I am about 4 weeks into moving house (no chain iirc). I saw the house through Rightmove and their broadband checker gives (still) the thumbs-up regarding getting fibre and cable at my postcode.
I was on the phone yesterday to BT regarding moving over my broadband to the new address.
It turns out the end 7 or so homes on the street (including mine) out of around 35 homes are connected to a different cabinet at the exchange which isn't Fibre enabled. The other cabinet is enabled .
Ah well I thought, there is always Virgin so rang them today and got exactly the same issue, last few homes no cable.
The last few homes were built more recently and appears to be why there is the cut off point.
The house can get normal ADSL, but is 1.8km away from the exchange so estimated around 3 - 5.5Mb.
Im used to getting 76Mb with my current Fibre and not sure I could cope now with the lack of speed.
I've done a bit of digging on the thinkbroadband forums and it seems there are no plans to enable Fibre at the cabinet for the new home.
I am thinking of pulling out of the house move because of this, I feel bad for the Vendor as we are quite far into the process. The house is very nice, not perfect but ticks mobiles for me except this.
Am I being daft or is broadband speed that important these days??
I was on the phone yesterday to BT regarding moving over my broadband to the new address.
It turns out the end 7 or so homes on the street (including mine) out of around 35 homes are connected to a different cabinet at the exchange which isn't Fibre enabled. The other cabinet is enabled .
Ah well I thought, there is always Virgin so rang them today and got exactly the same issue, last few homes no cable.
The last few homes were built more recently and appears to be why there is the cut off point.
The house can get normal ADSL, but is 1.8km away from the exchange so estimated around 3 - 5.5Mb.
Im used to getting 76Mb with my current Fibre and not sure I could cope now with the lack of speed.
I've done a bit of digging on the thinkbroadband forums and it seems there are no plans to enable Fibre at the cabinet for the new home.
I am thinking of pulling out of the house move because of this, I feel bad for the Vendor as we are quite far into the process. The house is very nice, not perfect but ticks mobiles for me except this.
Am I being daft or is broadband speed that important these days??