Broadband in Hull worse than on the Shetland Islands apparently. http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news...in-hull-worse-than-shetland-islands-1-7511774
Anyone surprised by this? Anyone.... Just hope the lightstream roll-out dramatically improves things.
Trying to find out when my area is to be upgraded (Better Broadband for Norfolk - BBfN = bye-bye for now), and I can't get access - band-speed inadequate! Ah - just got this: Can you get better broadband? No fibre upgrade planned, will be considered as part of District Council investment
The WiFi in my uni accommodation is better than the one my parents had at home and there's six of us using it on several devices.
KC Broadband is ****, my internet drops speed after 4 hours, although KC spokesman PLT has informed me that this isn't 'internet throttling' its still crap. My parents cant watch Netflix on an evening as their internet slows down too much. Lightstream is lovely though unless you are unlucky enough to be in one of the areas where it seems they can't be arsed to lay the cables
i've found kc broadband to be okay. when i started getting it 11 years ago i was getting 250kb/s. now i get about 6Mb/s, about 24 times faster. outages are rare. fyi, a mate of mine is currently part way through installing 55 new fibre boxes in the area, though mostly for places such as beverley, cottingham, willerby, etc.
rarely do i have a problem with Karoos BB , in the 12 yrs or so ive been a broadband customer , i think i could count problems on my fingers . Not bad going , considering most of my online friends outside the area have a constant struggle to get a decent connection and are swapping n changing providers all the bloody time - KC may be a monopoly , but it works fine enough.
I've just realised, that the effect of this could be a little awkward: No fibre upgrade planned, will be considered as part of District Council investment I live in one district council area, but our houses (7 of 'em) are at the end of a copper line that comes to us from another district council area.
Think we were one the first areas to get fibe with KC, we also got fibre from the exchange to the house we get about 50 Mbps download now though it can vary quite a bit.
We used to have speeds like that plus we kept getting the copper cable nicked so think that's why we were one of the first! !
A lot of the copper is underground, just emerging to be distributed from poles to houses. There's a cabinet in the village (half-mile away) and then copper from there to the sub-exchange (2.5 miles). Then it's copper 4.5 miles into the exchange in town.
About 30MB in Horsham, although ours went down to 0.8 MB because my wife was turning the box off every night to save electricity......
I'm on Lightstream, but the last few hundred yards is via copper and still reliably get 80 Mb download. When it's down it's down bad though - the worst lasted about 3 days
When we had a Sunday game, in the Prem, I'd get a stream up and then everybody and his brother would go online and the whole shebang would go from buffering/freezing to ... gone.
There's a fair bit in West Hull too. Around Anlaby High Road. It'll be everywhere eventually and we'll have by far the best broadband in the country while BT have to spend millions doing what KC are doing now, as soon as everyone starts needing more than 30-40Mbps. Until then, anyone with a problem on copper can get it fixed. There's nowhere in Hull which is totally out in the sticks so if you're getting an unusable service let them know and they'll help you sort it out. That really shouldn't happen. Nowt wrong with turning the router off.
