Copper lines are actually capable of much higher speeds than 70 Mbps. For example my own current connection is 600 Mbps but its capable of higher speeds. Also on a side note, you need to be more professional whether you like comments or not you shouldn't stoop so low as calling people stupid.
Anthony S to be fair VMs headline figure is 350mbps however due to the way their network is built, there is plenty of overhead so you can over speed when there is spare capity.
Steve Jones yep, agreed. I think though (like a lot of comments are pointing to) he’s being paid for this and it’s a false claim. Shame as I watch (and will continue to watch) both his channels.
@@techflow 'The video was factually correct so please, r trying to prove me wrong. ' well it is correct... but only for BT. If you had titled the video 'Fastest BT Connection in the UK' you'd have no issues in the comments. Fatest UK connection is just an outright lie
Alex man, I've been a long time follower of your channel and have been supporting you for years and years. But you gotta get your facts right. 300mbps is not the fastest residential speeds. I'm on Virgin Vivid 350 Gamer and get roughly 400mbps to my home. Before you argue that you did the test on Wi-Fi. So have I! I'm running Ubiquti NanoHD's and am a Network Infrastructure engineer myself so I've got things optimised as much as possible. All that being said, there are gigabit residential providers in the UK such as HyperOptic. So come on my friend. Don't assume your followers won't pick up on this, they will and then they'll be people like me who are qualified and knowledgeable in this field.
@@techflow Hi, thank you for your reply Alex. I'm not from any of those areas, I'm actually from London. Virgin media can be had in a lot of areas now so 300mbps is no longer the fastest residential connection.
Upgraded during the week to BT Fibre 90 during the week and got one of the discs delivered on Thursday. Getting 918 down & 110 up via Ethernet, & using Wi-fi, I’m getting 840 down & 110 up. Using the disc in my kitchen and sitting at the other end of my garden outside, I’m getting 610 down & 100 up via Wi-fi. I have a Huawai ONT which was installed in February. Worth the upgrade in possible
@@chrismann291 in enough for UK average to be 54mbps which is higher than Spain Lithuania Romania Estonia Portugal Italy Poland Hungary and probably more I didn't recognise. Greece 56 France 59 Germany is 62 Belgium 65 are as good as the same and Denmark 80 Sweden 82 Luxemburg 86 Switzerland 92 are quicker. in reality that means the average UK household could download a 2 hour Ultra High Def movie in 37 minutes and the Swiss in 21 minutes. But Netflix streams, so that is more like 3 rooms can watch UHD Netflix and the Swiss 4 + 1 in HD. Not really a big deal? Source: Speedtest - dot net
Pretty sure you've done no research on this. Ever heard of Hyperoptic or KCOM? Yup, residential internet that goes over 300mbps Edit: found that TalkTalk can give gigabit in some locations and VM give 350mbps. Do your research next time mate.
Also in the UK, is DOCSIS 3/3.1 mainly used by Virgin Media, is a copper TV cable connected from your router to the cabinet, however DOCSIS has a much larger bandwidth than standard copper DSL so in some parts of the UK (Reading, Manchester, and Southampton) you can get gigabit speeds. Where DOCSIS is available though other than those cities, packages from virgin media still range from 100mbps-500mbps which is still, really, really fast.
Virgin Media is the fastest residential broadband provider in the UK. This may be a sponsored video, but you might want to do some research in future. Virgin provide the VIVID 350, which is what I have and I get 400+
I can’t stand you anymore, your putting a limit on this test by using WiFi you should’ve connected your laptop Ethernet directly to the main router or ont directly, you really have no clue what your doing yet you make all this money from your ISP, I wouldn’t want you as my ISP, this is not the fastest UK residential connection
You need to bear in mind those "stupid people " you are referring to helped pay for your flash new house and your fancy broadband. Have a bit more respect for your viewers .
This is very clearly a paid promotion for BT - it should be identified as "paid promotion" on youtube. There is no way he would freely advertise BT given they are in a sense his competitor with his WISP - those customers could easily choose BT over him. This content is in breach of advertising standards in the UK, please report it as such!
Peter Reid Where do you report this? I am tired of this idiot breaking the rules..he seems to do it in all aspects of his life..just never stops lying.
Peter Reid you muppet. they don’t see some smug rich kid as a competitor. He has at most 30 customers and straps dishes all over the place. Hardly professional, and this sucks as a bt ad, misleading and facts straight up wrong.
You might want to change the title of the video. I get nearly 400mbps from virgin on my phones Wi-Fi and that's not uncommon for people on their 350mbps tariff, they even advertise the average speed for it as 362mbps
Virgin media isnt fibre. Its fibre to the cabinet and has a much lower upload speed capacity than traditional fibre. Latency and upload speeds are much better than virgin and now BT offers a 940/110 package. Which is now much faster than virgin's Gig1 service. Even though they boast 1,103mbps speeds, the ports on the router are only gigabit. So you can only get 940 from virgin.
Fastest residential connection is not BT its Virgin Media who offer a 350Mbps down speed but average speed results of 362Mbps. But you probably got BT for cheaper so no losses. Can’t believe that new homes are only getting 300Mbps speeds with FTTH. Virgin is FTTC and it gets more then that. Looks like the UK needs to sort its infrastructure out.
KillaBoi yeah my bad wrong name. This is BT GFast which Alex now has which also instant available everywhere just like hyperopric. But this is not the fastest residential broadband.
I think there's something wrong with your maths, Vivid 350 is available from Virgin (which is overprovisioned so youll likely get 360Mbps+), which is clearly faster than the 300Mbps you're getting!
@@techflow Your video was supposedly about "The Fastest Broadband Speed in the UK!!", just pointing out you were wrong - it may only be 60Mbps but that's 20% faster than what you have.
i'm an Wireless ISP in the UK and i can say that i can offer speeds upto 1Gbps to some of my areas my network covers, all areas of my network will be covered with 1Gbps very soon, so all i'll say is do your homework about broadband availability before publishing a video, also Alex, why are you not promoting your own Wireless ISP marsmedia? does it not have good speeds, think you should visit my place and see how it can be done properly to remote areas :)
Cool video, but it would be good to test the smarthub2 without the disc and see how far the signal travels through walls and floors. It would have been a better test if the disc were inside the house rather than outside in the front garden, so we can see how strong the signal is when we are out in the back garden.
Hyperoptic is faster than BT. They offer up to 1gb speeds. Even Virgin media is faster. Most ISP's in the Uk use BT Openreach cabinets except Virgin media from what i know, theres probably others. So if you change from BT to Sky, ul still have similar speed, just depends on your router and how optimised your connection is
"What this isn't is a wireless repeater" 2 seconds later "is going to repeat that signal" hummm ok. A mesh system actually connects to all other "wifi disks" rather than being a singular endpoint (which is what a repeater does).
You stopped using your own (free) WiFi so it would free up bandwidth for others to use. Fair, but I bet a major part for getting rid was due to shit speeds. Also this is definitely not the fastest residential broadband available, I have Virgin Fibre and get 350 down 😂
This is just immature isn’t it? Alex your a UA-camr and that involves seeing people’s comments but you can’t take them seriously and evidently get emotional over them. Your a business owner and have well exceeded the success of the average person your age. But there is no point in getting emotional and raging in your replies because one day you might go too far in that reply and it may well be detrimental to your reputation. Or to avoid all this distress you could just turn comments off? Hope this helped long time subscribers always waiting for the next video and checking all your channels for new content.
@@Abdullah97484 I've been a long time subscriber and watch generally most if his videos. There's just certain things he says and does that is sometimes laughable. And him rising to my 'immature' comment makes sense
@@indentings8009 oh yah? In one of his in think last year he kept saying 100 megabits as gigabyte not even gigabit. And you don't make the same mistake more than once if you do know it
Gigaclear offer up to 900MB residential fiber to property in Midlands/Cotswolds. Not in towns, specificly for rural areas. You say others offer faster is other areas as if this bt plus is available in allot of areas, if anything it's only going to be available in brand new estates in city areas so no different to those referring to other providers. Gigaclear as mentioned have laid their own fiber infrastructure throughout our area to properties new and old.
Nice for some, where I live in the UK, The cables are made of tin because they couldn't afford copper after the war. I get 0.8 megabyte download. And I can't do anything about it. Thanks BT
Ben Purvis actually that’s sort of untrue; a very unknown isp names hyperoptic offer 1gbps on their residential line, issue is obviously for the wide majority because of the networking infrastructure in the UK, not many people have access to it.
At the start he actually used 1000Mbit correctly, I though "WOW! For once the guy has actually learnt the difference, AT LONG LAST!"....then a few seconds later said 300Mbyte and let himself down again. He actually doesn't know the difference, which is pathetic when you're trying to make tech videos and run a WISP! Great production values, he's a talented kid when it comes to production, but he has VERY poor technical knowledge.
I get 385mb on a coax/fibre network from Virgin Media (not copper) .. I agree with others .. its NOT the fastest UK Broadband .. Virgin Media is rolling out FTTP (Fibre To The Premise) across a wide part of the UK and in some rural areas ;)
@@ateirNO it's not twisted pair, which I think Alex and others refer to as copper. DSL/ADSL., mines fibre to a node, then coax to the property, hence over 350mb Vs up to 76mb 👍
@@liambenson8606 hmm .. dunno, I guess that depends on the company delivering the service perspective ..Virgin FTTP is to the outside hence premise, to the home could be construed as internally to the modem inside the home.
Unless you have FTTP in the UK, BT will set your line profile and nothing you do will make your broadband go faster than this profile speed. BT are now as of 2021 actively reprofiling your line to slow down your best achievable speed. If you're lucky, your profile will be above 50mbps, if you're not, your line will be profiled to no more than 37mbps. Good luck getting Openreach to reprofile your line!
You may want to speak with people like Gigaclear and TrueSpeed who, I’m sure, will put you right on the “fastest RESIDENTIAL broadband in the UK”. Oh, and FTTC and FTTH/P ARE NOT the only types of “broadband” - ADSL is another type. Re-word what you say - they’re SUPERFAST and ULTRAFAST connections respectively. Sorry for the negative comments, but you may want to give accurate info when creating your videos, considering networking is your thing and you have your own wISP.
I’m not disputing that it’s the fastest OpenReach supplied speeds to residential properties in the UK - I am one of those lucky ones who has the 300down 30up FTTP from BT. But your video title could be something like “testing the fastest broadband *widely* available in the UK” - it’ll get you less flack for it. I’m not trying to prove anyone wrong, but the video title is misleading. Hey, I get you need then views and need catchy titles. However, on a positive, that new SmartHun looks wicked. I’ve got the previous version and BT WholeHome 3 point WiFi, does the job nicely. No hard feelings! Keep up the good work! And best of luck with London Marathon!
I have 2 networks, one has longer range and is 75mbps download, 50mbps upload. The one with shorter range gives 100mbps download and 75mbps upload. Use the longer range one for upstairs, the shorter range one for downstairs
@@techflow do you see elon musk saying how he uses ford cars because they are better, or richard branson saying he doesn't fly virgin anymore? nah because they represent their own companies and invest in the growth of them, you explained why you chose bt, but being the owner of a service can you not understand that from a outside point of view itd of made more sense for you to invest in yourself or figure out a way for you to provide it as a service provider than promote whats basically one of your competition! If Im stupid, god only knows what you are if you can't see that point of view, plus you've got countless other comments telling you your wrong about it being the fastest anyway. but yehhhh im the stupid one obviously
Mostly good video! However, a company called Hyperoptic is offering Gigabit speeds to residential users. Virgin Media's new package also offers up to 500Mbps using their DOCSIS network.
I thought the UK had better internet options then that. I just moved to a new house out in the country here in Ohio in the US and we have 400Mb cable internet. There are a few providers around, unluckily not at my new house that have 1000Mb for residential. By the way of they can run fiber to a box near your house it wouldn't take much to run a fiber line from there to the houses. I'm guessing they are only using a few fiber channels then splitting them off with switches or something using QOS to each house to save money on running more fiber. They also might not be able to run enough fiber lines to supply 1 to each house, most of the time those are fat cables buried under everthing.
I live in the UK and I can confirm we have faster broadband than this. Hyperoptic is a provider I am on in the UK and I receive speeds of 1gb however it isn't widely available. There are also providers such as Virgin Media which are more widely available that provides speeds of 350mbps and are looking to upgrade to speeds faster
Here in Hull UK, we have our own “residential” broadband provider KCOM who do FTTH, only thing they offer. Lightstream allows me up to 900mbs but I currently pay for 400
@@syedia I was mainly having poor wifi speeds but I got a power line adaptor and it made is a bit more reliable. I still dont get the best speeds but we are paying for the cheapest plan with a lot of people living in the same house.
Bit outdated now. Virgin overtook BT by a country mile. FTTC always has the same issue. Connectivity to the property in question. The other major issue is not all cables are copper from the cab to the property. Some are cheaper materials like Aluminium.
I have no fibre in my area cos no idiot wanted to pay a little bit of money to get it. ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS. So now I’m stuck with “5mbps” download speed but in reality I’m only getting an average of 400 kbps which is EXTREMELY SLOW. It takes me 17 hours to just download 32GB which is also EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING. People who live around 4 minute drive away can have extremely quick speeds whereas I’m stuck with this TERRIBLE wifi.
Pixel gun MoDz I do!!! And I still get those awful speeds. Fibre optic doesn’t reach into my neighbourhood so I can’t even get speeds over 9mbps if we bought better broadband
Im pretty sure there are other companies in some areas of the UK who do faster gigabit broadband... like hyperoptic, gigaclear, even vodafone and Virgin are starting to roll it out.. Also Virgin Media does 362mbps over cable to most places in the UK. Its available more than FTTH.
Plenty of faster services - granted many are local / limited deployments but VM has 362mbit service widely rolled out now. So no - you're not on the fasted broadband in the UK
Here at my house in the United States there is a 2 gigabit (2000 mbps) down and 2 gigabit up residential fiber connection from Xfinity, unfortunately we only pay for a 100 mbps fiber connection from Verizon Fios.
Sure Alex, I’m not proving you wrong. I’m saying in the video, you said it’s the fastest available in the UK. That states that the entirety of the UK which is not nessasairily the case. I live in London and have 1 GBPS On a happier note, what’s happening with your M2?
Alex, the correct wording would be one of the fastest connections in the UK. I’m not challenging you, it’s called constructive criticism. I for one am a big fan. Ok.... keep up the good work
First of all, it’s not the fastest connection available in the UK, Hyperoptic which is available offers async speeds of a gigabit per second. Virgin offer the max speed of 350 megabits per second and that’s over FTTC do imagine what Virgin would be able to do with FTTP
For a future video. Let's see you set up a load balanced connection with this fiber connection and your own ISP, ie 2 WAN connections using something from ubiquity, like an edge router or usg
Well as I live in a very rural location in the south I have access to a service that is much faster than most. I have a service from a company called Gigaclear. I pay for a 300mb upload and down load speed and this is what I always get it does not slow up when everyone else starts to use it. Calling your better informed viewers stupid is not very clever.
@@apxzwtf5505 I'll tell you what's funny, after finding out how bizarre Sky is for other people - I decided to call them to tell them I was cancelling (customer of 11 years ...), and suddenly my WiFi speeds jumped from 500-600 KBPS to 50 MBPS ...
Complete nonsense, Gigaclear and other companies have been providing “residential broadband" at 1GB for several years now, way before when this video was uploaded to UA-cam...
We just left BT. We were quoted 71 down 20ish up and the speeds were fine...for about a month. For some reason they're BT Hub 6 was s#!te and was the source of my frustration as every month it needed to be restarted or speeds would tank and internet became really laggy in general. Would love to see updates every few weeks or so to see if you experience similar. also, side note - hub6 looks much better than that router and by looks of things its nearly identical to our old one on the back.
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Copper lines are actually capable of much higher speeds than 70 Mbps. For example my own current connection is 600 Mbps but its capable of higher speeds. Also on a side note, you need to be more professional whether you like comments or not you shouldn't stoop so low as calling people stupid.
(CTTC) cable to the cabinet. is dependant on distance the closer you are the faster the connection.
Sorry (I guess this is sponsored), but VM do a 350meg plan and on average I get just below 370meg. So your claim about BT is just....wrong.
Anthony S to be fair VMs headline figure is 350mbps however due to the way their network is built, there is plenty of overhead so you can over speed when there is spare capity.
Steve Jones yep, agreed. I think though (like a lot of comments are pointing to) he’s being paid for this and it’s a false claim. Shame as I watch (and will continue to watch) both his channels.
@@techflow 'The video was factually correct so please, r trying to prove me wrong. ' well it is correct... but only for BT. If you had titled the video 'Fastest BT Connection in the UK' you'd have no issues in the comments. Fatest UK connection is just an outright lie
I get 1000mgb with BT FTTP, VM is wank
@Jo Bloggs various companies including vodaphone offer up to 900 and hypoptic do a gig for residential for some time.
Cocky yet totally incorrect
Alex man, I've been a long time follower of your channel and have been supporting you for years and years. But you gotta get your facts right. 300mbps is not the fastest residential speeds. I'm on Virgin Vivid 350 Gamer and get roughly 400mbps to my home. Before you argue that you did the test on Wi-Fi. So have I! I'm running Ubiquti NanoHD's and am a Network Infrastructure engineer myself so I've got things optimised as much as possible. All that being said, there are gigabit residential providers in the UK such as HyperOptic. So come on my friend. Don't assume your followers won't pick up on this, they will and then they'll be people like me who are qualified and knowledgeable in this field.
@@techflow Hi, thank you for your reply Alex. I'm not from any of those areas, I'm actually from London. Virgin media can be had in a lot of areas now so 300mbps is no longer the fastest residential connection.
Yea, Ultra Fibre Optic is also spreading (slowly) across york, and is gonna enter other cities as well. Gigabit speeds are coming!
Upgraded during the week to BT Fibre 90 during the week and got one of the discs delivered on Thursday. Getting 918 down & 110 up via Ethernet, & using Wi-fi, I’m getting 840 down & 110 up. Using the disc in my kitchen and sitting at the other end of my garden outside, I’m getting 610 down & 100 up via Wi-fi. I have a Huawai ONT which was installed in February. Worth the upgrade in possible
Internet services in the UK are so bad compared to other EU countries lol
That’s funny
We can get 900mbps on residential line. So 100GB in 15 minutes. Tell me about your European dream Internet
@@ru55ells not in many places though
@@chrismann291 in enough for UK average to be 54mbps which is higher than Spain Lithuania Romania Estonia Portugal Italy Poland Hungary and probably more I didn't recognise. Greece 56 France 59 Germany is 62 Belgium 65 are as good as the same and Denmark 80 Sweden 82 Luxemburg 86 Switzerland 92 are quicker.
in reality that means the average UK household could download a 2 hour Ultra High Def movie in 37 minutes and the Swiss in 21 minutes. But Netflix streams, so that is more like 3 rooms can watch UHD Netflix and the Swiss 4 + 1 in HD.
Not really a big deal?
Source: Speedtest - dot net
@@ru55ells alright sherlock holmes, who shit in your cigar?
Pretty sure you've done no research on this. Ever heard of Hyperoptic or KCOM? Yup, residential internet that goes over 300mbps
Edit: found that TalkTalk can give gigabit in some locations and VM give 350mbps. Do your research next time mate.
Also in the UK, is DOCSIS 3/3.1 mainly used by Virgin Media, is a copper TV cable connected from your router to the cabinet, however DOCSIS has a much larger bandwidth than standard copper DSL so in some parts of the UK (Reading, Manchester, and Southampton) you can get gigabit speeds. Where DOCSIS is available though other than those cities, packages from virgin media still range from 100mbps-500mbps which is still, really, really fast.
Did he say " I know internet well" - let's start with Megabit and Megabyte "Mr Internet"
Virgin Media is the fastest residential broadband provider in the UK. This may be a sponsored video, but you might want to do some research in future. Virgin provide the VIVID 350, which is what I have and I get 400+
1.You are not getting 300 MegaBytes/s
2. Hyperoptic is better and faster
3. This is a BT advert
Yup and still can’t pronounce Ethernet...
I can’t stand you anymore, your putting a limit on this test by using WiFi you should’ve connected your laptop Ethernet directly to the main router or ont directly, you really have no clue what your doing yet you make all this money from your ISP, I wouldn’t want you as my ISP, this is not the fastest UK residential connection
Even though you were down the street from your house, your WiFi signal was still better than mine lmao
Ever heard of hyperoptic???? At least do research before you make a video.
You need to bear in mind those "stupid people " you are referring to helped pay for your flash new house and your fancy broadband. Have a bit more respect for your viewers .
If you walk into Marzbar's house then your brain gets microwaved in your skull.
Stop saying MegaBYTE, its megaBIT
This is very clearly a paid promotion for BT - it should be identified as "paid promotion" on youtube. There is no way he would freely advertise BT given they are in a sense his competitor with his WISP - those customers could easily choose BT over him.
This content is in breach of advertising standards in the UK, please report it as such!
Peter Reid Where do you report this? I am tired of this idiot breaking the rules..he seems to do it in all aspects of his life..just never stops lying.
Peter Reid you muppet. they don’t see some smug rich kid as a competitor. He has at most 30 customers and straps dishes all over the place. Hardly professional, and this sucks as a bt ad, misleading and facts straight up wrong.
You might want to change the title of the video. I get nearly 400mbps from virgin on my phones Wi-Fi and that's not uncommon for people on their 350mbps tariff, they even advertise the average speed for it as 362mbps
I get 1000mgb WiFi over BT FTTP though
BT is just getting it, Virgin media has had it for a while.
Click bait title a wee bit though, *Testing BT's fastest Broadband Speed in the UK!!"
Virgin media isnt fibre. Its fibre to the cabinet and has a much lower upload speed capacity than traditional fibre. Latency and upload speeds are much better than virgin and now BT offers a 940/110 package. Which is now much faster than virgin's Gig1 service. Even though they boast 1,103mbps speeds, the ports on the router are only gigabit. So you can only get 940 from virgin.
Fastest residential connection is not BT its Virgin Media who offer a 350Mbps down speed but average speed results of 362Mbps. But you probably got BT for cheaper so no losses.
Can’t believe that new homes are only getting 300Mbps speeds with FTTH. Virgin is FTTC and it gets more then that. Looks like the UK needs to sort its infrastructure out.
Not it's not 😂 it's hyperoptic
Tomás Buenaventura hyperoptic isn’t available everywhere
KillaBoi Nor is BT Plus or whatever this app he was called again.
@@cgh2467 BT Plus is a addon provided by BT, gives you backup broadband, fasters speeds etc
KillaBoi yeah my bad wrong name. This is BT GFast which Alex now has which also instant available everywhere just like hyperopric. But this is not the fastest residential broadband.
wait, hold on, everyone is talking about 50mbps im getting 60kbps maximum and i thought that was normal.
Do you live in the countryside? If you do, the best solution for you to get better speeds would be EE’s 4G home broadband
UK, HULL. 400mbps £50 a month (unlimited data) with KCOM (I think it's only a East Yorkshire company) For residential use, we can buy up to 900mbps.
you get more download speed 100 metres away than i get 1 foot away from my bt hub
I think there's something wrong with your maths, Vivid 350 is available from Virgin (which is overprovisioned so youll likely get 360Mbps+), which is clearly faster than the 300Mbps you're getting!
@@techflow Your video was supposedly about "The Fastest Broadband Speed in the UK!!", just pointing out you were wrong - it may only be 60Mbps but that's 20% faster than what you have.
I can guarantee he hasn’t got the fastest residential broadband speed in the uk.
this. someone defo has a 20gbp/10gbp connection
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Can you plug your Ubiquiti USG directly into the fibre box so you don’t have to use the crappy isp router and compare the speeds. Thanks
That's definately not the fastest residential speed In the UK, I tested my virgin internet with the same speed test app and it went straight to 400+.
i'm an Wireless ISP in the UK and i can say that i can offer speeds upto 1Gbps to some of my areas my network covers, all areas of my network will be covered with 1Gbps very soon, so all i'll say is do your homework about broadband availability before publishing a video, also Alex, why are you not promoting your own Wireless ISP marsmedia? does it not have good speeds, think you should visit my place and see how it can be done properly to remote areas :)
Cool video, but it would be good to test the smarthub2 without the disc and see how far the signal travels through walls and floors. It would have been a better test if the disc were inside the house rather than outside in the front garden, so we can see how strong the signal is when we are out in the back garden.
If only UA-cam would pay for bad comments you get on your posts you'd make more money on that rather than views ...
Hyperoptic is faster than BT. They offer up to 1gb speeds. Even Virgin media is faster. Most ISP's in the Uk use BT Openreach cabinets except Virgin media from what i know, theres probably others. So if you change from BT to Sky, ul still have similar speed, just depends on your router and how optimised your connection is
He kinda looks like Nick from bigmouth
"What this isn't is a wireless repeater" 2 seconds later "is going to repeat that signal" hummm ok. A mesh system actually connects to all other "wifi disks" rather than being a singular endpoint (which is what a repeater does).
Man walked down his road and got 40mbps and when I walk upstairs my WiFi disconnects 😂
I watched this through buffering Sky wifi.🤬
You stopped using your own (free) WiFi so it would free up bandwidth for others to use. Fair, but I bet a major part for getting rid was due to shit speeds. Also this is definitely not the fastest residential broadband available, I have Virgin Fibre and get 350 down 😂
@@techflow no problem at all man. As a business man you take criticism alright. 9/10 for customer service
This is just immature isn’t it? Alex your a UA-camr and that involves seeing people’s comments but you can’t take them seriously and evidently get emotional over them. Your a business owner and have well exceeded the success of the average person your age. But there is no point in getting emotional and raging in your replies because one day you might go too far in that reply and it may well be detrimental to your reputation. Or to avoid all this distress you could just turn comments off? Hope this helped long time subscribers always waiting for the next video and checking all your channels for new content.
@@Abdullah97484 I've been a long time subscriber and watch generally most if his videos. There's just certain things he says and does that is sometimes laughable. And him rising to my 'immature' comment makes sense
why would you use a BT mesh if you have unifi? I thought you were all pro unifi.
I work for a cable company in the Netherlands and we are able to get 1000 Mbps over the copper line with docsis 3.1 so UK is very behind on that🤫
Timothy same with here in the United States. I get gigabit through copper with docsis 3.1
@@matthewwong1064 Coppers here in the uk aint all that clever
china gets 1gbps with copper lines installed just the uk is slow
Timothy they voted brexit just two years ago ... Did you think they'll get much smarter in these 2 years ?!?! Hahahah
Gigabits and Gigabytes are different things, Rip Tech Channel
It’s a common mispronunciation
@@harrisoncringe it don't think he even knows the difference cause this ain't the first time he has got it wrong
He knows what he’s doing lol.
@@indentings8009 oh yah? In one of his in think last year he kept saying 100 megabits as gigabyte not even gigabit. And you don't make the same mistake more than once if you do know it
No one likes to call it "eth" ernet it's eeeeethernet!
I'm on Hyperoptic, I get 1 Gigabit in both directions.
Gigaclear offer up to 900MB residential fiber to property in Midlands/Cotswolds. Not in towns, specificly for rural areas.
You say others offer faster is other areas as if this bt plus is available in allot of areas, if anything it's only going to be available in brand new estates in city areas so no different to those referring to other providers. Gigaclear as mentioned have laid their own fiber infrastructure throughout our area to properties new and old.
I work for BT and this product is phenomenal, the only provider in the UK to offer anything like it. Super proud to provide it
Nice for some, where I live in the UK, The cables are made of tin because they couldn't afford copper after the war. I get 0.8 megabyte download. And I can't do anything about it. Thanks BT
Ben Purvis actually that’s sort of untrue; a very unknown isp names hyperoptic offer 1gbps on their residential line, issue is obviously for the wide majority because of the networking infrastructure in the UK, not many people have access to it.
In New Zealand here I have a top speed of 972 MBit per second and that’s on gigabit connection.
At the start he actually used 1000Mbit correctly, I though "WOW! For once the guy has actually learnt the difference, AT LONG LAST!"....then a few seconds later said 300Mbyte and let himself down again. He actually doesn't know the difference, which is pathetic when you're trying to make tech videos and run a WISP! Great production values, he's a talented kid when it comes to production, but he has VERY poor technical knowledge.
Ben Jones totally agree
Gets a better connection on his phone down the road than I do using Sky Fiber plugged direct into my pc ...
Jake Karma Yaah I know sky is unreliable it disconnects every like 5 minutes
I get 385mb on a coax/fibre network from Virgin Media (not copper) .. I agree with others .. its NOT the fastest UK Broadband .. Virgin Media is rolling out FTTP (Fibre To The Premise) across a wide part of the UK and in some rural areas ;)
Fibre to the premise is the same as fibre to the home
What do you mean not copper? If you got coaxial cables, you got copper?
@@ateirNO it's not twisted pair, which I think Alex and others refer to as copper. DSL/ADSL., mines fibre to a node, then coax to the property, hence over 350mb Vs up to 76mb 👍
@@liambenson8606 hmm .. dunno, I guess that depends on the company delivering the service perspective ..Virgin FTTP is to the outside hence premise, to the home could be construed as internally to the modem inside the home.
2E0XBT_ Sean no, fibre to the premise is to the property (house) and fibre to the cabinet is fibre to the cabinet and then copper to the house.
Unless you have FTTP in the UK, BT will set your line profile and nothing you do will make your broadband go faster than this profile speed. BT are now as of 2021 actively reprofiling your line to slow down your best achievable speed. If you're lucky, your profile will be above 50mbps, if you're not, your line will be profiled to no more than 37mbps. Good luck getting Openreach to reprofile your line!
I had to stop watching the video because he couldn't pronounce Ethernet
you say potato, he says potato .....
And he has a rooter, I have a router
I'm gonna be waiting years for speeds like that to come to my area
You may want to speak with people like Gigaclear and TrueSpeed who, I’m sure, will put you right on the “fastest RESIDENTIAL broadband in the UK”. Oh, and FTTC and FTTH/P ARE NOT the only types of “broadband” - ADSL is another type. Re-word what you say - they’re SUPERFAST and ULTRAFAST connections respectively. Sorry for the negative comments, but you may want to give accurate info when creating your videos, considering networking is your thing and you have your own wISP.
I’m not disputing that it’s the fastest OpenReach supplied speeds to residential properties in the UK - I am one of those lucky ones who has the 300down 30up FTTP from BT. But your video title could be something like “testing the fastest broadband *widely* available in the UK” - it’ll get you less flack for it. I’m not trying to prove anyone wrong, but the video title is misleading. Hey, I get you need then views and need catchy titles. However, on a positive, that new SmartHun looks wicked. I’ve got the previous version and BT WholeHome 3 point WiFi, does the job nicely.
No hard feelings! Keep up the good work! And best of luck with London Marathon!
I have 2 networks, one has longer range and is 75mbps download, 50mbps upload. The one with shorter range gives 100mbps download and 75mbps upload. Use the longer range one for upstairs, the shorter range one for downstairs
Agrim Kalra which companies do you use for longer and shorter range
Vodafone are doing 900mb connections in a few cities at the moment. 300mbps is nowhere near the fastest in the UK.
So you provide Internet yourself but no longer use your own product, am I missing something? Great advert for bt, did they ask you to do that? 🤔🤔
a J In the life And why does he need something so fast..surely Pornhub doesn’t need such a connection?
@@techflow do you see elon musk saying how he uses ford cars because they are better, or richard branson saying he doesn't fly virgin anymore? nah because they represent their own companies and invest in the growth of them, you explained why you chose bt, but being the owner of a service can you not understand that from a outside point of view itd of made more sense for you to invest in yourself or figure out a way for you to provide it as a service provider than promote whats basically one of your competition! If Im stupid, god only knows what you are if you can't see that point of view, plus you've got countless other comments telling you your wrong about it being the fastest anyway. but yehhhh im the stupid one obviously
sponsored by BT?
It's not Megabytes, it's "Megabits" being an ISP you should know....😆
Virgin Media is faster, Virgin Media is 350+ and people average at about 360 ish MBPS.
We all know this kid talks shit though...
I get between 380-450 On virgin
Should of used virgin media
Need to change the title. I currently get 388Mbps with Virgin Media
I bet 1000mgb with BT FTTP, rather have no internet than 388mgb
Get**
Mostly good video! However, a company called Hyperoptic is offering Gigabit speeds to residential users. Virgin Media's new package also offers up to 500Mbps using their DOCSIS network.
I thought the UK had better internet options then that. I just moved to a new house out in the country here in Ohio in the US and we have 400Mb cable internet. There are a few providers around, unluckily not at my new house that have 1000Mb for residential. By the way of they can run fiber to a box near your house it wouldn't take much to run a fiber line from there to the houses. I'm guessing they are only using a few fiber channels then splitting them off with switches or something using QOS to each house to save money on running more fiber. They also might not be able to run enough fiber lines to supply 1 to each house, most of the time those are fat cables buried under everthing.
I live in the UK and I can confirm we have faster broadband than this. Hyperoptic is a provider I am on in the UK and I receive speeds of 1gb however it isn't widely available. There are also providers such as Virgin Media which are more widely available that provides speeds of 350mbps and are looking to upgrade to speeds faster
Here in Hull UK, we have our own “residential” broadband provider KCOM who do FTTH, only thing they offer. Lightstream allows me up to 900mbs but I currently pay for 400
Why didn’t you test it by connecting both hubs via Ethernet so there is minimum loss?
i pay for 50mb and get 3 😭
Maybe bc of ur area?
do you have a crackly landline also???
This is not the fastest Donald Duck.
@@techflow forget about virgin?
sorry but in the uk you can get 500mbps via virgin
And 1gb on hyperoptic
I literally get less than 10mbs but I'm on talk talk in a rural area
@@nexion2406 i get around 35 on my talktalk
not bad
@@syedia I was mainly having poor wifi speeds but I got a power line adaptor and it made is a bit more reliable. I still dont get the best speeds but we are paying for the cheapest plan with a lot of people living in the same house.
His internet further away is 7x faster than mine when right next to it...
Relatable?
👇🏽
Imagine not knowing the difference between megabyte and megabit
Bit outdated now. Virgin overtook BT by a country mile. FTTC always has the same issue. Connectivity to the property in question. The other major issue is not all cables are copper from the cab to the property. Some are cheaper materials like Aluminium.
I have no fibre in my area cos no idiot wanted to pay a little bit of money to get it. ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS. So now I’m stuck with “5mbps” download speed but in reality I’m only getting an average of 400 kbps which is EXTREMELY SLOW. It takes me 17 hours to just download 32GB which is also EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING. People who live around 4 minute drive away can have extremely quick speeds whereas I’m stuck with this TERRIBLE wifi.
Try using lan cable for your computer
Pixel gun MoDz I do!!! And I still get those awful speeds. Fibre optic doesn’t reach into my neighbourhood so I can’t even get speeds over 9mbps if we bought better broadband
NoobyGamez I feel sorry for you hopefully you get fibre installed to your home because where I live I have fast internet if I’m upstairs of downstairs
NoobyGamez oh yeah yeah
I will cry for you tonight
What the fuck is 'ether-net'? Yours sincerely, England...
Ethernet... I'm english and i don't get your issue... ?
Im pretty sure there are other companies in some areas of the UK who do faster gigabit broadband... like hyperoptic, gigaclear, even vodafone and Virgin are starting to roll it out..
Also Virgin Media does 362mbps over cable to most places in the UK. Its available more than FTTH.
This dude frying his neighbours brains with WiFi
Plenty of faster services - granted many are local / limited deployments but VM has 362mbit service widely rolled out now. So no - you're not on the fasted broadband in the UK
swear sky is worse than talk talk
Lmfao I have sky and the reason I’m watching these is to replace it is honestly so bad
I hate sky soo much when 2 people are on the internet youtube or tiktok and I am playing a game i instantly go to about 300 ping
My sky network is worse than when he was standing down the street when connected lol
Virgin media is up to 516mbps. hyperoptic is the fastest residential and has been for the past 6 or 7 years at 1gbps
But their waiting call for 1 hour won't end.
do you know how reliable is hyperoptic?
he looks like buck from ice age.
Lmao
Here at my house in the United States there is a 2 gigabit (2000 mbps) down and 2 gigabit up residential fiber connection from Xfinity, unfortunately we only pay for a 100 mbps fiber connection from Verizon Fios.
Hey Alex.
BS it’s the fastest residential FTTP connection in the UK!
I have Hyperoptic which I get a 1GPBS up and 1GPS down!
Sure Alex, I’m not proving you wrong. I’m saying in the video, you said it’s the fastest available in the UK. That states that the entirety of the UK which is not nessasairily the case. I live in London and have 1 GBPS
On a happier note, what’s happening with your M2?
Alex, the correct wording would be one of the fastest connections in the UK. I’m not challenging you, it’s called constructive criticism. I for one am a big fan. Ok.... keep up the good work
Is it bad that I think his face doesn't match his body?
First of all, it’s not the fastest connection available in the UK, Hyperoptic which is available offers async speeds of a gigabit per second. Virgin offer the max speed of 350 megabits per second and that’s over FTTC do imagine what Virgin would be able to do with FTTP
I get 385mbps with virgin media FTTC
@@dafatkid88 I have Virgin too, its better than BT at least from experience.
For a future video. Let's see you set up a load balanced connection with this fiber connection and your own ISP, ie 2 WAN connections using something from ubiquity, like an edge router or usg
No it’s not, I have fth and I get a constant 300 up and down but I could get a 1gb connection if I wanted. Check your info before miss leading people
Well as I live in a very rural location in the south I have access to a service that is much faster than most. I have a service from a company called Gigaclear. I pay for a 300mb upload and down load speed and this is what I always get it does not slow up when everyone else starts to use it. Calling your better informed viewers stupid is not very clever.
Wow he has better speeds and latency than me, houses away on a wireless connection than I have in my home on a wired connection.
Who's sitting with sky and on 32 kbps
Me ... tragic experience during lockdown.
Me my WiFi 1mbps or below all the time
@@apxzwtf5505 I'll tell you what's funny, after finding out how bizarre Sky is for other people - I decided to call them to tell them I was cancelling (customer of 11 years ...), and suddenly my WiFi speeds jumped from 500-600 KBPS to 50 MBPS ...
paying for 46 speeds and get 47 thanks BT and sky, this is holding the UK back am on a not very old estate either.
You need hyperoptic
feels like a BT sponsor to me, Virgin, HyperOptic, Voda Gigabye and GigaClear. a simple google search would have shown him this xD
York had 1gb before this was posted
Well done, our Internet speed is 24😂😒
Ur lucky mine is 1,2,3 sometimes if I'm lucky it get up to 16,14,9 I have sse
@@datrobloxboi5179 What country is your Internet
That's a average speed
@@kaylem3844 This is our best Internet speed
Would still say Virgin is the fastest and far more widely available that this
Alex, love your videos mate but this simply isn’t correct. I was installing FTTH broadband in rural areas 7 years ago.
When will the U.K. go full fibre and be no dictated on which provider we go with
That is the question we are all asking!
That guy can workor all he wants.. That British mug ain't never gonna die
I'm with Sky in the UK and you're getting faster speeds ALL THE WAY DOWN THE STREET that I get direct to my house via ethernet cable!
What about hyperoptic?
Complete nonsense, Gigaclear and other companies have been providing “residential broadband" at 1GB for several years now, way before when this video was uploaded to UA-cam...
We just left BT. We were quoted 71 down 20ish up and the speeds were fine...for about a month. For some reason they're BT Hub 6 was s#!te and was the source of my frustration as every month it needed to be restarted or speeds would tank and internet became really laggy in general. Would love to see updates every few weeks or so to see if you experience similar. also, side note - hub6 looks much better than that router and by looks of things its nearly identical to our old one on the back.
The Hub 5 is actually better.
Hey Fergus, the hub shown on this video was a Smarthub 2 which I think you could consider the Hub 7 as it is the next one along the lines.