Upgrading My Home Internet to Full Fibre
As many regular readers know, we live in the North Wales countryside, which means it can take time to get the latest and greatest when it comes to technology.
As a result, we were previously "limited" to FTTC (fibre to the cabinet) which had a max speed of 70Mbps. As a result, we got okay internet speeds:
But then I saw the ISP vans in the village, and I asked them what they were doing - "oh, we're upgrading the village to full fibre" she said.
I had to have it!
As soon as FTTP (fibre to the premises) was available, I placed the order with my ISP (who offered me a great deal that's only £5 per month more), and this is the result:
Is it worth it?
In all honesty, I haven't noticed the difference. We didn't have any buffering issues when watching things like Netflix or Apple TV, so I'm not really sure why I upgraded in hindsight.
I thought it would be this incredible difference where my internet would then be rapid, but the truth is, it's complete imperceptible. I remember when I upgraded from a 56k MODEM, to ~2Mbps broadband and it blew my mind. I was thinking this would be the same, but no.
I do think the increased upload speed is going to come in handy when it comes to things like syncing my private git repos back to my Synology, but aside from that, there's not much in it.
Had I paid full price (~£20 more per month) I don't think I'd have been too happy, but since I got a good deal, I'm not too bothered.
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