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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder how much longer I'll have to wait for our 50 Mbps internet to get upgraded to something better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My connection barely breaks 25Mbps.

Openreach's map says my area is upgraded for FTTP, but my ISP says not.

[–] dunestorm 2 points 1 year ago

Openreach may be bigger, but their network is old and shit to large areas of the country. Virgin are far ahead in that regard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not going to hold my breath too much, because twice we were supposed to have been upgraded to FTTP, and both times BT/OpenReach quietly cancelled it as the government changed how they were going to subsidise it. But I just checked the Project Gigabit website and it looks like they might have a plan for Hampshire!

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/project-gigabit-network-build-contract-hampshire

It's CityFibre too rather than OpenReach so that'll be nice.