In reply to a post by FibreBubble:

'Most people' is a lot of people.

You've been on this broadband enthusiasts site for the best part of 20 years and you have happily chosen 35meg service for £7 less than a 150meg service. I'm sure you will continue to enjoy your circuit.

Most people are not broadband enthusiasts and maybe that's why take up of faster full fibre speeds is so poor.

20 years? Oh my, how time flies

Happily chosen? Not sure if I would go that far. I have done so because it is available now and if I waited until the provider of FTTP got into gear up here it would be costing me a fair bit more per month for God knows how long. I have said before, I would be paying around £38 a month out of contract and it could have been for months. Going to a provider that offers a monthly contract would be no cheaper to be honest or if they are, not by much, sure I could have gone to something like Now broadband which offers a 12 month contract for £20, but is it really worth the hassle?
So when plusnet offered me a 18-month contract for £22, I thought maybe that is the best way to go and to be honest I did decide pretty quick, which for me is amazing as i normally take ages to decide .
Sure, having 150Mb/s up and down would be nice, but it is not going to change my life and I doubt I would notice that much difference and maybe that is the same for many people, thinking why would they want to pay more money for something that would not make a rap of difference?

i understand what you are saying, I know people who have been using the internet for work for longer than 2020 and yes in this day and age, you certainly need some sort of decent speeds, but i chat to someone using Discord and their broadband is awful, lucky to get 10Mb/s, up and down and yet it works ok,, I am not saying that people should be happy with that speed, just saying it can work.

ADSL is more or less gone now, yes i know there are people who still use it, I know a household that still uses dial up, but not for much longer, setting them up with a mobile broadband in a few weeks time, since they can now get a decent 4G signal.

Uploads for me is pretty stable, around the 9Mb/s, it doesn't change really, download do now and again, but not by much, as i said above, I use discord and it seems fine, I have never used Zoom.
I am not saying there is anything wrong with going for a higher speed service and paying more, but work out if you really need to first and don't spend extra for no reason, unless they have money to burn.

If I am still here after the contract runs out with plusnet I will no doubt changed to zzoomm, but if things go ok in the new year I may move and if I do then we will have to look at options that are available there, which at the moment is only FTTC. 18 months is a fair bit away, anything can happen.

I'm sure a "broadband enthusiast", whatever one of those is, can make their mind up as to what they require in their broadband speed.

Prior to the pandemic we were happy with our 15 / 0.8 mbps adsl service.

For all those having a go at peoples predictions.....Hindsight is a wonderful thing!

In reply to a post by broadband66:

I'm sure a "broadband enthusiast", whatever one of those is, can make their mind up as to what they require in their broadband speed.

Prior to the pandemic we were happy with our 15 / 0.8 mbps adsl service.

For all those having a go at peoples predictions.....Hindsight is a wonderful thing!

y,es, in one way it would be nice to know the future, but in another way no.

Well, I think I made the right choice in staying with plusnet for a while, the maps used to say spring 2022 when fibre would come here, now it is saying spring/summer 2022. I was chatting to an engineer on the way home from work, and he told me they are a bit behind, due to lack of staff and other problems.
At the end of the day it is a big project, bringing fibre here, I know Hereford is not large compared to some places, but it is still a fair size.