In reply to a post by alesarco:

According to the Hyperoptic guy who came to the block to do a survey, they'd come to the basement with fibre, install a router there, and then use Cat5e to each flat.

That's what I thought would happen as it's pretty pointless using fibre to provide 1Gbit when copper is just as capable and A LOT cheaper.

I hear the site survey has now been done and the building manager is just waiting for the results.

Anyone know any approx timescales?

I'd recommend Hyperoptic's service without hesitation. I've been connected for a couple of months and am really happy. Finger tapping whilst files download is a thing of the past ... even when my wife and daughter are using too!

Come on then, lets see your speed test

I'm just waiting. I've tried to encourage my neighbours to sign up and just hoping there'll be some good news soon. I'll be signing up as soon as I'm sent a link for it.

In reply to a post by locutus:

Come on then, lets see your speed test

I'm just waiting. I've tried to encourage my neighbours to sign up and just hoping there'll be some good news soon. I'll be signing up as soon as I'm sent a link for it.

I'm using Hyperoptic's 100 Mbps service. Here's the speed test:

Download Speed: 95859 kbps (11982.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 87254 kbps (10906.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 5 ms
Thu Feb 09 2012 08:50:06 GMT+0000 (GMT Standard Time)

It really is very, very impressive!

Very nice! Thanks. That is very impressive.

Hi Tommy45!

We will indeed be looking to expand to other towns and cities across the UK at some point during the coming year. We'd recommend that anyone looking to get our service should go to our website and register their interest. Areas where we have received the most interest requests are likely to be where we would look to expand to first, so there is some worth in doing this early on.

Hi Mike,

Once a survey has been conducted we'd usually get back to the building management within a week or so with a proposal. Which building do you live in?

Dave
Head of Customer Support
Hyperoptic Ltd

Hi Dave,

It's Westwood House, Lanterns Court, E14.

Hopefully it'll be good news!

Edited by locutus (Wed 15-Feb-12 16:55:52)

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 .