Testing 5Gbps residential FTTP with Fibre Heroes

By Nathan Morgan

On 28th March 2023 the day I had been waiting over 3 years for arrived my FTTP install at home! I’ve gone from a FTTC copper line that ran at 30mbps down, 6mbps up and a 5G connection that was not really 5G to a 5Gbps FTTP line that I’m trailing for Full Fibre Fibre…

Cost of living crisis: Cut the cost of your Broadband

By Nathan Morgan

With the Cost of living crisis getting worse with energy prices set to soar in April 2023 as well as many broadband providers increasing their prices by up to 16% there is still one area you can save money: cut the cost of your Broadband bill. In this post we will explore how you can…

Three 5G Home Broadband Review 2023

By Nathan Morgan

Last year I tried out Three’s 4G home broadband service which you can read and watch the video here. Nearly a year on and due to my FTTC line degrading further and still waiting for any FTTP I decided to give Three’s 5G home broadband a try. Fancy trying out Three’s broadband get upto £40…

GPON vs XGS-PON vs PTP Full Fibre

By Nathan Morgan

There is an explosion in full fibre broadband in the UK with dozens upon dozens of companies building networks. In lots of Towns and City’s there are multiple full fibre FTTP networks being built but although they all say Full Fibre does not mean they are the same in this post we will explain the…

Is your broadband suffering from Bufferbloat?

By Nathan Morgan

Most of us measure the performance of our broadband connections on speed and run a speed test to judge the performance of our connection. Speed is not the only thing to consider for broadband performance latency plays a big part and that can be impacted by Bufferbloat which can turn even a 1Gbps broadband  connection…