BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

Noticed this morning that EE are doing 900Mb for £25.99 and 1.6GB for £33.99 through uSwitch, with up to £300 contract buyout.
 
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Asking for someone else, they were planned to have BT full fibre installed, but BT couldn’t do it on the day because of having care line. So BT need to rearrange another visit.

What would be the hurdle with regards to care line?
 
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batfink said:
I've just had similar. Virgin installed in the street a few years ago but the Openreach checker has always stated "we have no plans....", then randomly they turned up a few weeks ago laying fibre under the street (all ducting already in place) but the checker continued to say" we have no plans.... ". Three weeks later and I get an email from Openreach stating full fibre is now live. 5 mins later and my order was placed!

Only issue is that the duct to my house is blocked under my neighbour's drive. Virgin stopped trying at the point my neigbour refused to have his drive dug up. Openreach came and tried this week but still failed to get a cable in so they're going to try a "cut and pull" in a few weeks time, pulling out the old copper cable at the same times pulling through the fibre. They say the copper cable moves freely so it should be straightforward, fingers crossed, or I'll be left with no service and needing to persuade my neighbour to allow his drive to be dug up!
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Cut and draw method worked a treat. Engineer wasn't impressed when he turned up and hadn't been warned the duct was blocked but he persevered and did a great job.

900/110 service is great but completely unnecessary. Having been on 32Mb FTTC for 10+ years, I'm still in the 'wow, this is amazing' phase.
 
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beachBOYken said:
Asking for someone else, they were planned to have BT full fibre installed, but BT couldn’t do it on the day because of having care line. So BT need to rearrange another visit.

What would be the hurdle with regards to care line?
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likely still have analogue only hardware from careline.

The below should help explain a little better, my local council is actually on top of something for a change lol
 
Openreach had us listed as coming to our area soon, but I live in a mews, and Openreach just went by and added FTTC to the entire street we are connected to, and simultaneously we seem to have dropped off the rollout map - not sure what the issue was but pretty disappointed
 
batfink said:
Cut and draw method worked a treat. Engineer wasn't impressed when he turned up and hadn't been warned the duct was blocked but he persevered and did a great job.

900/110 service is great but completely unnecessary. Having been on 32Mb FTTC for 10+ years, I'm still in the 'wow, this is amazing' phase.
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Yea I have the same connection having previous been on 80/20 since forever.

I cannot see a reason why any faster would be necessary for everyday usage.

I download like 100GB from Steam in about 20mins.
 
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Devil_Spawn said:
Openreach had us listed as coming to our area soon, but I live in a mews, and Openreach just went by and added FTTC to the entire street we are connected to, and simultaneously we seem to have dropped off the rollout map - not sure what the issue was but pretty disappointed
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This is exactly what happened to us. They cabled all the streets around us but missed our cul-de-sac a few years ago. Ever since then, the Openreach checker stated "we have no plans to install in your area". Then one day, they just turned up and started cabling our street but even a few weeks later, the checker still said the same, right up to the point I got the email stating FTTP was now available to order. I now take the Openreach checker results with a pinch of salt!
 
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