ChigzyB
Only heard good things about gigaclear. Not a bad price right now either at 19 quid for 500Mb.
As far as I know though, each fibre provider uses their own line. Openreach don’t use CityFibre lines etc
The 500 vs 1000Mb debate has popped up many times, unless 1G is cheaper then stay on 500Mb.
I don’t have 1G fibre however
The ‘benefit’ of 1G fibre is that more devices can share that bandwidth. You don’t notice day to day but when multiple people are using the internet;
- Work from Home
- Gaming and updates
- Uploading images to the cloud
- Security cameras in use
- Maybe uploading a video to YouTube
- Streaming on IPTV; Netflix, Disney+ etc
and there’s so much more that happens, all so seamlessly without a hiccup. It would be likely be just as awesome on 300Mbps too however on 1G you can burst more, especially when you need something as soon as possible.
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As for your WiFi issue. You need more WiFi points around to solve that.
Normal all depends.
Here in the UK we don’t have data caps but our personal household usage roughly is 500GB a month between 3 of us on 65Mb. We don’t do anything other than stream in 1080p and I’m the only one who games. I don’t know about upload usage, of 20Mb, never actually asked our ISP.
The UK is on average about 456GB in May 2022. With the UK passing over 60% of households having fibre to the home as of late, that number is likely closer to double that now; especially as more people can watch content reliably in 4K and upload more since WfH etc…
They’ve always been useless; we don’t have VM here but relatives have always had theirs in modem mode with amother router or mesh system.
Best to eWaste it.
Bad cable in the wall.