Afternoon all, hope you have had a good weekend.... Just a quick question..... Does anyone use either Pure Broadband or Wisperbroadband in Hull??? If so how are you finding the service, average speeds on an evening weekend??? I am currently with Karoo ASDL copper broadband, not in an area that is due for upgrade to lightstream anytime soon, and despite over a month of KC looking into problems in the area, if I get over 2Mbps I am lucky, today it has been under 1, which is simply not fit for purpose. Therefore I need to change, and Pure or Wisper seem to be the frontrunners. Any help/advice greatly appreciated, cheers.
Can't be bothered to get into the full debate of Adsl vs wireless and all that but HDM had something the other day about a big acceleration of the lightstream rollout. Might be worth hanging on a month or two to see what that involves and whether it's you. 90,000 more homes by the end of next year I think it was.
Yeah, I saw that, rolling out to 90,000 homes will take some manpower and time. Not sure how long I can persevere with KC though, its truly awful. Some of the other providers are only monthly contracts, so possibly a stop gap between now and fibre install.
My broadband/phone/line rental is a bundle from Axis Broadband. Their office is in the Shirethorn Centre (the old Bladons?). You can't get it in Hull - cos of KC I guess? I find them OK, but as I don't have fibre, things are pretty s-l-o-w.
Pretty sure they do resell KC's lines in Hull. Might be just to businesses or something. I definitely saw Axis Telecom a lot when I worked for KC.
You have my sympathy. We moved to the Sproatley area in 2013, the only option at the time was BT, it was literally slower than dial-up! I had BT engineers out several times as speed tests were saying that I was getting less that 0.5mbps, they tried to solve it but couldn't, the engineers told me that if they could get it to 0.75mbps that they would be providing, laughably, their legal obligation of a 'fit for purpose' service. They never achieved those dizzy heights and I left them shortly, and thankfully, afterwards as KC laid fibre and began to provide their Lightstream service.
i put my postcode in on the kcom site last night and it said my area was scheduled to be done before the end of may. they're installing new boxes around the city. the 90,000 homes won't be getting fibre to their doorsteps.
When I was looking I couldn't get any real info on Pure, other than what they told me. Ask them what speed they would guarantee at your postcode. The other option was Connexin who do a cheap service. Both are about £20 per month. I ended up getting Lightstream though. Edit: connexin max residential was 250gb which wasn't enough. Think Pure was a lot more.
Out of interest what's that based on? I don't know either way but I'd be surprised if they moved away from the Fibre to the Premises model now. The HDM article isn't definitive but implies it will still be the ultrafast FTTP service that's been deployed elsewhere in Hull.
My internet in Lincoln is rapid. When wired into my Xbox One the download speed is 34Mb/s. KC really is garbage.
My BT service in Nottingham was about 500kbps, which Sky got up towards 1Mbps. With Virgin it's now about 100Mbps. As far as I know, those that get Lightstream can beat this hands down. Unfortunately it all depends on the cable in the ground, and putting new cable in costs money.
If I was 'only' getting 34mbps from my Lightstream service I'd be royally pissed off. You have my sympathy
It's not lightstream and I don't pay for it. It's part of my uni accommodation and it's still 10 times faster than KC in East Hull.
I didn't say that it was. I'm not in east Hull but I'm to the east of Hull and 34mbps certainly isn't ten times faster than my speeds. Isn't your broadband cost included in your university fees/landlord fees, or did you mean that you don't pay for it in so much as mum and/or dad do? There's no free lunches.
