For a long time in the UK almost all internet providers used BT Openreach's[1] infrastructure, except for Virgin. [1] BT Openreach - which all the internet pro

For a long time in the UK almost all internet providers used BT Openreach's[1] infrastructure, except for Virgin. [1] BT Openreach - which all the internet providers except Virgin use. - This goes back to BT and before it was privatized, the post office. [2] Virgin, took over Nynex infrastructure and put in fibre optic cables. Unfortunately, Virgin has some pretty bad caps. I had pretty bad down speed in London on copper cables, but my provider, Zen Internet uses the FritzBox router - it had good enough diagnostics to tell me there was a problem between the router and the box on the street, eventually got an engineer to come out and I got 70Mbit down and about 20mbit up. Since I moved to a different road in London, everything is fibre, I could get 1gbit, but I got the 100mbit plan which works out about not so different from my previous plan in practice.