Broadband Internet & ISP Recommendations?

I've got instructions of anyone fancies losing an hour or two of their lives

can i have some instructions please? I suspect some of my nodes are behaving and wondering if this is the cause.. thanks! :)

could you send over too? the router they gave me seems ok, but girlfriend's one is a different model and seems flaky

Feel like I'm going to die a Virgin. customer.

Aching for fiber and to be paying something sensible. Don't want to renegotiate my contract with virgin which is at the same price it ended (75 a month for 250mb) even if it means a lower price as I don't want to be tied in to another 24 months when cityfibre/giganet are working on the neighbouring roads as I type. (Though I can't see any roadworks planned for my street for the next 12 months..)

Don’t be disheartened just yet; when Community Fibre did my street, their contractor turned up and blew the fibre from a manhole at the end of the road to the telegraph pole in about an hour, without disturbing a nugget of asphalt. Another team then followed a week later to install their kit onto the pole.

Went for BT business fibre as I still have 9 months left of my bt contract.

Still waiting for an install date, what a useless shower of cunts and he was me thinking they had changed.

I was in the same position and then got surprise Zen fttp launch two weeks before virgin contract ended. Have faith!

I realise since I wrote that 12 days ago I've had wild speeds (averaging 4mb download - instead of the 350 down I'm paying for), disconnects all day every day despite 'we can't see any problems, must be end user idiocy' from their online chat and call centres.

I've followed instructions on router resets, have both connected direct over ethernet and straight into router. They say the router is fine. I can't afford a new one at the moment to truly test that theory. I've seen lots of other complaints online saying similar issues for the past week or more.

Giganet gives me "due to connect your street any time between now and january 2026"

Is there any way of tracking down a firmer steer on connection dates? If it's going to be two years I'd just as soon get Sky or someone rather than suffer through any more of this.

Is there any way of tracking down a firmer steer on connection dates?

Simply put; no.

I'm waiting for BT to upgrade my cabinet to FTTP. It's been a perpetual 12-18 months away since about 2021.

OK, fuck it, I'll just go with whatever's cheap as a stop gap. It can only be better than paying virgin 70+ quid a month to be stressed out and without internet.

Although - they've just changed status to 'looks like there might be a problem in your area'.

Further lol - using vodafone as a hot spot from my pixel to upload this client work - 20mb down, 1mb up - feels amazing.

I was going to suggest, considered a 5g router? (If you have 5g coverage). I’ve had a 4g router for years and it’s been solid. Just a bit slow

Community Fibre 1Gb ordered yesterday morning, installation due on Sat. Seemed to be just one available slot so may have got lucky with a cancellation.

Currently have a Netgear RBR40 plus single (wired) satellite and was considering whether to stick with them or pay the extra £5/month for their hardware. Opted for the latter mainly cos the Netgear kit is five years old. Am also still hoping a loft conversion might happen in the coming months, and figured that adding an extra satellite would mean having to completely replace the Netgear stuff. That's assuming CF would give me an extra one if necessary.

Been reading about CGNAT which it looks like I'll be subjected to. Don't have any need for a static IP, but is there anything else I should be concerned about in this regard?

Unless you’re hosting services on kit running in your house, CGNAT won’t affect you.

The Community Fibre router is generally a Linksys MX4200. This can mesh with lots of other Linksys stuff so you're probably better just buying nodes yourself rather than paying extra to CF for them. There's some posts a few pages back about doing it (not from me, I'm using Unifi stuff as I already had it).

Worth having a think about where you want the wire to come in, they were pretty accommodating when they did mine (I wanted it in the loft).

CGNAT screwed up a few things like Plex for me and resolving it was a bit of a faff (more due to the learning curve, it would probably take me about an hour to sort now). There was also something else that it screwed up unexpectedly but I can't remember what that was now.

anyone using 5G broadband from anyone? any recs? I already have unifi gear so would want to use it as a modem only.

my house can only get over the phone line connection (no fibre, no virgin etc) and our speed has gone from ~60 to ~35 and no one can seem to fix it, nor did switching to a new provider fix it either

we have a Three 5G router. we are on the 6th floor with line of sight to 4 5G transmitters.
the router wifi is not very strong in our flat with concrete and blockwork walls so use it in modem mode with a linksys mesh system. currently getting 450mb sometimes it’s more but never seems to dip below 250.
it’s cheap at £20 plus vat and that’s for a rolling one month contract. the app is pretty basic and getting the modem mode going was fiddly but found the info online (i’m not a IT person).
only outage was the big one that took down most of the system a few months ago.
We now have community fibre in the building but i’m in no rush to swap.
If you put your postcode in on Three website it may not show you the 5g router as being available if they think you do not have coverage, my old flat up the road is technically out of range but I used it there with slower speeds, they do like to be near a window though.
the new router might be better, mine is the older square one with the black top.

Have you seen the Skynet/Elon megalomaniac satellite deals they have on a refurbished neural transmitter? think it’s £70 a month but you get decent speeds and pay for space exploration and alien contact at the same time.

I considered it briefly but came to the conclusion I'd rather go without internet access than contribute to that cunt.

quelle sur-fucking-prise

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68093374

Community Fibre successfully installed on Sat, routers are Linksys MX5600. Biggest problem was the child node being slow AF, but that turned out to be caused by a cable which can't even manage 100Mb despite supposedly being cat5e. In the bin now, obviously.

Had some weird issue with phone and tablet where signal was strong and chrome seemed fine, but many other Android apps stopped working completely. Google suggested that was an IPv6 thing so I messed about with the router settings and despite (I think) being back where I started it seems fine now. Touch wood.

Cancelling Virgin was much less hassle than I was expecting. Only on hold for a couple of mins, and despite being asked why I was leaving and whether I wanted to discuss a new deal they were perfectly compliant.

Cancelling Virgin was much less hassle than I was expecting. Only on hold for a couple of mins, and despite being asked why I was leaving and whether I wanted to discuss a new deal they were perfectly compliant.

Fuck me sideways.

What time did you call Virgin? Got to do the dance soon..

Around 4 on Sat afternoon. Good luck!