Most people would consider 'I don't pay for it' either being free or someone else paying for it for you. You never cleared that one up. Do you play FIFA or/and Football Manager on your X Box. Are you any good?
Well, technically my uni loans and grants pay for it through my accommodation and my loans and grants are paid for by the taxpayer, so I guess you're paying for my broadband. Thanks.
That's about as accurate as saying that you don't pay for your broadband. Do you want a bigger shovel?
i know someone installing the new boxes. not from the area. he says kc is miles ahead of bt. i don't know all the details, but as someone said, 90,000 homes is a lot, so the connection from these to premises can be done over time. the bits in my house are still copper. i'll ask him next time i see him.
most companies quote in Mbps. bits, not bytes. the kcom website does. i bet you're not getting 34MBps. what isp is it? http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...k-home-broadband-and-mobile-isps-q1-2015.html
Extra day off work today....so allocated some time to look at my options regarding crap broadband. The recent reviews of the companies in my original post aren't great, a lot of people seem to have switched to them and swamped the service, and getting very slow speeds at peak times. Also they have high installation costs up front. Also the T&C's regarding time to repair faults, i.e. 5 days does not inspire me with confidence. However.....I did have an interesting conversation with EE in St Stephens today. Using their Opsrey 2 device, they now offer super fast 4G Wi Fi in Hull, actively promoting it due to the common KC problems. They have been investing heavily in the area, all their "masts" in Hull are connected with fibre optic cabling (or something along those lines!!!) They have a very accurate postcode checker, and I should receive 16-24Mbps. I know this is still poor compared to you lucky lightstream or non Hull residents, but compared to what I get now on KC its a big improvement. As an existing EE contract phone customer, I could get it for around £25 a month for up to 40GB, which is adequate looking at my KC usages. This would save me £15 a month and eliminate the need for a landline. There is no upfront cost, just goes on your monthly bill. You also get a two week trial period, if you are not happy at all with the service or performance, you can return it with no costs involved whatsoever within 14 days. They are stocked at EE in St Stephens, so might take them up on the 2 week trial. Certainly seems an option until KC get my path dug up and fibre optic installed. Gotta be better than this please log in to view this image
There's no way you're getting 34 Megabytes. With all due respect you clearly don't understand this stuff quite as well as you think you do. KC are indeed miles ahead because of the Fibre to the Premises. If they stopped doing that it'd be a shame, I doubt they will though. I did hear something about BT deciding relatively recently to start doing the same on their network, and poaching someone who was in charge of the fibre stuff at KC to lead their rollout.
I'll screenshot it when I get back but last time I checked the download speed on my Xbox One was 292.84mbps.
saw my informant this evening. my head is suffering from a glut of acronyms, but i'll give it a shot. his company (he's doing the actual installing) is in the process of installing 55 cabinets around the city and local villages. these take fibres from the exchange. it's all at gigabits/second speeds. after the cabinets it's back to copper, but new tech in the cabinets makes better/faster use of the copper wires to homes. there is currently no fibre to homes (i didn't ask about businesses), but kcom will probably (he may have put that differently) be buying stuff from his company to let fibre runs be taken from the new cabinets down surrounding streets/roads/etc. he thinks it may cost homeowners a moderate fee to connect to these. hope that's useful info.
I can confirm that your last statement is indeed 100% true. BTW there is fibre to the property available in Hull for both business and residential customers but not in all areas.
Yet there was a map of average Broadband speeds in the papers yesterday, yellow areas the slowest, red ones the highest. Guess which one Hull was in. Slower than the East Riding. And way behind Grimsby which for some reason has one of the highest average download speeds. SKY upgraded our area to fibre but it still has copper to,the premises. But at £7.50 with unlimited downloads and a speed fast enough for anything I want to do I am quite happy with it.
As the guy above suggests, that's not right. They've been installing fibre to the Premises for residential and business for ages. By the end of next year it'll be available to 75% of the network and it's literally the best kind of connection known to man. I dunno what your mate is working on or for whom but a lot of that is incorrect with regards to KC.
If you want to know whether there is fibre in your area check out the pole feeding your house. If there's a second connection box(PMC) half way up the pole just above the steel cover then there is fibre to that pole. If you are fed directly via an underground cable then you and the surrounding properties will have a new black or grey box(CTU) on your property just above where the grey duct appears out of the ground. This is FTTP with no copper part to any of the service....100% fibre optic.
I had a look at EE and it says weak indoor coverage where I am so I have no options at all with no lightstream in sight, even Netflix has been cutting out for me recently and that was the only thing I could rely on usually
This is way too confusing for me I've read the thread and understand very little of it. All I know is my Internet is ****. I'm moving soon so no point trying to sort it now. When I move I will be renting for a few months until our new house is ready. I'd like the new house to have decent Internet but if you ask people everyone seems an expert but often say different things.
That's very true. If you're based round here, certain areas are streets ahead (pardon the pun) of others. Victoria Dock, most of Beverley and Brough/Elloughton, the Bev Rd and Newland ave areas all have excellent coverage. It's less common in East and North Hull.
