Fastershire / Gigagclear 1000Mbps fibre to the property
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I can't wait to show this thread to my mate. He lives on a new development just south of Gloucester and has ADSL. He's constantly bitching about it.
He's been on to MP's and all sorts trying to get a better connection
He's been on to MP's and all sorts trying to get a better connection
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I find that installation kit, complete with tube of "general purpose silicone", both endearing and hilarious.
I find that installation kit, complete with tube of "general purpose silicone", both endearing and hilarious.
I'm surprised they didn't include the drill bit to be honest
Soldato
Are you going deeper? That looks too shallow!
Wireless should not be viewed as an alternative to FTTH. There is no alternative, FTTH is the most reliable and fastest way to deliver data. Every year furthers the need for widespread FTTH.
All other data delivery methods suffer from interference, limited range and reliability. They are all antiquated.
Once the rest of Europe completely humiliates us Broadband speed/reliability wise, the government will be forced to step in and fund a full FTTH rollout.
Yes, that's just the tarmac removed to see where I can sit the pipe as the footings for the edging strips are getting in the way.
Having now seen the termination ends on the fibre, they will (should) slide up a bit of blue PVC water pipe quite nicely..
Planning on doing that now... subject to modification of course
Plan be will be bed of sand, pegged or mortared in, covered with sand and then tarmaced back over.
Soldato
Good stuff, I think you mean MDPE water pipe? I can't remember which is cheaper out of Blue, Black and Yellow.
Blue is potable drinking water, black is non potable and yellow will make anyone who finds It with a spade run for miles in fear of gas
Blue is potable drinking water, black is non potable and yellow will make anyone who finds It with a spade run for miles in fear of gas
The cable has entered the building!!!!!!!!!
Finally had a decent weekend where it all came together.
It's been a lot of too cold / too wet / no tools / too knackered to do it this last month.
One last hole up into the attic after dinner and I think we are there.. been a pain in the ass feeding all the cable through as I only needed about 50m but self install kit was 100m and it can't be cut
So it's been birds nest city today and a few toys left the pram but it's underground (in black waste water pipe 20mm O/D (basically the same as the blue MDPE but UV stabilised))
Finally had a decent weekend where it all came together.
It's been a lot of too cold / too wet / no tools / too knackered to do it this last month.
One last hole up into the attic after dinner and I think we are there.. been a pain in the ass feeding all the cable through as I only needed about 50m but self install kit was 100m and it can't be cut
So it's been birds nest city today and a few toys left the pram but it's underground (in black waste water pipe 20mm O/D (basically the same as the blue MDPE but UV stabilised))
Hurry up gigaclear come to my village (they are at the next village and have flyered ours)
I shall have to have a conversation with Gigaclear I think..
As although the speed is fast... it is not what I signed up for!
If they can't deliver it after no doubt jumping through a load of test hoops and bull**** I will downgrade the service to their 200/200 for about half the cost!
Current speeds tonight on their test page..
As although the speed is fast... it is not what I signed up for!
If they can't deliver it after no doubt jumping through a load of test hoops and bull**** I will downgrade the service to their 200/200 for about half the cost!
Current speeds tonight on their test page..
Those stats are all kinds of wrong anyway - you aren't reading at 7Gbps for example.
Try a bunch of devices, all wired, see what you get. I think Gigaclear only backhaul with a single 10Gbps link per cabinet so it's not unexpected that you won't get a solid gigabit all the time.
If they host an FTP server for the benefit of speed testing then try that to rule out their own interconnects.
Try a bunch of devices, all wired, see what you get. I think Gigaclear only backhaul with a single 10Gbps link per cabinet so it's not unexpected that you won't get a solid gigabit all the time.
If they host an FTP server for the benefit of speed testing then try that to rule out their own interconnects.
Isn't it funny how we've always to be embarrassed/shamed into it.
