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@Jason+Golding 

Hmmm lost me at "with respect". 

[Suskha]

This new EE TV certainly looks interesting - is it not supposed to launch today ? - anyone seen any official announcements ? I cannot see anything as yet on EE website.

[TimmyBGood]

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@Suskha wrote:

 anyone seen any official announcements ? I cannot see anything as yet on EE website.

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https://newsroom.ee.co.uk/ee-launches-new-platform-for-uk-consumers-featuring-ee-id-new-tv-products-... 

[stereohaven]

@Suskha "New EE" launched today, mostly featuring exceptionally overpriced broadband packages.

The new TV service launch is apparently a few months off yet. 

[TimmyBGood]

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@stereohaven wrote:

@Suskha

mostly featuring exceptionally overpriced broadband packages.

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To be fair, no other ISP is offering 1.6Gbps FTTP*

On the other hand, no-one really needs that either...

*Vodaphone says they will offer 2.2Gbps in 'early 2024'

[Artisans]

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@TimmyBGood wrote:

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@stereohaven wrote:

@Suskha

mostly featuring exceptionally overpriced broadband packages.

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To be fair, no other ISP is offering 1.6Gbps FTTP*

On the other hand, no-one really needs that either...

*Vodaphone says they will offer 2.2Gbps in 'early 2024'

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Bet their support teams are loving that news... No ISP-bundled router (or most aftermarket ones, for that matter) will be capable of delivering that sort of speed, nor will the vast majority of devices be capable to receive it.

Trying to tell a customer who is getting 1/10th of the speed on their speedtest that "yeah, you'll only get that full speed over ethernet, and only if the target has a 2.5GbE ethernet port" can't be fun.

[TimmyBGood]

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@Artisans wrote:

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No ISP-bundled router (or most aftermarket ones, for that matter) will be capable of delivering that sort of speed, nor will the vast majority of devices be capable to receive it.

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Presumably the supplied router will be capable of that port speed, but yes, consumer devices mostly won't be.  I think most currently installed Openreach ONTs are also gigabit, so those would need swapping out.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2022/09/pictured-openreachs-future-2-5gbps-ont-for-fttp-broadb... 

[stereohaven]

Agreed.

For the vast majority, these speeds are just marketing led willy waving, no average household needs them. 

Meanwhile we still have people struggling to even get access to USO speeds.

[TimmyBGood]

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@stereohaven wrote:

Meanwhile we still have people struggling to even get access to USO speeds.

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That's a rather different issue though: once FTTP is at an address then bumping up speed is just a question of issuing hardware with higher port speed chipsets (typically 2.5Gbs) : the optical cable itself doesn't care.

Struggling to get USO speed is typically the result of having antique copper, and physically rolling out FTTP to replace this is an entirely different process to supplying a small number of existing FTTP users with new-model routers and ONTs.

[Nigelb1972]

@stereohaven agreed about the willy waving. Barely any domestic properties need a gig but saying that we've started almost maxing minutes out 130mbps so we're jumping up to 500mbps because the price is decent.

[TimmyBGood]

@Nigelb1972 

As I've said elsewhere, BT keep offering me gigabit for £1 per month more than I currently pay them for 500Mbs

[Nigelb1972]

@TimmyBGood I suppose that's all relative to what you're currently paying really 

[TimmyBGood]

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@Nigelb1972 wrote:

all relative to what you're currently paying

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Far too much, frankly, but until very recently BT was the only ISP offering FTTP here.

Sky will now do so, but they don't have a domestic product equivalent to the BT 'Hybrid Connect' failover to cellular data.

Edit: a quick price check shows Sky Gigabit with WiFi Max and Talk Anytime (which is the closest to my BT bundle) is about £5pcm less than BT, and for me the peace-of-mind of automatic failover to cellular is worth that given my partner is reliant on connectivity to WFH.

[Tommy92]

Problem is is lack of hd channels....nearly every channel on the sky puck is 1080p ...watching sdr on a 4k tv is terrible .I came from bt tv .qaulity terrible and the picture is soft .the sky puck wipes the floor with it ...when it works may I add 

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