ojacobs3
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Hi, i'm in the market for a new broadband line. Currently I am on virgin media (the 362? Mb/s package) and am a bit unhappy as i seem to get fairly high latency and fairly unstable (high jitter?). (though to be fair mine is much better than many people i see in the VM forum). I recently got pushed over the edge is me and a friend were trying to play a fighting game online. But it was lagging like crazy, we both tested our connections and while his ping to the same server was sitting at a stable 7ms, mine was 16 min 50 something max and jumping around madly inbetween.
I am probably more interested (slightly) in a stable, low latency connection (though i will miss the raw speed if i have to give some up. Unfortunately providers like hyperoptic + cityfibre etc aren't available to me)
I've been trying to compare the various Openreach options but have been left a little bit confused:
BT: I have been told conflicting things. I was told that i could get FTTP with a range of 137-138 Mb but also told that i could only get G.Fast with the same speed. I'm inclined to believe the second as the person who insisted i would be getting FTTP was clearly copying stock chat messages and then doubling down. On the phone offered £39.99 a month
EE: According to EE i will get 300Mb/s down with a guaranteed minimum speed of 280Mb/s. I confirmed this with them on the phone as it doesn't quite make sense to me that i would get a faster connection from another provider from BT (regardless of whether the BT connection is FTTP or G.Fast, surely it would be the fastest Openreach provider?) £47 a month online with some kind of cashback
Zen: A similar story to EE. Confirmed multiple times that their estimate of 300MB/s down is correct. "it's what openreach says" £59.99 a month
ID: Says G fast is amber status so they can't tell me what i can get until they've put an order in to openreach (though he said he was able to check after this and the estimate is 330MB/s down and i believe 40 up)
I believe my exchange is the woolwich exchange. It's about 500M from me but according to A&A.net the line length from the exchange is approximately 1400M.
I suppose what i'm looking for is some advice on what ISP i should choose. I have read good and bad things about all of them (as i suppose i should expect) so i'm a bit stuck. I'm also very confused as to why other providers can seemingly offer faster speeds than BT, or are they just being conservative (or is it a commercial decision to cap G.Fast/ultrafast 1 to 160MB/s max)
It might also be useful to see my BQM from thinkbroadband, should i expect any improvement to this moving to G.Fast or is G.Fast a similarly noisy technology:
I am probably more interested (slightly) in a stable, low latency connection (though i will miss the raw speed if i have to give some up. Unfortunately providers like hyperoptic + cityfibre etc aren't available to me)
I've been trying to compare the various Openreach options but have been left a little bit confused:
BT: I have been told conflicting things. I was told that i could get FTTP with a range of 137-138 Mb but also told that i could only get G.Fast with the same speed. I'm inclined to believe the second as the person who insisted i would be getting FTTP was clearly copying stock chat messages and then doubling down. On the phone offered £39.99 a month
EE: According to EE i will get 300Mb/s down with a guaranteed minimum speed of 280Mb/s. I confirmed this with them on the phone as it doesn't quite make sense to me that i would get a faster connection from another provider from BT (regardless of whether the BT connection is FTTP or G.Fast, surely it would be the fastest Openreach provider?) £47 a month online with some kind of cashback
Zen: A similar story to EE. Confirmed multiple times that their estimate of 300MB/s down is correct. "it's what openreach says" £59.99 a month
ID: Says G fast is amber status so they can't tell me what i can get until they've put an order in to openreach (though he said he was able to check after this and the estimate is 330MB/s down and i believe 40 up)
I believe my exchange is the woolwich exchange. It's about 500M from me but according to A&A.net the line length from the exchange is approximately 1400M.
I suppose what i'm looking for is some advice on what ISP i should choose. I have read good and bad things about all of them (as i suppose i should expect) so i'm a bit stuck. I'm also very confused as to why other providers can seemingly offer faster speeds than BT, or are they just being conservative (or is it a commercial decision to cap G.Fast/ultrafast 1 to 160MB/s max)
It might also be useful to see my BQM from thinkbroadband, should i expect any improvement to this moving to G.Fast or is G.Fast a similarly noisy technology: