The End of the Satellite Dish

4wd said:
Just this morning someone was crowing on BBC about 95% can now get superfast BB, should try coming out to places more than a mile from any cabinets.
Another round of work has just been announced with no improvement planned so not sure how they are going to get to 100% by 2020 when it takes about two years from earliest stages.
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I'm as skeptical as you.

About 7 or 8 years ago BT announced BT Infinity was coming to our area. The suggest date for completion, at that time, was either 2013 or 2014 and BT were asking for expressions of interest.
It never arrived and now there is no where on the BT website (which is the worse website I have ever used) to express and interest and BT have no plans for Infinity here.
Here, BTW, is about 7 miles from Trafalgar Square and we are less 1/4 mile from the cabinet and about 1 mile form the exchange.

Dave
 
4wd said:
Just this morning someone was crowing on BBC about 95% can now get superfast BB, should try coming out to places more than a mile from any cabinets.
Another round of work has just been announced with no improvement planned so not sure how they are going to get to 100% by 2020 when it takes about two years from earliest stages.
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Isn't that claim based on a rather generous interpretation of 'super fast' and a percentage of the population, without any adjustment for population density and rural areas?
 
gman said:
Sky might do what Virgin current does in that the broadband for the TV comes down a different line from the internet so they don't effect each other and also explains why my Virgin TV when I had it still worked (most of the time) whilst at the same time my Internet didn't (almost all of the time). It was pretty rare for both to be down at the same time so one way or another you could always watch something either on Virgin Box, Streaming via Smart TV app or on a computer/tablet.
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Not sure I would like the added complexity of running two internet connections, especially if it was reliant on having to use an isp supplied router - i would never touch an isp that forced me to use their own (usually rubbish) router
 
chrism_scotland said:
I wouldn't be surprised to see it offered only to Sky Fibre Customers, similar to Sky Q Currently, BT do the same thing BT TV only available to BT Broadband customers.
Its quite smart I guess to try and get folk to have everything with them.
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My OH has had sky q for a while now and we have never had (and never will have) a broadband connection supplied by sky
 
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boliston said:
My OH has had sky q for a while now and we have never had (and never will have) a broadband connection supplied by sky
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Ah no worries, when it was first rolled out it was Sky Fibre customers only, that was possibly a marketing ploy more than anything!
 
boliston said:
Not sure I would like the added complexity of running two internet connections, especially if it was reliant on having to use an isp supplied router - i would never touch an isp that forced me to use their own (usually rubbish) router
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I think it's Netgear routers but they are crap and they can also be secondhand I believe. Proper pain being restricted to theirs..
 
gman said:
I think it's Netgear routers but they are crap and they can also be secondhand I believe. Proper pain being restricted to theirs..
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You can get others to work with it, swapped my standard one out for a much better Netgear one.
 
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