back in the first few days of launching 4G, when it was only 10 Mhz of Band 3 spectrum, having seen about 40 Mbps at best on Three using DC-HSDPA but quite sluggish, on an iPhone 5 it was amazing to get 60 Mbps on LTE, renamed 4G on the next iOS update

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Can I ask how downtime has been?

I'm moving in a few days (on BT FTTP 900 currently but not available at new place) and BRSK was the only viable choice based on speed and static IP's for my servers. However since placing my order I've read a lot about downtimes. Not used to this on BT and my uptimes can be measured in the hundreds of days.

What are your experiences so far?

No downtime at all.

Excellent. I suppose you are more likely to hear from disgruntled customers than happy ones. Just a couple of days to go till my install date now. Can't wait for the additional upload speed and escape an asymmetrical connection for once.

Not taking anything away from @pluralist but the timeline is too short on his install to provide any meaningful view of unplanned outages.

You really need to be asking users over a far longer period. 6 to 12 months will give you a better idea of stability and frequency of any unplanned downtime or outages.