Good, so will global warming - let's wipe out a few billion people

In the meantime, the broadband is not fixed, and no amount of championing public ownership vs private ownership will change that

that will also happen regardless especially considering this government thinks it will achieve net zero by 2050 lmao

it won't, but that's another topic

no government could and still have a functioning democracy and civilised society remaining at the end of it

Yes but coming back to the broadband. companies dont have the capital to implement a wide scale fibre rollout that governments can. So tell me wouldn't it better for you to get FTTP instead of FTTC?

cos from the cabinet point its still copper wire so if youre paying 35 for a 100mbps fibre connection, and you live say 100 meters from that cabinet point your speed drops from 100 to 45

FTTP would fix the immediate problem, FTTC would not - it's likely we already have FTTC since fibre is available here

but you still pay for the full price of the 100mbps connection

the thing is, it would save the government loads of money to upgrade the infrastructure but to do that requires massive funding that companies won't do.

i have fttn its pretty bad for some people but im lucky i get full speead

how close do you live to the node

700 meters

the speed should drop though

especially if you're 700 meters

nope i get 94mbits a second down and 42 up

Maybe they probably have a node closer to you

Bunch of large events being cancelled in the UK now, including several football matches

https://mobile.twitter.com/STrosterud/status/1238147269465116672

copper literally slows the speed

i get 5.4 down and 1.2 up
But more than anything, I want a connection that isn't constantly going up and down when the wind blows

nothing worse than slow internet

Yes ther eis

i would go insane if i didnt have the internet i have now

Unreliable internet is worse than slow internet

yeah thats true actually

the UK will be on its knees if the Covi19 gets worse

its not if but when

just look at italy as a basline

italy isn't a baseline

italy's actually the worst case scenario

there is a very strong possibility that other country's will be like taly in a few weeks to a month

the thing is that this outbreak would only show up properly in a few weeks now that many more are being confirmedin the UK

elderly demographic, literally no attempt to mitigate or contain, healthservice overrun

yeah they're saying the UK is behind by around 20 days to Italy

my faulty broadband is far more of concern to me than covid19

and they still haven't closed schools

you need it for self isolatuon

isolation

https://twitter.com/SiouxsieW/status/1237275231783284736?s=20

EPLs cancelled