Im not doubting the speed, but the speed of a wireless connection is limited by your router! My wired speed is around that, but I won't get anywhere near that on a wireless connection.
do it if your in the area its offered - best thing i've done and the customer service was 1st class - luckily i'm in kingswood and we were one of the first to be offered it - all free upgrade, with free router and installation - i think im paying just £5 more than i was before as i'm on the home bundle packaged with my phone all for £40 p/m.
do it if your in the area its offered - best thing i've done and the customer service was 1st class - luckily i'm in kingswood and we were one of the first to be offered it - all free upgrade, with free router and installation - i think im paying just £5 more than i was before as i'm on the home bundle package with my phone all for £40 p/m.
i assure you that screenshot is from a wireless setup. my router is within 1 ft of the box outside my house and my laptop is in the next room about 25 ft max away
Speeds beyond about 5Mbps only really matter if you're streaming video. I get 13Mbps (ish) at home but at work I'm about 10 metres from the data centre everyone on KC connects to, so the speed is ridiculous but I don't notice any real difference in terms of browsing simple pages. As for BT Sport, don't know much about it but it sounds like a load of **** to me. Just makes live football less and less available to normal people. How many different subscriptions can people really be expected to say? People round here moan about KC but honestly we're really lucky. The speeds, reliability and service with the national companies is nowhere near as good. The deceit about prices with other companies is ridiculous too. Excluding the line rental from the price as if that's optional? **** off. I'm biased of course because I work for KC but that's my opinion.
well from my experience... karoo is actually probably the best isp in the country.. once the whole city gets fibre optic we shall be laughing.. trust me
It's being made available to new areas very soon. Might be a few years yet before everything is fibre, but it'll be much earlier than BT that's for sure.
Kingswood, Greatfield and some others already have it. Newland Ave, Hessle Rd, Brough and Hessle to follow soon. They've picked the areas that have the ****test existing service to upgrade basically. City centre I imagine will be okay already (depends on distance from Telephone House because that will be your local phone exchange) so it might be a while before they lay fibre there. Mind you there's a lot of business who'd pay for it so maybe it will be in the City centre. Put your postcode in here to find out, and if it says no then register for updates: http://lightstream.kc.co.uk/
Fibre optic was installed in North and South Cave years ago, it's also in my office in Newbald, I assume all the West Hull villages have it already?
yeah my connection is about 12-13 or even 14+ non peak times, wereas in those areas it's like 5 max i believe, but in terms of customer service and reliability karoo is top notch, only thing i'd love to improve is the download limit
Is that with KC lines? The caves have some BT lines as well as KC don't they? Also businesses sometimes get it earlier than residential lines. KC only started rolling out mainstream residential fibre lines a year ago. What is your download limit? You might be on an old package. You can get it over 300GB or even unlimited if you like.
Maybe I haven't got what I thought I'd got, but I'm with KC and they dug all the paths up two or three years ago and I was pretty sure they'd installed fibre optic cables. If I plug directly into my main socket all downloads are absolutely instant, with it run round the house and the wifi running off a secondary box(that seems to reduce speeds by 90%) it's still okay for everything but streaming video.
