No FTTP for 10 years?

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I have FTTC max speed around 60 megabit.

My area is not in the FTTP plans at all.. so based on government it could take minimum 2032 until I can get a higher speed.

I can't get virgin media.. although that's a whole separate story.

Do the government really expect us to continue to be on 60 megabit for the next 10 years. I find that ridiculous.

Other options are

Fibre on demand - damn expensive
Starlink- even more expensive

No 5g in my area either.
 
I'm unsure if your looking for advice or not?

60meg is pretty decent, no? Do you need more for work, could you request a discount if you go fibre on demand due to needing it?
 
I worked with 60 Mbps for 6 years, frustrating for large game downloads etc but perfectly usable day to day including working from home. It’s the upload that hurts!

Be sure to alt-nets such as City Fibre.
 
If you aren't on the published Openreach rollout it doesn't mean you won't be done. I only have access to 60Mbps FTTC at home and it's not hugely limiting. In any case there's nothing you can really do about it so worrying won't help.

If you're desperate for more speed you can put in a second FTTC and load balance them.
 
60mbps is pretty decent. Also highly unlikely there won't be fibre from someone within say 5 years. If you *really* need more you can pay, else be patient. Plenty of folk still on sub-5mbps DSL lines.
 
As above, 60 isnt that bad and perfectly serviceable for everything but the biggest downloads. Before getting FTTP all we got was 40, it was ‘fine’ in that we could stream anything but the big game downloads took awhile and took a bit of management.

If it makes you feel and better, my town was never on the BT roll out plan but one day about 18 months ago a couple of BT vans turned up in the street, installed all the equipment and pulled the fibre through the ducts and a few weeks later it was switched on. They were in and out in less than a day, I only knew about it because my neighbour spotted them.

That’s the same story for loads of towns, not on the plan but now have FTTP and the uptake seems to be pretty decent here.
 
I think mine is 30 mbps ish, so you're in decent shape. No plans for FTTP here either. With remote working it must now be a factor in moving house...
 
One way to lessen the burden of FTTPoD is to try and convince your neighbours to share in the civil engineering costs. You can get what is called a "desktop quote" from someone like Cerebus for free. Then if it is only extremely high (it will be as a minimum), and not eye wateringly so, then you can pay £250 (non refundable) to get an actual quote which also tells you how many properties it'd pass who can share in the install costs. I think I'd be canvasing local opinion before shelling out for the quote though. Still not all that cheap subscription wise once the service is installed (particularly compared to "proper" fibre products of similar speeds) and upload isn't all that but its probably worth your time to investigate if you're out of luck with other options.

You can get Government support too but with your current speeds that's only going to apply if you live in one of half a dozen counties: https://www.cerberusnetworks.co.uk/sites/all/PDF/Gigabit_Voucher_Schemes.pdf
 
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smeemi said:
I have FTTC max speed around 60 megabit.

My area is not in the FTTP plans at all.. so based on government it could take minimum 2032 until I can get a higher speed.

I can't get virgin media.. although that's a whole separate story.

Do the government really expect us to continue to be on 60 megabit for the next 10 years. I find that ridiculous.

Other options are

Fibre on demand - damn expensive
Starlink- even more expensive

No 5g in my area either.
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Same situation as me, but my current FTTC is 32mb... So count yourself lucky.
 
Yaayuh! said:
Same situation as me, but my current FTTC is 32mb... So count yourself lucky.
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But they are prioritising lower speed areas so you're more likely to get fttp than I am. Ie you will have 1000 megabit vs 60 megabit here that's 15 times different vs currently 30 vs 60 two times.
 
Openreach aren't prioritising lower speed areas for upgrades. Some situations where local authorities are entering into contracts with Openreach will have them only spending money on low speed areas, but 32Mbps already counts as 'superfast' so it's unlikely that applies here.

Openreach build in the easiest locations first, which is why loads of post-2000 ducted housing estates have been upgraded, because 3 days work gets you a couple hundred new customers.
 
I have Virgin Media in my area but still choose to have plusnet 60Mb over Virgin.

I had nothing but lies from Indian call centres when I was with Virgin.
 
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