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[Alzi]

CityFibre Start £42m FTTP Broadband Build in South Tyneside

Network operator CityFibre has today announced that they've finally entered the construction phase of their £42 million project to deploy a new 10Gbps capable

www.ispreview.co.uk

Have you checked with Grain? Otherwise looks like it will be virgin or cityfibre

Yea just checked, sadly looks Virgin will be the only realistic option this year but hopefully soon there will be more choice.

 

[changingman]

We're on the VM + O2 deal, "negotiated" when we moved house in December. Think it's around £110 for cinema, sky sports and TNT plus 1GB broadband.

Wouldn't be a terrible deal if we actually used the O2 SIM but we both have better deals than that already.

18 month deal, hopefully YouFibre will live here by the time of expiry. I've seen loads of vans out and about, including on my street(!) but a postcode check yields blanks.

 

[ThatFragranceGuy]

We're on the VM + O2 deal, "negotiated" when we moved house in December. Think it's around £110 for cinema, sky sports and TNT plus 1GB broadband.

Wouldn't be a terrible deal if we actually used the O2 SIM but we both have better deals than that already.

18 month deal, hopefully YouFibre will live here by the time of expiry. I've seen loads of vans out and about, including on my street(!) but a postcode check yields blanks.

Email them at hello@youfibre.com and give them your postcode and they should be able to tell you if, and if so, when they will be covering your street

Ours changed to coming soon a month before it went live. You can also use think broadband isp map (Google it) select the fttp isp button and tick the "Netomnia" option and it'll show you where they've built in your area

 

[dibble]

Email them at hello@youfibre.com and give them your postcode and they should be able to tell you if, and if so, when they will be covering your street

Ours changed to coming soon a month before it went live. You can also use think broadband isp map (Google it) select the fttp isp button and tick the "Netomnia" option and it'll show you where they've built in your area

Got a quote off you fibre yesterday they are already trying to call me and sending me emails. I gave a false number as i suspected this might be the case.

 

[ThatFragranceGuy]

Got a quote off you fibre yesterday they are already trying to call me and sending me emails. I gave a false number as i suspected this might be the case.

Yeah id expect anything like that to generate contact. I always use iCloud email and justly a random email address and phone number

 

[Andy_W]

If some people are really miffed with VM and BT, and they want to save some money, then they might be able to get away with mobile broadband if they're in a very good 4g or 5g area. If doing this it would be worth getting a sim for each provider and doing a signal test though, as the online signal map things don't mean much.

It likely won't work with good 3g areas though, as 3g isn't as fast as the old 3g, as most of the bandwidth has been shifted over to 4g or 5g etc.

This market is cheap and it's competitive, as the providers can't hold you to ransom.

If you're not WFH, online gaming or dealing with large files in the cloud, all day every day, then it would probably be good enough for 99% of the time, which is good enough. A lot of people go for a connection much faster than they need, but watching a bit of YouTube or Netflix is really not that demanding even at HD. It may not cut it with UHD, but there's not a great deal of UHD content, and people largely watch UHD on devices which don't even make good use of it (waste of data).

When I lived in Stockton over a decade ago, me and two housemates got by tethering to a phone stuck to one of the upstairs windows to get the best signal. It ended up about 10x better than the crappy 2Mbps landline connection we had, we ended up doing that for months until we moved.

When I moved house recently (poor mobile signal area) I managed to WFH for a month with little issue just relying on a 2/5 bar 4g signal, from a daft little mobile wifi dongle in the loft. I use a fair bit of data too, and have a lot of cloud storage etc, so if it worked for me, it will easily handle loads of others in simpler circumstances.

Both instances I've tried worked quite well, and that was in no way using the right mobile Wi-Fi gear for the task.

There's other options like satellite internet too, through companies like starlink, but that's a bit drastic in most circumstances in the UK.

 

[Andy_W]

Just out of interest, do people actually realise that with their "100 Meg" connection, that they're not actually going to be able to download a 100MB file in 1 second? Do they know why? Do they think the line is just running slower than they've apparently claimed? Do they buy the product in the hope it will do that, and do they need that? Do they wonder why downloads seem to max out at 10-12MB per second?

For reference, a CD could hold ~700MB of data, a DVD 4.7GB (4700MB), and their hard drive maybe 1TB (1,000GB, 1,000,000MB). A picture taken with your iPhone might be 5MB, a song or Webpage might be 5MB to 20MB depending on content and quality etc.

All those numbers there use MB/ GB/ TB etc, by far the most common terminology for file handling, like how it's shown in windows in most instances or how storage devices, and PC's are marketed etc.

With broadband providers they market in a different way, basically as a con to try and fool you into thinking you're getting something faster than you are, which then makes you think you need something faster than you need (basically a long time con).

When they advertise a "100/250/350" connection, or talk "meg" on the phone etc, they want you to think you're getting 100MB/ 250MB/ 350MB, but you're not (not per second anyway), you're getting 100Mbbs, 250Mbbs etc, you're thinking Megabytes and they're talking Megabits, and their number is 1/8th the size of yours, as there's 8 bits in a byte. Effectively peoples data use at peak, is about 1/8th of what most seem to think it is.

 

[changingman]

Email them at hello@youfibre.com and give them your postcode and they should be able to tell you if, and if so, when they will be covering your street

Ours changed to coming soon a month before it went live. You can also use think broadband isp map (Google it) select the fttp isp button and tick the "Netomnia" option and it'll show you where they've built in your area

Yeah might drop them a line.

The map suggests zero coverage in the S postcode area, potentially laying the foundation for a future switch on.

 

[Block_4_Eastender]

I get perfect 5G home broadband from Three despite their website saying it’s not available. It cost £20 a month.

 

[BiggEggo]

I get perfect 5G home broadband from Three despite their website saying it’s not available. It cost £20 a month.

Sorted same service out for son for his uni residence. 250mbps for £22 per month and no contract.

 

[Norman_Conquest]

I've just wasted a full day on the phone with Virgin Media. Promised one thing from the operative and then the contract came through stating another. Tried to cancel it and when I wouldn't tell this woman my sort code for security reasons, she became all stroppy and rude. Not sure why she needed my sort code. Finally got through to retentions and was asked if they could offer me a deal and explained I had enough and just wanted to leave. I have put a complaint in but are not holding my breath.

 

[Block_4_Eastender]

I've just wasted a full day on the phone with Virgin Media. Promised one thing from the operative and then the contract came through stating another. Tried to cancel it and when I wouldn't tell this woman my sort code for security reasons, she became all stroppy and rude. Not sure why she needed my sort code. Finally got through to retentions and was asked if they could offer me a deal and explained I had enough and just wanted to leave. I have put a complaint in but are not holding my breath.

They did that to me. Tried to sneak in a longer contract.