Impressive stats, how much does the service cost?

In reply to a post by New_Londoner:

Impressive stats, how much does the service cost?

I'm paying £37.50 a month, including phone line, for the 100 Meg service. The set up fee (£40 I think) was waived.

Here's a link to Hyperoptic's prices for other services:

https://www.hyperoptic.com/web/guest/home#3

Hi dustofnations

Whilst we anticipate and fully expect average usage per customer to be much, much higher than on more standard broadband connections, it will take a long time before our usage grows to be more than that of other networks when you look at it as a whole. With the general adoption of fibre services in the UK (and elsewhere around the world), clearly networks will need to continue to upgrade to cope with the demands of users. It may be that the internet in general slows up in peak hours, but we don�t expect this and will actively monitor our own network to avoid significant slowdowns in peak times.

Happy to discuss this with you in more detail if you want to contact me directly,

Dave

In reply to a post by dustofnations:

Hi,

I'd be extremely interested to know what your peering arrangements are given that the entire LINX exchange has a peak transfer rate of 1.161 Tbps. Clearly it will only take a very small number of customers concurrently using gigabit connections (at anywhere near full speed, or even 30% maximal speed) to produce a deluge of traffic.

Do you anticipate that, much like Japan and S. Korea fibre, the connections will be massively slower during daytime when contention is higher?

I suppose this all leads onto the question of what you expect the contention ratio will be, given such wide connections and such reasonable prices .

You made me think ...

Imagine a world where we all need 1 Gig per second, every second. I wonder what spectacular technology we�ll be using? Maybe stuff like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38&vq=...

Any other suggestions anyone? (Apologies for going off topic!)

Hopefully, with companies such as Hyperoptic pushing the boundaries, we�ll get there sooner rather than later!

Any ideas about business premises?

The company I work for is looking for a good, fast & reliable connection so we can replicate our servers in real-time down to another site.

The problem is we are based in Northampton and I see you only seem to be working in London which is a shame as we would be quite willing to pay good money to get this sorted !

Hello MartinBen

Many thanks for your interest in Hyperoptic!

At the moment we're focussing on premises in London however the good news is that we plan to roll out to other cities. Please register your interest via our website www.hyperoptic.com so we have your details to keep you informed.

Best wishes

Sunita
Hyperoptic Ltd.

Have you looked at Ethernet pricing?

Echoing Mr Saffron's point, have you looked at Ethernet? If you reaslly want to have guaranteed back-up of data then a contended service like broadband is not really the best option, far better to use an uncontended Ethernet link. This costs more but at least you will have confidence your data is prperly backed-up and not lost because another user was downloading the internet at a critical moment before you main servers failed!

Would agree with this and you can get some good prices for EAD dependant on where you are

Virgin Business and Daisy are just 2 possibilities

I just received a letter about Hyperoptic and it sounded really good, so I visited the website to find out more.

Well, there's a reason why they're so cheap... Look at their website and you'll see all images still bear the watermarks of istockphoto and shutterstock... That means they haven't paid any fees (basicaly they've stolen the photos!) and even worse they've really badly photoshopped them in an attempt to remove the watermarks.

If they can't afford the royalties of buying 10 stock photos (normally about £1-£5 each), then I can't see how their business will survive more than a few months.

To avoid any trolls saying I'm from Virgin's marketing dept. I'll say that I've already emailed Hyperoptic and posted on the only two forums I found some meaningful discussion about their services.

It sounded too good to be true and I won't be signing up as this to me speaks heaps about their attitude - I'm a small business owner and I wouldn't want anyone stealing my products like they do. Just wish Virgin would come over here a bit quicker.

Thanks,
Anthony