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Consolidation looms for UK broadband providers

cyberdemon Silver badge
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Re: Yeah but...

As a Toob customer I can tell you it's worth the wait.

I'm on 900Mbps (link is 1Gbps and it tests at ~930 at speedcheck and fast) for £25/month

It's symmetric, but half-duplex i.e. it's only one fibre that can do 1Gbps up OR 1Gbps down, so probably the missing 70Mbps is spent on link arbitration. This doesn't seem to affect latency though - 3ms ping to 8.8.8.8

I'd be gutted if they got 'consolidated' into one of the big providers though. As a small operator, they are not required to block sites such as sci-hub, tpb etc ..

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