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1Gbps coming to UK?

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So, few days ago I have received an interesting letter from a company I have never heard of before...

Still, looks like it may be the kick UK needs to move its ass with rolling out fibre to places like 5 minutes away from city center... or at least telling Google world exists outside of US :)

What do you think?

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Most of the UK (98% according to reports) are getting Fibre or something like it by 2016 at the latest so they are actually doing something about it.

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I won't be getting it any time soon in my area. We don't even have Virgin Media internet so the best we can get is 70mbps down BT

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I won't be getting it any time soon in my area. We don't even have Virgin Media internet so the best we can get is 70mbps down BT

Get 68 down with plusnet and hen have them lower it to 30.

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well, im moving to liverpool :P

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You guy always get the fun stuff.

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im only 50mb/s at the moment... i can go up to 150mb/s but itl cost allot more :| 1gbs isnt worth it... unless you are running a server.

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I've made a comphrehensive rundown of the current UK broadband status/future plans here: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/122335-uk-superfast-rural-broadband-progression-news-roundup-march-2014/#entry1636966

 

*shameless plug*

 

but in all seriousness, it's great news, but just a bit iffy about the company, never heard of them before.

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well, im moving to liverpool :P

eemm.... I'd stay wherever you are and wait it comes to your town ;P

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Meanwhile in the US:

 

5MBS is coming your way!

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I thought it said hypocrite when I skimmed over the letter title. xD Starting at 25 euros pounds is not bad imo.

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eemm.... I'd stay wherever you are and wait it comes to your town ;P

I need it, NOW!! NOW I TELL YOU :lol:

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I need it, NOW!! NOW I TELL YOU :lol:

"you relly don neeed da internet laad, I bet you don evyn nid dat speed likhe. You rich cheeky dickheads always go for all them expensive stuff likhe, just fukhin e-peen laad likhe im tellin yuh."

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"you relly don neeed da internet laad, I bet you don evyn nid dat speed likhe. You rich cheeky dickheads always go for all them expensive stuff likhe, just fukhin e-peen laad likhe im tellin yuh."

That was actually the best impression i have heard...  :o

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I thought it said hypocrite when I skimmed over the letter title. xD Starting at 25 euros is not bad imo.

 

*£25. 25 pounds. Not euros.

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*£25. 25 pounds. Not euros.

Thanks for the correction. Not that good with currencies. :/

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Live on less than 2MB/s...

Though my University already has gigabit ;)

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Meanwhile in the US:

 

5MBS is coming your way!

It's not quite that bad..

Most of the U.S. has pretty decent internet. It's just shady throttling (even more prevalent after the net neutrality agreement was done with) and outlandish pricing for not-so-reliable internet in many cases and at the least just a terrible "deal".

I blame packages and term contracts for it mostly, but infrastructure is also a problem.

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You can already get 1gbps if youre willing to pay for it. Virgin media will do anything up to 400gbps. Im sure there are many, many smaller telecoms companies that will also do fast connections.

 

Hyperoptic is currently only in a few estates/streets in central London. What part of Liverpool are they going to?

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damnit im in the wirral, go on google maps and you will see how close that is!!!!!  :o

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EVERYONE keeps forgetting that even if you have the fastest internet in the WORLD you still won't get what you pay for because your phone/pc can'r write at that speeds or the server you are connected just don't even allow a user to get a speed like that
seriously that speed is useless most of the time
 

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EVERYONE keeps forgetting that even if you have the fastest internet in the WORLD you still won't get what you pay for because your phone/pc can'r write at that speeds or the server you are connected just don't even allow a user to get a speed like that

seriously that speed is useless most of the time

 

 

Are those write speeds not measured in bytes? Maybe you are thinking of 10-Gigabit?

 

Either way, its good to have some sort of future planing in place, there's no point in limiting it to the write speeds of storage now when the new infrastructure allows for more... it would mean laying down more cables which is why we are in this mess in the first place.

 

I'm actually happy with 120Mb/s down, but my up speeds are dismal so this will obviously help with that. 

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