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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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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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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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 :D (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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Just tested my openreach FTTP and not bad, my ISP brands it as 900/100.

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...chmentid=31061

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Even better download today (about 10 mins ago).

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...chmentid=31121

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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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Get around 930Mbps down and 110 Mbps up wirelessly on my S24+ on our Vodafone connection.

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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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Neither BT nor EE have data caps.

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Not seen data caps around for a long time now.

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TBH I wasnt sure about mine (Aquiss) - on checking, they have "No caps, no limits".

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I suppose the only question left to ask then, now (finally) on my postcode checker it shows Openreach in addition to VM is which ISP to choose, there seem to be tens of them. Presumably they lease bandwidth from Openreach.

Any ideas/suggestions ?

Currently enjoying 350/35 from VM wouldn't want less than this.