Rant - 3MB 'Fibre Broadband'

the_darjeeling said:
that's great, did they expedite planned fibre or add you to the rollout plan?
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It was in the go live stage since 2014. Every time it go to the go live stage itnwas put back 6 months again. It should have gone live in June this year (again) but then got out back to December while in touch with openreach. The team spoke to the local project manager, not sure if they pushed him to get it done or gave a nudge to say it's on they radar now.

Either way it went live today. Prob the last postcode in our town to go live.
 
Thanks Vanquish, now in contact with Clive and the local Council.

Disco, it does but its currently down due to bad weather can you believe it!
 
CEO (well business complaints manager) got back to me within minutes, hopefully under investigation now - hopefully we can have another success story.
 
Vanquish-Storm said:
It was in the go live stage since 2014. Every time it go to the go live stage itnwas put back 6 months again. It should have gone live in June this year (again) but then got out back to December while in touch with openreach. The team spoke to the local project manager, not sure if they pushed him to get it done or gave a nudge to say it's on they radar now.

Either way it went live today. Prob the last postcode in our town to go live.
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Enjoy the Above ADSL speeds :D its a shame it only took two years :(, I might give it a shot to try and get my cabinet added to the rollout plan for FTTC or at least further on than "we are exploring solutions". Not a chance in hell of FTTP at this stage even if I have a feeling the main trunk to the exchange runs along the top of the development
 
Just had this through from Superfast West Yorkshire Rollout;

Hello Tom,


We have been corresponding with our programme delivery partner regarding your situation. Openreach and our understanding is that your area is presently planned for delivery within Spring/Summer 2018.

We shall see.....
 
the_darjeeling said:
Enjoy the Above ADSL speeds :D its a shame it only took two years :(, I might give it a shot to try and get my cabinet added to the rollout plan for FTTC or at least further on than "we are exploring solutions". Not a chance in hell of FTTP at this stage even if I have a feeling the main trunk to the exchange runs along the top of the development
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Being greedy though we had access to Virgin but I will never use them again unless they make big changes

sith said:
Joe was the person who got back to me
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Different person to me, keep in touch with them. If its planned for Spring/Summer then they can make sure that happens.
 
That's the plan - the local council have been in touch this morning also and I was cc'd into a large email with quite a number of local councillors looking after the Leeds Broadband roll-out, but non were aware of the above, which is why I'm a little suspicious.
 
sith said:
Thanks Vanquish, now in contact with Clive and the local Council.

Disco, it does but its currently down due to bad weather can you believe it!
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Seeing as fibre doesn't seem to be happening any time soon, I'd focus on getting the best from your ADSL line. With a attenuation of around 40db, you should be able to get around 8mbit/s or 1mbyte/s.
 
Just had a BT Openreach engineer around regarding getting the best out of my line (good timing Disco) and he said the same as above, I should be getting better, but he thinks the wiring isnt very good. He also said that I may get better speeds going back to ADSL due to the lower frequency being sent down the line - does that sound right to anyone else?
 
In your original post didn't you say that the connection improved from 1Mbps to 3Mbps when you moved to a FTTC connection?

There are distances at which ADSL will be faster than VDSL. I don't think you've mentioned how far from the exchange you are so there's no way of knowing what your predicted ADSL speed would be (what does the BT availability checker tell you).
 
sith said:
He also said that I may get better speeds going back to ADSL due to the lower frequency being sent down the line - does that sound right to anyone else?
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Hit and miss really - in reality you'll probably get the same results whether VDSL or ADSL the only thing that can somewhat save a long, poor quality, line is tweaking the SNR margin by hand knowing the conditions you are working with (part of which might be using a chipset known to have good compatibility with the BT equipment and/or with poor quality lines).
 
I'm suprised he got offered fibre at that distance (3KM). Every time i had a look at fibre, websites basically told me lolno. SNR tweaking doubled the speed of my connection though you need a router that is able to do so.
 
sith said:
He also said that I may get better speeds going back to ADSL due to the lower frequency being sent down the line - does that sound right to anyone else?
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Yeah it does (2.2MHz for ADSL2+, 12MHz+ for VDSL/2) but only if the line is capable of operating at those frequencies. At 3KM it'll be operating much the same as ADSL2.

Also, you need to factor in the extra loop distance from the street cabinet to the exchange unless you're connected directly. If the cabinet is a further 1-2KM away then you'd probably get like 2 to 1Mbps on ADSL2 with your line in it's current state.
 
Success!!!! After discussing the problems we have had with broadband with the local council, and emailing the CEO of Openreach I received an email today confirming we have been added to the Spring 2018 rollout, and have been given a new cabinet number. Works expected to be completed by March 2018!!! Even though this is still a while away, I'm over the moon.
 
Definitely feel your pain.

My parents bought a house which was rural and moved just as broadband took off. For years I struggled with a 2Mbps line pleading with BT to put fibre to every home outside of their usual urban markets.

I moved out circa 2012 so was glad when the new house could get 50Mbps, but hated going over to my parents as it meant going back to the 90s in comparison.

Fast forward 2 years ago... they moved out and bought a new place and BT just approached the new owners about running fibre to the home!!! This is something like 2km from the cabinet too, so I was highly surprised.

People that have access to 80/20, 220Mbps or even higher (new builds with 1Gbps) broadband without considering it are lucky. There are still many areas suffering with abysmal internet.
 
sith said:
Success!!!! After discussing the problems we have had with broadband with the local council, and emailing the CEO of Openreach I received an email today confirming we have been added to the Spring 2018 rollout, and have been given a new cabinet number. Works expected to be completed by March 2018!!! Even though this is still a while away, I'm over the moon.
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I ended up emailing him too after someone posted his email here,he directly replied and apparently passed on info on our area to one of his team but just waiting now for a definitive answer...here's hoping?

If the 10mbps USO goes ahead then seeing as our street gets <10Mbps they will eventually have to upgrade our cabinet,obviously i'd rather they be able to do it next year then wait until 2020 :(
 
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