I’m not going to hold my breath too much, because twice we were supposed to have been upgraded to FTTP, and both times BT/OpenReach quietly cancelled it as the government changed how they were going to subsidise it. But I just checked the Project Gigabit website and it looks like they might have a plan for Hampshire!
I’m fortunate as in I have an ISP that (a) gives me a static IP address (b) doesn’t have restrictive T&Cs, so I can run my hobby-related servers at home. That’s really the biggest benefit of fibre for me - enough upstream that I can self-host my servers.
It’s great that speeds at this level are finally becoming available outside of leased lines.
The big benefit to everyone, is that in those locations providers signed up to VCOP have to make sure half that speed is always available to avoid handback.
More capacity in reserve, better reliability for everyone.
It’s nice to see the option becoming available for when it’s needed, but the use cases must be incredibly niche right now, or people get suckered onto it through ISP marketing.
In a house of 5 people we were rarely maxing out our 80/20, and only upgraded to 300/50 because it was the same price.
yes most people don’t need it now, but then again most people didn’t need 80/20 that long ago, as bandwidth goes up, use cases will go up. For me full fibre upgrade will be for more up-bandwidth more than anything.
Man I wish openreach would somehow upgrade, I miss having Virgins speeds but their custom service was shocking and their engineering shocking, chopped my cable and couldn’t repull it after 4 months…
FTTP is amazing, but I’d take stable openreach 80/20 over virgin / 4G fallback
That’s what I ended up doing for a while until FTTP arrived.
VM’s “super” hub and backhaul made a 100mbit connection feel worse than my subsequent 40mbit VDSL one.
My company is remote first and I work with so many people who despite having fantastic speeds at the demarcation point rely on connecting from a shitty AP three stories and 8 walls away.
The first thing I did when getting FttP is run Ethernet from the router to my computer.
I fully expect people to sign up for this, then realise that their internal networking is only gigabit.
Thoughts and prayers for the firstline helpdesk people. We’re 110/20, and it only really tanks when someone is downloading from steam (and I’ve turned off QoS).
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