BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

[t2na]

The house I’m buying only has FTTC, and it looks like the build for FTTP has been pushed back.

It’s gone from building soon to planning to build in the future - not sure if this is just a change in language, but hoping it isn’t too long.



I’ve had a form of FTTP since 2018, so would be weird going back to 50 Mb

Made the same move when we bought this house, went from a lovely 1GB line to the house down to a 35mb line. Ended up getting a second line installed and we've managed pretty well for the past 2 years, Open Reach are installing FTTP right now so we should have it back by the end of the summer but it's been around 2.5 years of much slower speeds.

You do adapt and get used to it. Two lines helped a lot, not sure we'd have managed that well on just a single line.

 

[ChrisD.]

Days like today I'm glad for 1.6 Gbps with EE, having to download multiple software stack builds over 100 GB each.

 

[thewanted]

Are there any Openreach-based ISPs which have a better reputation for routing/contention/latency/better NAT'ing etc. than others? Evidence of this would be even better.

My Plusnet FTTP went live last week and it's performing very well, but I'm just curious if there are some tangible differences between them.

 

[Vertigo]

So, after years of "we have no plans whatsoever to do anything with your road" from Openreach, today i get back from holiday to find they've dug the road up and, from the looks of it, laid fibre!

Of course the checker still says "nope" but how long is it likely to be before this is live? Note that the general area has been for a while, so presumably just a case of hooking up the new street cabling to the wider network?

 

[Yaayuh!]

So, after years of "we have no plans whatsoever to do anything with your road" from Openreach, today i get back from holiday to find they've dug the road up and, from the looks of it, laid fibre!

Of course the checker still says "nope" but how long is it likely to be before this is live? Note that the general area has been for a while, so presumably just a case of hooking up the new street cabling to the wider network?

I'm convinced their tracker is a big pile of poo

 

[t2na]

Of course the checker still says "nope" but how long is it likely to be before this is live? Note that the general area has been for a while, so presumably just a case of hooking up the new street cabling to the wider network?

Checker still says no for us and I’ve been watching the guys lay the fibre lines every day for the past week..!

Had a brief chat with one the other day and he said they usually expect it to be 6-8 weeks from when they’ve finished their part to it being ‘live’ and available.

 

[thewanted]

Checker still says no for us and I’ve been watching the guys lay the fibre lines every day for the past week..!

Had a brief chat with one the other day and he said they usually expect it to be 6-8 weeks from when they’ve finished their part to it being ‘live’ and available.

Keep checking the BT wholesale site. The Openreach one is quite delayed by comparison.

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