Plusnet vs Be-Fibre - Real World Speed Test Comparison - Which should you choose ?

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Here's my real world comparison between Plusnet Fibre Broadband ( upto 72Mb package ) and BE-FIBRE Full Fibre Broadband that I have had installed about a week.
Fibre Heroes installed the new cable to the pole about 50m away from the house and an engineer fitted the magic boxes outside and inside the house - very professional, polite and helpful throughout.
I haven't cancelled Plusnet yet - in case of any delay or problems with BE-FIBRE so decided to do a proper speed test comparison - I literally couldn't find a decent one anywhere online.
I know the video is quite long at just over 20 minutes ( but blimey it uploaded QUICKLY ) - and I hope you find the info helpful if you're unsure if it will make any difference to you at home or work.
My house is a solid built 1930's brick house and WiFi signals do not penetrate easily through the walls - hence even on a 900Mb Fibre connection I don't see speeds anywhere like that upstairs at all.
It's important to note !
If your phones, tablets, laptops or firesticks etc are OLD, then the chances are you won't get anywhere near fast connections - because the tech inside them simply won't allow it. Research your items and see what network / WiFi speed capabilities they can reach.
There's no point crying like a little girl if your 900Mb Super duper router can only talk to your prehistoric laptop at a maximum of 70Mb per second. That's like buying a Ferrari Car and putting a fiat 500 engine in it.
Hope this helps - let me know if it helped you make up your mind in the comments....
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@Lebontempviendra 11 месяцев назад

Great video really useful explanation of wifi / fibre performance in a real world scenario

@SLOPPY1001 Месяц назад

Nice video. Pretty much what I expected to see for the speeds. I think the single biggest reason obviously apart from the speed, zero buffering when most of the family is using the net, that was the decision maker for me. Thanks for the video buddy.

@john1040 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for a great video, Befibre is coming to are area soon & i can not wait at the minute we have BT & on a good day we get 20mg on hardwired not good on wi fi, can not wait for good broadband, once again thank you for great video

@tgheretford 7 месяцев назад

I was in exactly the same situation as you, moved from Plusnet to Be Fibre, up to and including the second MX4200 in a mesh set-up and covering up the LED! My contract was about to end and Plusnet wanted double the price for a slightly slower promised speed. Now rock solid 940Mbps download and 700-900Mbps upload on Ethernet. Wi-Fi on Wi-Fi 6 devices can vary but I can usually get up to 920Mbps on my ethernet backhaul "mesh" network. It can drop to 550Mbps from the main router (which seems to be a router problem, not a BeFibre problem as it also happens on a local LAN test using OpenSpeedTest that bypasses the ISP) until I reset the mesh network and then it returns to 920Mbps.

@mazz2001 10 месяцев назад

excellent speeds

@CoreyFPV Год назад

Going to ring you bud👏🏻👏🏻

@jokernstuffshy6103 9 месяцев назад

This really isn’t a fair test , your testing 2 different products, one being old copper line on Plusnet and other being full fiber to premises , Plusnet do the same speeds on there full fiber packages as your be product does

@captainfpv6775 9 месяцев назад

This is a perfectly fair test. If you're thinking of getting fibre what are the speed differences you can expect using your current phones, tablets, laptops or pc etc. In other words is it worth upgrading, or as I did paying £100 to leave plusnet and get way faster speeds, ridiculously quick downloads and know that if I upgrade my phone from an old Huawei p30 lite to one with a newer network spec in it I'll get faster speeds still. Also Plusnet don't do full fibre in my area. I paid plusnet £100 to leave them and paid £14 a month for 3 months to BeFibre, I also received £120 in referral payments from BeFibre and still pay less per month than I did with plusnet. It's a no brainier. If you want a speed comparison between two different full fibre products at the same household then you're watching the wrong video for you.

@jokernstuffshy6103 9 месяцев назад

@@captainfpv6775 but it’s an unfair speed test , you can not take copper wired broadband and compare it to a full fiber one, it’s like comparing a 1960s computer with a 2024 computer, a fair world test would be using both full fiber to see what the difference is , I get over 900 mps down for £40 a month connected . And more than half on wifi , I’m not faulting you for getting your full fiber just pointing out that the test wasn’t fair , I expected a product comparison, but this was just showing what you got from your new full fiber to your old copper one , Maybe a better title is what’s needed , and tbh the Plusnet gave you decent wifi considering your tech used , I’ve seen a lot worse from bigger companies, but yes full fiber is a game changer, I was stuck without full fiber in an area and it was horrible as there was no FFTC installation available, Unfortunately it’s not widely available, but if you have no other option than copper wired broadband, there’s not much you can do , at least we’re seeing better speeds than the days of getting 17 mbps max which usually only got you 2-7 mbps , average speed tests in uk now are around 27MBPS compared to USA which is a shocking 15MBPS , uk is also ranked 16th in world for broadband prices with much better penetration and better prices , The USA is ranked shocking 29-32 which is extremely more expensive . If you can get full fiber it’s only a couple pound more for superior speeds , even the 150 is cheaper than FFTC broadband with speeds from 67 down

@johnpurkis9872 8 месяцев назад

Whats more important to me is reliability of speed, could you test at different times of the day. @@captainfpv6775

@Simlife101 Месяц назад

@@captainfpv6775 but your title is misleading. You should have titled it plusnet adsl vs full fibre. It’s like showing people the difference between 720p and 4K and saying it’s a fair test.

@seesharpoptical6625 2 месяца назад

Great insight as I have just had my increased bill from Virgin.

@johnpurkis9872 8 месяцев назад

How many WIFI devices would BE fibre support without drop out. I would be happy with a lower 49Mb speed if it was solid all day.

@captainfpv6775 8 месяцев назад

How many do you need ? We are a family of 5 adults and have 35 WiFi connections and 3 hard wired.

@johnpurkis9872 8 месяцев назад

We are similar, four adults around 35 WiFi devices including 8 smart sockets which are 2.4Ghz. Does BEFIBRE support 2.4 and 5ghz. Have you still got no issues with BEfibre? What are your Wi-Fi speeds at peak times does it drop off?

@captainfpv6775 8 месяцев назад

I don't notice any drop off in speed. My PC is hardwired and WiFi, but I use the Wifi For my drone connections. I have absolutely no regrets with moving to BeFibre at all. It's gone off a couple of times, but came back pretty quickly - I haven't had the problems I have seen from other people. It's important to know - the Wifi Speeds you get are based mainly on the tech accessing the WiFi. As i showed in my video - old slow network adapters in old tech = slower connections. As I type I have a wired 680Mb connection to my computer - Downloads are rapid, but I love the upload speeds to RU-vid. What used to take AGES, now takes minutes or even less. I'm happy with it. @@johnpurkis9872

@Chrissykes78 4 месяца назад

Fibre broadband vs full fibre broadband. Can you please explain the difference ?

@captainfpv6775 4 месяца назад

www.techradar.com/computing/wi-fi-broadband/whats-the-difference-between-fibre-broadband-and-full-fibre-broadband#:~:text=Full%20fibre%20broadband%20packages%20are,are%20used%20by%20FTTC%20connections.

@bigmaxcc Год назад

😂all these fibre plans brilliant Yet I’m stuck sort of country side nearest town centre 30mins walk a lot less if you drive You do have bt sky etc but it’s all 30down 11up The final Hail Mary is VM gig1 which good in enough 👍

@mazz2001 8 месяцев назад

30 download and 11 upload is pretty decent, you most likely wouldnt need more than those speeds.

@Davis36749 7 месяцев назад

Very good, I’d just like to say belated birthday wishes… I noticed in the first lot of tests you were connected to a Spanish test server so not really fair… secondly. Sorry this annoys me, MB/s is megabytes per second and Mbps is Mega bits per second… it’s like saying you’re car is fast as it does 100 kmh yet the other car only does 62 mph 8 bits in a byte, 1024 bits in a kilobyte 1024 k in a megabyte and 1024 Megabytes in a gigabyte 1000 Mbps (Gbps) roughly transfers data at 115 Megabytes per second (approximately). Just some helpful advice, not meant to belittle you 👍

@allansutcliffe648 Месяц назад

you didnt mention any cost difference

@captainfpv6775 Месяц назад

It works out about the same, but I think the fibre is actually cheaper. I cant remember the exact cists from before. With Plusnet I was also paying for a landline, but now my home phone - using the same number is with an IP phone company and costs £3.60 a month. My calls using the IP landline setup has cost me less than £10 in a year - total.

@allansutcliffe648 Месяц назад

@@captainfpv6775 Hi thank you for your answer. I am interested in your comment RE- IP landline less than £10 pa What is this are you saying that you can subscribe to a "landline" separately,and if so can you retain your existing number? For more information?

@captainfpv6775 Месяц назад

@@allansutcliffe648 I ported my landline number to 'VOIPFONE' in the UK. VERY HELPFUL. I chose to pay £2 per month for the porting and them hosting the number - or I could have paid about £20 ish and paid in one go. The actual cost of the service to have the IP fone service from them is £1.60 a month ! PLUS the £2.00 I explain above. I chose the PAYG option because we hatdly use the home phone - but my missus simply had to keep it............. Anyway - I put a tenner on the account for calls a year ago and still have £5.64 left - there's no time limit to use it. Oh, just remembered - you can save the £2 a month if you like and just use a free number they allocate you - but you would lose your current home number. Hope that helps.

@Poopy-kc9fs 11 месяцев назад

Mate my download on me xbox is about 500kilabytes on a good day and I’m getting this wow

@johnpurkis9872 8 месяцев назад

with who? Surely not BE Fibre

@niallquinn4136 9 месяцев назад

I’m confused is this an advert for be fibre , because there is no test comparison between the the 2 , it’s a no brainer , any full fibre your going to get same speeds , what’s important is picking one that’s best value for your buck . Reading the comments the price difference between the 2 is not much a couple quid and some cases even cheaper , if ya can get full fibre grab it . Look around see what offers there are .

@captainfpv6775 9 месяцев назад

This isn't an advert by BeFibre, its something I did to show real speed increases for MY tech, connected to the new Broadband. You'll see that my old phone is nowhere near the quoted speeds of 900mb, but its still faster in the same house as normal broadband. My wifes older phone than mine was absolutely rubbish upstairs, because the old router was almost directly below the bedroom, whereas now its a lot further away in the living room - in a 1930's proper brick house. If anyone thinks they will get 900mb because that's what they sign upto they can think again - old tech is naff connection, simple as that. That's also what this video shows. I'm happy with it, my PC is hardwired and gets almost 820Mb as I type this. I agree, shop around - it's a no brainer.

@niallquinn4136 8 месяцев назад

@@captainfpv6775 You would benefit in getting a Wi-Fi 6 router it drastically increased the speeds and distance of your Wi-Fi , in my whole house to more than double than what suppliers router delivered even to end of my garden I get 570

@swatboy79 5 месяцев назад

You can’t blame the internal infrastructure. Besides you get more concurrent speeds and who needs to go that fast (gbit) on a phone. When all else fails go wired.

@captainfpv6775 5 месяцев назад

What do you mean you can't blame the internal Infrastructure ? Do you mean brick walls don't make a difference to a WiFi signal? or do you mean the different internal protocols of any piece of wifi enabled receiver such as a phone or tablet makes no difference?

@swatboy79 5 месяцев назад

@@captainfpv6775 Obstacles aside (every building is made differently). There are so many flavors of WiFi now up to WiFi 7 (6e just brought in the 6GHz band). You can't fully compare your old VDSL line with a 900mbps connection if you just rely on the provided router and Wi-Fi to compare it (They are rarely good). Best you could do is have multiple access points at all corners of the house (WiFi 6, 6e, 7) and connected back over a 1 gbit back-haul wired connection (even then 1gbit is old hat now, 2.5gbit and 10gbit are wired Ethernet are becoming more available now). Just think, you can actually saturate a 1gbit wired connection with just the Internet alone (not including anything else!). This aside the point is, where a 900mbps connection comes into its own is less contention with the people using the same connection (assuming you are not on all one pale WiFi access point and in a heavy contested Wi-fi location). If you want the full speed, get 6GHz (WiFi 6e) running on a 320MHz bandwidth and a modern phone and you will easy see over 1gbps over WiFi (distance depending) or go wired (mobiles aside) or a mix of both.

@KJW648 11 месяцев назад

You can't test using WiFi, as it limits the speed.

@captainfpv6775 11 месяцев назад

Hahaha That's the whole point of the video. This is a REAL WORLD speed test using devices people use in their homes to access the internet, such as phones and tablets. What it proves, as I have stated you don't get the full 900MB - that speed id to the box on the wall. Depending on your home or office you will get less than the quoted speed, BUT WAY MORE THAN YOU GOT from bog standard broadband. My wired connection is around 800mb - using a wire about 15m long to the router box, but people sit on their settee, or lay in the bath on their phones or tablets using WiFi - and don't trail wires round the house with adapters to swap a RJ45 network cable to a phone connection ( if you can even get those things ) - so people use WiFi. Depending on your phone or tablet etc age - their wifi tech varies - newer is faster, older tech specs are slower - so the newest phone will likely get a much faster speed via wifi than older phones - as I have shown in the video. Did you watch it ?

@KJW648 11 месяцев назад

@@captainfpv6775 Did, but nothing surprising it just show how bad are companies like Plus net. I am on City Fibre for the last few years, at around 920Mb, up and down. Have a mesh unit for high speed game consoles, 2 hard wired PC's and mesh smart devices all round around the house. All works great ....