Openreach and associated do they have data caps?
13-09-2023, 21:33
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Openreach and associated do they have data caps?
In my area (at long last) Openreach are finalising fibre services. The last time I used anything non Virgin it was ADSL and used to have ridiculous data caps each month.
Do Openreach still have these for Fibre, and do they throttle, or is it all very similar to how VM work ?
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13-09-2023, 21:48
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Re: Openreach and associated do they have data caps?
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Originally Posted by techguyone
In my area (at long last) Openreach are finalising fibre services. The last time I used anything non Virgin it was ADSL and used to have ridiculous data caps each month.
Do Openreach still have these for Fibre, and do they throttle, or is it all very similar to how VM work ?
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I don't think anyone data caps any more, if they did they wouldn't have many customers. Wouldn't work too well with todays streaming services.
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13-09-2023, 22:05
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Re: Openreach and associated do they have data caps?
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Originally Posted by daveeb
I don't think anyone data caps any more, if they did they wouldn't have many customers. Wouldn't work too well with todays streaming services.
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Actually, some still do, even on FTTP, its generally quite high though.
Andrews & Arnold have 1TB/month and 2TB/month limits on their services.
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13-09-2023, 22:32
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Re: Openreach and associated do they have data caps?
We have BT service over Openreach FTTP. No cap or throttle here. Which is just as well, as we’re definitely using well north of 1TB per month.
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14-09-2023, 00:01
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Re: Openreach and associated do they have data caps?
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Originally Posted by Chris
We have BT service over Openreach FTTP. No cap or throttle here. Which is just as well, as we’re definitely using well north of 1TB per month.
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Have you measured it ?
I WFH, have multiple PCs and tablets on 24/7.
The rest of the family (4 adults, 1 child) have phones/tablets/laptops.
Even the grandaughter has an old ipad she uses everyday on youtube.
With all of that, we still dont hit 1TB a month (my router clocks up all usage).
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14-09-2023, 07:38
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Re: Openreach and associated do they have data caps?
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Originally Posted by Paul
Have you measured it ?
I WFH, have multiple PCs and tablets on 24/7.
The rest of the family (4 adults, 1 child) have phones/tablets/laptops.
Even the grandaughter has an old ipad she uses everyday on youtube.
With all of that, we still dont hit 1TB a month (my router clocks up all usage).
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Not at this house, but when we used 4G at our last house you could see accumulated data throughput in the router admin pages. At that time we were regularly topping 1TB download a month. One day I popped in to an EE shop to check what deals they had and the shop guy accessed my account to advise me what would be best for my circumstances … when he saw my usage he needed scraped off the floor (the router was using a second SIM on the same account I have for my phone).
I haven’t measured it since we moved to our present home with FTTP, however, we no longer use satellite for broadcast TV as we never got round to having a dish or aerial installed. So even when we’re watching ‘live’ TV it’s via iPlayer or ITV or whoever. The offspring are all more or less constantly streaming something in their own bedrooms as well.
That said, it’s video streaming that really racks it up and the two heaviest consumers are the living room TV which streams 5-6 hours a day, every day, and our eldest, who runs a youtube channel and voraciously consumes youtube content similar to his own interests the entire time he’s awake, even down to carrying his phone round the house and wearing headphones.
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21-06-2024, 19:40
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Re: Openreach and associated do they have data caps?
Just tested my openreach FTTP and not bad, my ISP brands it as 900/100.
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01-08-2024, 15:40
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Re: Openreach and associated do they have data caps?
Even better download today (about 10 mins ago).
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01-08-2024, 16:58
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Re: Openreach and associated do they have data caps?
Hmm, we have a new Chromebook here I can hard-wire to our BT fibre. Maybe I’ll try to get a speed test off it later. Obvs you don’t get anything like 900Mbps download wirelessly to an iPad.
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01-08-2024, 17:58
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Re: Openreach and associated do they have data caps?
Get around 930Mbps down and 110 Mbps up wirelessly on my S24+ on our Vodafone connection.
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01-08-2024, 18:57
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Re: Openreach and associated do they have data caps?
That's to my main PC, which is behind my tp-link dual wan router, and then a 5 way switch.
The incoming connection feeds the router. The other wan connection is still VM atm.
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02-08-2024, 16:08
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Re: Openreach and associated do they have data caps?
I'm still stuck on my old connection, but it's great to see the progress being made with FTTP and other high-speed internet services.
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Re: Openreach and associated do they have data caps?
Neither BT nor EE have data caps.
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