Broadband Internet & ISP Recommendations?

Does anyone want a NetGear N600 dual-band wireless router? I bought it 2013 and it was working when I replaced it recently. Otherwise it goes in the bin.

I'll have it if you're not too far from me. It'd definitely be an upgrade on my Plusnet one.

I'll send you a pm

I changed over to Zen about 3 months ago after someone on here recommended them.
It was all pretty easy, speeds have improved and the router they supplied (fritzbox) is much better than what I had before. So good that I no longer need to use the D Link mesh things we had.
I got a referral from someone here at the time.
DM me if you want the referral link. We both get a £10 gift voucher.

Virgin upgraded the area to M600. You need to buy their godawful TV package for that so for £1 extra a month than my M350, I’m now on M500.

Xbox games have never downloaded so fast.

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My EE 4G is now more or less permanently shite.

I cancelled EE, ordered Vodafone, and it's slower (although as it just arrived I can't say if it's as unreliable as the EE).

Three bars of reception (full signal) for the Vodafone 4G Gigacube:

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I admit, this adventure in wireless Internet has been a colossal disappointment.

Would 7mbs be enough to have multi-person Teams and Zoom calls?

Cheers

(multi-person in the sense that there are multiple people on the calls, not all using the same 7mb)

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I wouldn't have though it makes any difference how many people are on the call. All that stuff should be handled server-side and you just get the one video stream regardless.

My experience is that it's upload rather than download that defines how well video conferencing works, and 13 Mbps would be fine.

I'm returning my Vodafone GigaCube shortly - as it couldn't break 1Mbps upload reliably.

Cheers.

Hmm

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Have you tried positioning them in different places. My house had massive variations in speed (30Mbps or so) between various rooms with 4G.

This seems different.

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Are you still using 4g?

I'm just about to sell a Huawei 4g router and Poyning Omni antenna

I got a 5G router to test, and (if I stick it to the window pane, literally) then that's the speed rest result. I'll be cancelling the 4G service.

Finally ended our internet woes when Hyperoptic finally livened up for our building. Four years of toing and froing between freeholder, leaseholders, management company etc. Only got solved when we collectively bought the freehold to cut out the obstructive person.

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The best thing about Hyperoptic is the uncapped upload speed. Now that I've praised them watch me get an outage.

Download speeds for large files are impressive but the thing that really feels weird is clicking on a link to download a 200Mb file and it opening as if it was stored locally.

Impressive, that's 40 something Mbps faster than my Plusnet through a BT line.

Will you be cancelling your wired broadband?

Only got solved when we collectively bought the freehold to cut out the obstructive person

Why did they not want blazingly fast internet?!

I have not had wired broadband since the start of the year - only copper DSL available here, and it was typically ~6Mbps down and 0.1 up.

I am jealous! 😁

Why did they not want blazingly fast internet?!

They were trying to blackmail us....agree to the garages being demolished to build mews houses and we could have our fast internet.

Huge difference in speed, slow is on the bookshelf, fast is balanced on the frame of the window.

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