Improving Internet Access Round The House

JBR said:

Yes. Mine's the same, though the box is only just across the street.
I don't know anyone who has fibre to the house.

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We have the option of full fibre - Virgin installed fibre to the end of every drive in the street, a couple of years ago. They seemed to be pretty desperate to get people to sign up once it was in, but not many did. I just didn't see the point in paying nearly double what we were paying, when there was no advantage to be had.

Harry Bloomfield said:

We have the option of full fibre - Virgin installed fibre to the end of every drive in the street, a couple of years ago. They seemed to be pretty desperate to get people to sign up once it was in, but not many did. I just didn't see the point in paying nearly double what we were paying, when there was no advantage to be had.

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True. They're money grabbers!
We get 100Mb at best, and that's with an ethernet cable connection to my laptop. Without the cable it's less, but still more than we need. We pay over £40 a month. I'd rather pay less for half that speed, which would still be OK and I asked them about that some time ago but they just ignored me! 1/10 for customer service.

I have Plusnet unlimited fibre, ave speed 33mb. It’s not their top package, that would be Unlimited Fibre Extra, ave speed 66mb.
I have eight cameras on it, plus the tellies, PC, tablets and phones. It’s perfectly adequate for all that and I have never found it to not be enough to meet my needs.

These have come down in price today (single not dual) https://www.ebuyer.com/973575-asus-...yhUdLZ8vJ85soNjREYTKU3brjaELvclkaAlymEALw_wcB My son has them and I've just gone for one hoping it'll cover my 1800 sq ft house
Reviews are great

UFO do a 900mbps + Fibre connection, I have connection next to my Hedge but they won't bring fibre into our house without burying the cable.

I'm on Virgin Media, 100mbps but they are expensive, needed to move some stuff in front garden and get UFO in really..

I bought the TP Mesh M9 system, they get good reviews at a reasonable cost. They have tri band, so a dedicated back channel. If you step up the cost Netgears Orbs seem better. BT homehub also gets a good Which! review but I have no personal experience with it. In my current house the mesh units are sat a floor apart, cover the house and have no dropouts. I'm moving soon and have the opportunity to hardwire each unit in, this will allow me to place the units where I want over proximity to each other and better for gaming (although its fine now, 30-40ms). The downside to the M9s is only 2 eth ports, one of which will be the cable in, because of this I space switches along my network.

My brother did his house buying Xiaomi routers, dirt cheap and flashing custom firmware to create his own mesh system, he's happy with it and certainly cheaper.

foxhole said:

Just trialing a tplink mesh system , Virgin router is cack ( on second unit after signing up in summer ). Easy set up and each unit has two Ethernet ports.So far no dropouts and good speeds . £85 for triple pack .

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So far so good, mesh system has provided good signal all round the house, have VM fibre into house , (110mb for £27 per month)