Readers’ comments
Your views and feedback from email and the web
50Gbit dreaming
I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when I read the article about BT’s 50Gbits/sec broadband connection (see issue 367, p12). I live in a town in the middle of Hampshire, so not out in the sticks, and it’s the third most expensive market town in the country when buying a house. Despite this affluence, my FTTC broadband gives about 10Mbits/sec down and less than that on up. This is the same for most of the town. No word from BT as to when we will get fibre. Two of the mobile companies provide 4G (no 5G anywhere) and my phone shows 50Mbits/sec down so I tried a couple of LTE modems. Both give about 15Mbits/sec down. Why is FTTC broadband so bad compared with a phone? I even started looking at using a phone to provide internet access, but this is an expensive option.
So while it is nice to read about BT doing super-fast things, it would be even nicer if they did something more for those of us who live in normal, well-populated parts of the country.