Probably an advantage as Openreach deal with the council all the time. If it was private land wayleaves and a Permission To Work form would need to be completed which could have taken months to get.My FTTP install today failed. Apparently the span between the two poles they were planning on using is 90m far in excess of the 68m max span. Openreach guy said that an extra pole would need to be out up but wouldn't give any timeframes. I'd have expected this to be checked out before they showed up.
Has anyone come across this issue? What's the average time to get a pole erected? It will be on council land, but not sure if that will be an advantage or a hinderence.
It’s not informing the council, it’s asking for permission. And it depends on where the pole is. @hooj is the pole on the pavement? Will any traffic lights be needed or even road closure to do it? These will exponentially add time to the work being completed.I'd imagine to put a pole up on public land Openreach just need to inform the council that they are going to do it, and to tell them how they are going to manage the road closure if required. It should happen pretty quickly.
Might get away with temporary lights for one day. With luck you might have the pole in before Christmas. Check one http://one.network for anything planned close to you.It's not right on the pavement (set back 3 or 4 metres) but I would think they would need to be careful when erecting the pole.
Yeah I've resigned myself to it not being here before the new year. Very frustrating but hopefully should be pretty quick once the pole is up.I wouldn't bet on Christmas to be honest, treat it as a nice surprise if it goes in before the new year
Can anyone explain why I need a BT engineer visit to upgrade from an 80Mb product to a 150Mb product?
I have G.Fast, been super reliable and consistently good for the first month and half. OR needs to visit to change your master socket, provide a G.Fast capable modem if you've gone with TalkTalk or EE (BT and Sky have it built in to their router) and then to fiddle in the cab to put your line on the higher frequency stuff (the smaller G.Fast pod attached to the side of the local street cab).
Mine was an absolute legend and moved my master socket to the other side of the house too as it was in a rubbish position. I run a MT992 modem connected to a USG, all good so far!
My FTTP install today failed. Apparently the span between the two poles they were planning on using is 90m far in excess of the 68m max span. Openreach guy said that an extra pole would need to be out up but wouldn't give any timeframes. I'd have expected this to be checked out before they showed up.
Same. My g.fast synced at 150 & has stayed there solid. No drops, no slowdown, low pings. Very happy with it.
My estimated speed is around 230Mbps if I went on the higher package but I opted for the 150, not sure the extra 80Mpbs justifies the extra £10 a month, but after the complete nightmare I had with VM in the village before I moved down the road, it's nice just to be on a quality and decent connection
The Home Hub 5 has a VDSL modem built in so you don't need the Huawei box.