I get 71Mbps down and 18Mbps upload at my local Tesco, on guest Wi-fi. ISP is BT and I'm assuming it's FTTC.I've worked at Tesco stores but never ran a speed test on the WiFi before
I end up not using them because they break certain sites (nothing naughty!) and prevent Adguard DNS from working. But I've gone ahead and ran some tests anyway.
Here's the public "Tesco WiFi" which is powered by BT:
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And for comparison, here's the "COLLEAGUE" version:
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At some stores, the Tesco WiFi captive portal will take a good 5 minutes to get through because of how slow the internet is. The Colleague WiFi is no better, only managing to get 1Mbps max in these cases. Ironically, this mostly happens in flagship stores.
Thats a disgrace for a service called "ultimate" I'm currently in a Premier Inn using my own Huawei 5G router. I refuse to pay for "ultimate" and the standard service is 1Mbps / 0.5Mbps.View attachment 15776Premier Inn "Ultimate" Wi-Fi in Nottingham City Center Chapel Bar hotel. It feels like they also block your phone signal too so you can't use that
To be fair, they don't offer them anymore and it's a legacy product..There's an O2 Boostbox in this store but it looks ancient.
Wi-Fi aside the whole hotel wasn't great tbh. Splurged a bit more for a "Premier Plus" room and there was holes in the wall, air con kept disabling itself (new? touch control panel that reception can disable/enable) and I had to walk down to reception for them to manually turn it back on about 15 times through out the time I was there as it was so warm in the room if it was switched off due to the sealed up windows. I thought Premier Inn was meant to be good but it changed my mind on them a bit.Thats a disgrace for a service called "ultimate" I'm currently in a Premier Inn using my own Huawei 5G router. I refuse to pay for "ultimate" and the standard service is 1Mbps / 0.5Mbps.
There's no excuse for this in 2024. I'll be leaving a comment in my Tripadv isor and Google reviews.