As clear as mud. My EE Full Fibre connection is currently (17:50 Wednesday 8th May) giving me a Ping of 9ms, a download speed of 513Mb/s and an upload speed of 72Mb/s, If I game on-line it's only with Microsoft Flight Simulator and my connection is more than adequate.

We have FTTC. What do we do when OpenReach switch off copper cables to property in 2025.

If you live outside London your pretty much done over with faster speeds way more competition in London so better deals 6G almost ready would be a better option in countryside.

Also, get quality routers, APs or Switches. If you use a cheap route the quality of your link is degraded when you start to push the limit of line. If you have a route that supports QoS that helps to smooth out new connections as it will prioritise protocols that need more bandwidth ( streaming, gaming, online meetings) and those that need less bandwidth ( downloads, web browsing). There will be a little on the side for a new connection to start up. This means that the new connection will not impact any other user experience (buffering on a stream, lag in a game or meeting). This was the best discussion on the topic. my IPS pushed me to 100MB on my FTTH connection (was on a 75MB) as they dropped the speed I was on so I have requested to be on a low package 50MB as this will do perfectly for my needs. As I have quality routers, APs, and switches. And fewer issues with them.

POS Camera! save your money; I wish I had. battery MIGHT last an hour. TRASH

Hyperoptic doesn't use the Openreach network and has upload and download speed at 1gb. so they would have been a good compare lol

Virgin Media 1gig way better then the open reach network providers will never change to that slow internet

your actually properly clueless i dont know how youve been making video for years and years and still have no clue how any of this internet stuff works

But do you know why? Virgin had the first fast connection, so many server farms have their connection, so that why some servers are faster if they are local. Virgin have a 50:1 ratio. (Could be 100:1) So where you go to their box on the street there are 50/100 other people sending the data. But that's also controlled by some hardware (switching) so older hardware is slower and also a bit limited in terms of performance and that important ping time. Then we have gateways....

I work for an ISP and can confirm that this is utter shit

How do you know any of that is "AI" and not just a better processor and optimization?

Downside of Fibre, some people have found they get a high smoking Fibre optic cable so it's being stolen in the country I live in. I have Fibre less 5g it comes to my modern straight from the tower. Was getting 180 mps

Why there is differences in speed depending on the website is because of how these providers or the CDN's interconnect into the ISP's network. They could already have the connection saturated or even be a slower interconnect than the other. You should have done a trace route to dropbox/google drive to see the differences in how/where it connects into the CDN.

Yayzi's offering at 2.5gbps is the current fastest. Runs on cityfibre, been around for 3-4 months. Also, to compare cityfibre to openreach, i.e. the way it works is a bit oversimplified. They have cabling infrastructre in common. They work a little differently from each other, which is why the service offering between cityfibre and openreach is completely different.

Docsis ADSL, and fttc will all have a contended connection. During COVID lockdown it was crazy on a docsis connection, at 4pm all the kids in the street would start watching Netflix and my connection performance plummeted

To fix ps5 download speeds you have to change the value of mtu (it has been a while so can’t quite remember name) from 1500 to 1475 and this fixes the slow speed. Don’t know why Sony still have not fixed this bug since ps4 days..

Good thing about virgin is they use an isolator. So when your line is hit with lightning your router doesnt get fried

Using an ethernet LAN connection to your router makes a huge difference. I've networked each room in my house and my ping to EU gaming servers never gets above 15-20ms and that is using a copper BT line. Rarely see any one else get better than that. We also keep game updates capped so they don't munch all of our 50mb connection speed and slow the other devices down.

I wouldn't give 10 cents for anything Philips hue.. way over priced for crap quality

Had Virgin business service in Wimbledon before moving to Manchester and that was laughable, 200mbps on a good day. Moved to Manchester and Hyperoptic will provision to to building less than 1 metre away from me, but not to me - maximum FTTC speed '140mbps' from (ahem) TalkTalk for £35pm. Erm, no. Put a 5G antenna on the front of the building facing the tower block 200m away with a 5G antenna sitting on top. Paying Hutchison 3G £20 per month for what is almost always 500mbps service. Yes ping is awful though.

Im with county broadband 4ms ping unloaded around 100 loaded on wifi. 600mbps symmetrical for £32.

Please buy some trousers to wear over your boxer shorts

The whole thing about your loaded ping being higher than your unloaded ping is due to bufferbloat. This is down to your router and has nothing to do with your provider or connection speed. If your connection is fully saturated then any packets are sent and received on a first come, first served basis. In other words, any time sensitive UDP packets in your conference call or online game are stuck at the back of the queue - the buffer - and have to wait until all the other packets in front of it have been dealt with first. High end routers have a function called smart queue management which can be enabled for a small bandwidth hit, but the tradeoff is you get no bufferbloat and your ping does not increase no matter how loaded down the network becomes. This is because your router is smart enough to know which packets are time sensitive, and sends them out straight away regardless of where they are in the queue.

941.7 Mbps ⬇️ 958.3Mbps⬆️2ms ping unloaded 10ms loaded. youfibre FTTP

Ummmmm, 1.6Gbps isn’t the fastest FTTP/full fibre you can get in the UK. My ISP (not mentioned in your video) offers 2.5Gbps and 8Gbps above their 1Gbps service, and that’s a symmetric service with upload and download speed the same vs the reduced upload speed on BT, EE, Virgin etc.

Disappointing that both the Openreach and Virgin Media speeds were asymmetrical. For those who want to run their own personal cloud storage or do some web hosting, that 100Mb/s upload is going to hurt.

Overly simplified as most of his networking videos

Uploads ?

I have 1Gbs symmetric and it makes using AWS / cloud services from home a practical proposition to use high virtual CPU count servers for a few seconds to perform tasks and download the file file to my home server. That would take many hours to days to process locally and at high energy usage.

In Wales there is ogi fibre

This is a lie EE isnt the fastest in the uk Youfibre have 8gb speeds

There is a bit a problem with the full fibre here, namely Cityfibre which is the provider where I live. Cityfibre only got a 1 star from me, because there was no option for zero. They did the work and installments but made a very big mistake. The cable from the cabinet to the house is ran underground, and exactly where all the heavy vechiles turn around just next to the pavement - sinking their tyres into the ground. I'm not conviced entirely if the cables can withstand it nor those werve layed down at that part properly protected. Whether due to this or not, there has never been signal to me and after arranging a few appointments with the Cityfibre and never having anyone bothering to pay a visit - having to use up holidays for nothing. So I stayed with Virgin so to have a connection at least. As much as would want to change, I shall avoid cityfibre.

Id suggest running multiple tests and just taking the mean of those tests, as i have ran a test on my pc an hour apart and got 2 different speeds. Also my playstation utilises the max speed i get, which is 900mb download but i actually get 980, but sometimes i can do 2 tests close together and get wildly different speeds. You cant stop the playstation from doing internal processes when it wants to do them, so again id say do a few tests on each console and take the mean for a more accurate data set, and even out variables between both consoles. You can game on a 5mb dl connection, its the upload speed (information that's sent to game servers), ping and quality of connection that matters (packet loss)

What about lilia connect they are symmetrical fttp

"The fastest provider in the UK, through full fibre is EE, they offer 1.6Gbps".. This is incorrect... Numerous ISP's offer faster than that for home use. For example my ISP (Community Fibre) offers a 3Gbps package for home users, and B4RN offers a 10GbE connection, for just a little more than Virgin tried to charge me for their upper-bundle.

Great video, thanks!

Virgin media are now offering 2 Gig connections in the Republic of Ireland. So they should be available in the UK soon.

FTTP crew ⬇️

I'm here for the comments only

These are still £250 in the UK??

I will be changing my ISP later this year for a faster download speed at a lower price than I'm paying now. I will lose the phone line but I haven't used the landline since I moved in to the property in April 2011. I'll be paying £26 per month when the ISP installs their software compared to £33 I pay my present ISP saving £84 per year.

I hate the UK most broadband speed are not symmetric, turtle upload speed.😤

We live in the UK countryside & can’t get any kind of fibre optic etc so our only option is a 4G Router which gives us about 50-80mb download speed. As an avid gamer it’s just about the minimum speeds I can handle for gaming before things become unplayable.

YouFibre have 8gbps through pia on open reach ducks etc

I would actulay say Starlink link would be a lot better than most WISPs. Well where I live (New Zealand), the majority of the WISPs here do not offer anything over 50 down, 20 up let alone 35+ ping. Some do, but I know only one. And Starlink here and some places is only $75pm NZD for like 285 down and 50 up with near or less than 35 ping (Gen 2 dish). Also I have starlink so might be biast, but yeah if you have any other better and cheaper option, don't go starlink.

It was cheaper for me to upgrade my internet speed to 1.5 gig rather then leave it at 1 gig. But my network was set for 1 gig max. Now I have fully upgraded every last part of my network besides the roughter. I'm pretty much stuck with this one now.. Because of the future proofing. I'll be fully setup for 10g after I buy this.

Ironic we got full fibre, it's gone from about 10/15 to 30/40... We were told we could get 400 mbps

John Major was hoodwinked by the 'merican's in messing up the UK telecommunications market taking way the whole Post Office British Telecom R&D and alowing the mess we see today. Rather than the Cutting edge Tech that was always run out on the Isle of Man before install on the mainland.

Do not buy anythink electric from China it won't work and if it do works it will onley work for a short time

I’m sure virgin deliver about 1.1g to make sure you get the 1gb on tests so you are actually getting way under with your virgin connection instead of the 80 extra you think you are getting