Of Course 100 mbps would be plenty, we're managing on 6mbps with QoS on but more speed is never a bad thing, and 4k was just an example, the way gaming is going also, there becoming bigger and bigger each year and with cloud storage as well, but then again i'd be happy with 10mbps and/or 100mbps.

Also that hyperoptic is selling 1gbps for 30 quid a month whereas some people are paying the same price for 76mbps "80" personally i'd go for the 1gig one even if it was a few quid extra, stupid example "i know" as they don't operate in very many places but if your being offered higher speeds for the same price your paying you aint going to say no, i certainly wouldn't

It is interesting to look at the product spread for people like Gigaclear and Hyperoptic, some do opt for Gig, but most are on the lower speed tiers. A similar pattern with Virgin Media

Put at its simplest once you get past a speed where you run 2 or 3 HD streams the desire for more speed tends to be a lot smaller. This will change in time but even then many will opt for what is just enough or even elect to save some money and wait longer for stuff to arrive.

definitely, 1gbps is rather of the scale and would never use it. It is compelling though.

It's just like saying that NO car needs to exceed 70mph...!
Mine, according to spec, does >199mph.
Alas I never had the chance to try it, but I would like to...
Martin

In reply to a post by woodmass14:

definitely, 1gbps is rather of the scale and would never use it. It is compelling though.

Agreed.

We are down for FTTP which is still down to go live the end of July according to the emails from BTOR so about 8 days to go.

We are going with the full 330/30 due all 5 of us here all use the internet, whether its downloading a 50GB game, updates to several Windows, Mac or Linux boxes along with uploading media content online, watching Netflix, Amazon Prime, Sky On demand etc, our current 5Mbps just cannot cut it LOL.

The way I see it, to get the best speed for the buck it would be the 330/30 with BT (I think option 5, not checked recently), granted after the first year if 330/30 isn't being used as much we may drop down to a speed that ideally fits our needs.

It would be nice to be able to download 50GB in around 22m instead of around 22h 13m on our current 5Mbps connection.

Also I am a software/game developer which sometimes need to upload huge created data files and our 0.8Mbps upload speed just doesn't cut it either, granted FTTC speeds would of been great but with FTTP the 30Mbps upload speeds means it would either be done faster or been able to slow it down a little so not to take up the full upstream.

I have been reading up on G.FAST and wasn't fully sure if that was really for the FTTC upgrade to the pole, or if it would also be available for FTTP users, granted the combined 1Gbps would be nice.

TBH I think that is at the moment 1Gbps a bit of an over kill, not saying it would be fine in the future, but what I liked if I read it correctly was the feature to be able to customize your up and down stream on the fly so if you picked say a combined bandwidth of 400Mbps you could have it as 300Mbps down and 100Mbps up, so downloading would be still great for downloading content etc as well as being able to upload content rather fast as well.

But I have most probably misread stuff, but it still would of been nice though

Paul

BT no longer do 300/30 it is 300/19.

Go to bt.com.....enter a FTTP postcode and address .....click show packages.....scroll down to infinity 4 (300 Mb download speeds) .....click on full details........hovver over speed.

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Ian

I think that's a copy and paste error, people I know down my road that have had FTTP since 2011 have been getting around give or take 330/30 (or 300/30 if you want to call it that) and they defiantly don't get 20Mbps up.

I will question that once ours go live in about 8 days (crosses fingers)

Paul

I think the upload speed provisioned changed about 6 months ago; perhaps Mr S may have evidence of upload speeds on fttp.

In reply to a post by ian007jen:

I think the upload speed provisioned changed about 6 months ago; perhaps Mr S may have evidence of upload speeds on fttp.

I will try and get some the next time I see them pass my house.

Also if BT dropped the 30Mbps upload down to 20Mbps then wouldn't their dsl checker page reflect this change.

Paul

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/isp/bt/package/1480.html