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dogfenneldill

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I've had Community Fibre for about two years now - I think I've only had one blip for a couple of hours one day which they sorted quickly remotely. Otherwise I've just needed the odd router restart, which is standard I think.


Overall a pretty solid 150mbps which has seen me through heavy data use for work from home and the usual streaming/gaming. Your experience may vary but they have worked well for me.

dogfenneldill

dogfenneldill

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I am interested in getting Community Fibre as having a awful time with Virgin at the moment. However they say they aren't in my area yet, I'm in St Aidan's Road. How did you manage to get it?

 

It was installed on the Champion Hill Estate - fibre optic straight to the flats. We had Virgin fibre broadband for ages and now we have Community Fibre and Hyperoptic too. Cables running everywhere... but plenty of choice I guess

beigemartin

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I've had community fibre FTTP for a few months. It's stupidly fast. I get 1000mbps over a wired connection and can get 500mbps over 5ghz WiFi when in the same room as the router. These figures are for both up AND down.


If anyone wants to use my referral link we will both get £100 in Amazon vouchers: https://communityfibre.co.uk/friends?referral=1SGl4AUHYB

Bic Basher

Bic Basher

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I am interested in getting Community Fibre as having a awful time with Virgin at the moment. However they say they aren't in my area yet, I'm in St Aidan's Road. How did you manage to get it?

 

It was installed on the Champion Hill Estate - fibre optic straight to the flats. We had Virgin fibre broadband for ages and now we have Community Fibre and Hyperoptic too. Cables running everywhere... but plenty of choice I guess

 

The Lordship Lane Estate also has the choice of both providers as well in addition to Virgin and those who use the Openreach network.

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borderpaul

borderpaul

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Another recommendation here for Community Fibre, we struggled for over a decade with BT ADSL with no chance of fibre shared between five of us, got Virgin eventually and then a year later Community Fibre arrived.


I have screenshotted the results as I now have three Internet providers coming into the house but will be getting rid of Virgin in a few weeks.


Community Fibre has the best speed, downloads 25% faster than Virgin but 6 times the upload speed and a third of the latency/delay/ping which is good for gamers and some specialist applications. I went for the 1gb package, the first three screenshots show the wifi speed and the last screenshot shows the wired speed for which you will need a 1Gb ethernet adapter(a lot of laptops will have slower 100mb adapters). All tests were done using Google's Internet speed test.


BT looks weak in comparison but although slow has proved very reliable and gives a £10 discount on BT Sport if you need it.


It is worth your while using a referral code when signing up as you will get a £100 Amazon voucher which you can do by clicking on the link https://communityfibre.co.uk/friends?referral=tsviiwyseC


Community Fibre Wifi Speed clwifismall.png.2fff4fd2ce02cde28b14bfc543437cdc.png


Virgin Wifi Speed virginwifispeed.png.ec9432d9c31e43629edde4b0817a6823.png

 


BT Wifi Speed BTwifispeed.png.01e9b0fe66ad62ccb3e0f00d47a24704.png

 


Community Fibre Wired Speed cflansmall.jpg.70f53fef65d4e830cfec05be95b3ab41.jpg

Penguin68

Penguin68

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borderpaul


Your BT ADSL speed is surprisingly good, considering you're measuring it through WiFi. Also the knock back from Wired to WiFi on your Community Fibre shows just how much can be lost that way. Although you do have some blisteringly fast speeds here, of course the actual service quality you get is also dependent on the connectivity and speeds at the other end (and how much contention there is). for those without this set-up if you are getting very slow transmission it is always worth checking on another site, in case speed problems are not at your end.


I am on BT Fibre to the cabinet, which is comparatively slow against fibre to the premise (which isn't available here) but which actually meets most of my speed needs. Maybe on Zoom I'm not getting cinema quality (particularly when others in the house are also using bandwidth) - but it suffices.

borderpaul

borderpaul

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You make a good point which is that your experience is the sum of the components and it depends on your needs.


I found out when I was doing the wired testing that initially it just did not perform and it was only when I investigated that I realised there was a slow network card that was always going to limit speeds to under 100Mb. Our BT ADSL speed was improved as there was a local issue but before that we were getting a lot slower speed which was causing issues with the kids when a new game update had come out on Xbox which their mates were playing already while they were waiting hours for a download to finish. If there weren't 5 of us and I didn't work in IT, the BT service would be my choice as my needs would be less.

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