Fastr Broadband quietly launch 8Gbps full fibre package in City of York UK
Alternative network ISP Fastr Broadband (formerly UK Fibre Networks), which has deployed their own Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the city centre of York (England), appears to have recently launched a new 8Gbps symmetric speed capable package for consumers. At our last check a few short months ago they only offered a 2Gbps plan as their top tier.
The new package is naturally subject to the usual advertising rules, which means that they actually promote it as offering average speeds of 7Gbps (8Gbps peak). New customers of this package can expect to pay £119.99 per month for the service across a 24-month term, which comes bundled with unlimited usage, a Wi-Fi 7 router and a promise of no in-contract price rises.
The catch of course is that you can only take this if you’re actually covered by Fastr’s network in York.
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Wow – ain’t no one going to pay for that – even £99 is a lot on a 24 month term!
I assume it comes with a very special router and a commercial-grade 10Gbps infrastructure switch. Otherwise, you can’t really use it!
Anyone paying for and taking 8Gbps likely will not be using any ISP supplied equipment, even now still takes a lot to make use of it, I am on 2Gbps (YouFibre) with a full 10G fibre local network and still rarely max it out.
Youfibre 8Gbit here. You get a youfibre hub pro with a 10G copper port, it will quite happily do 8Gbit no problem. The only reason I don’t use it is I just don’t trust random boxes that I don’t have control of on my network and probably never gets updated (I admit that’s an assumption on my part, but how often do ISPs really update router fw?)
Ace. Another GB service for the low dwelling area, some businesses & the Harry Potter shops. The suburbs already get Gb, & yet as a WFH IT person copying GB around & a family using all the streaming services, I’m made to make do with 56Mb inside the ring road. Suppliers should be forced to roll it out to all & not miss the 5 or so houses off the main road. Even villages get faster speed than us.