The ladies on the Parish Council just love their flower baskets.
It made me think of, Last of the Summer Wine.
BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion
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It made me think of, Last of the Summer Wine.
How are you finding it. Making a change from BT after 20 plus years as they are not good to existing customers
Sorry when I said upgraded I meant I finally ordered it, not going live for 2 weeks. My neighbours have had it for 2 months though and love it. Not a single drop in connection in that time. They definitely said it was worth the extra money just for the stable connection.
No worries. Good enough by the sounds of it
Hmm, something interesting on mine that has changed since yesterday. It's not available yet (no date yet) but the numbers has changed from 300Mbps down 50Mbps up checking the BT Wholesale Fiber checker. It's now listed as: Downstream 1000Mbps, Upstream 220Mbps.
Thought I would share a long time but finally success story from Openreach.
Back in July 2019 moved house to an estate built 2012/2013. Half of it had FTTP installed in 2017. The house/half I was in was on FTTC which gave 25/30Mb.
According to Openreach FTTP checker there was plans to do the rest of the estate late 2019/early 2020. It soon became apparent after multiple enquiry's this wasn't going to happen and the plans was stopped.
Had a Cerberus FTTPoD done in Jan 2020 quote came back at £8,640+Vat. Continued for the next 16 months pestering Bellway, Local CC, OR for the reason why half the estate was missed. Went into great detail with maps, build timings for the half which had FTTP....lots of information but just continued to get fobbed off.
Roll on beginning August 2020 when I decided to fire some emails off to high level Openreach, now finally got to deal with REAL people who know there stuff! First attempt after a week failed to which I re-escalated back and then things REALLY started to move rapidly.
An Head engineer personally got involved with local field surveying. Estate surveyed in a week (middle August) and got a call OR had aggreged to build FTTP to the 69 house's which missed out.
Over the next month there was a fleet of Openreach vans each day busy in underground chambers pulling fibre and installing CBT in the underground chambers.
On Wednesday (lucky i was at home) a couple engineers turned up out the blue who know my name and said they had come to install the CSP and ONT, all went fine and they installed the ONT into the room I asked for without issue. The build wasn't yet released from commissioning but was told this should happen in the next couple day at which point I would be able to order from an ISP.
This morning all went live, ordered the 900Mb FTTP from BT. Had a call from the engineer who has been my contact with this saying he found my order on the BT system, has remotely activated my service and it should all be working. Smart hub is on order but unless there is an issue will use my mesh Deco's to connect to the ONT.
So the story of almost 2 years back of LOTS of phone calls, emails etc etc in a little over 6 weeks a fibre build has been planned, built and commissioned.
I can not fault the high level people I have been in contact with at Openreach, goes to show persistence sometimes does pay off.
Looking forward to trying it once I'm home from work later and being able to cancel the Three 4G mobile broadband which TBH has served me better than expected the past 2 years.
Back in July 2019 moved house to an estate built 2012/2013. Half of it had FTTP installed in 2017. The house/half I was in was on FTTC which gave 25/30Mb.
According to Openreach FTTP checker there was plans to do the rest of the estate late 2019/early 2020. It soon became apparent after multiple enquiry's this wasn't going to happen and the plans was stopped.
Had a Cerberus FTTPoD done in Jan 2020 quote came back at £8,640+Vat. Continued for the next 16 months pestering Bellway, Local CC, OR for the reason why half the estate was missed. Went into great detail with maps, build timings for the half which had FTTP....lots of information but just continued to get fobbed off.
Roll on beginning August 2020 when I decided to fire some emails off to high level Openreach, now finally got to deal with REAL people who know there stuff! First attempt after a week failed to which I re-escalated back and then things REALLY started to move rapidly.
An Head engineer personally got involved with local field surveying. Estate surveyed in a week (middle August) and got a call OR had aggreged to build FTTP to the 69 house's which missed out.
Over the next month there was a fleet of Openreach vans each day busy in underground chambers pulling fibre and installing CBT in the underground chambers.
On Wednesday (lucky i was at home) a couple engineers turned up out the blue who know my name and said they had come to install the CSP and ONT, all went fine and they installed the ONT into the room I asked for without issue. The build wasn't yet released from commissioning but was told this should happen in the next couple day at which point I would be able to order from an ISP.
This morning all went live, ordered the 900Mb FTTP from BT. Had a call from the engineer who has been my contact with this saying he found my order on the BT system, has remotely activated my service and it should all be working. Smart hub is on order but unless there is an issue will use my mesh Deco's to connect to the ONT.
So the story of almost 2 years back of LOTS of phone calls, emails etc etc in a little over 6 weeks a fibre build has been planned, built and commissioned.
I can not fault the high level people I have been in contact with at Openreach, goes to show persistence sometimes does pay off.
Looking forward to trying it once I'm home from work later and being able to cancel the Three 4G mobile broadband which TBH has served me better than expected the past 2 years.
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It should be available fairly soon for you then if the availability checker is saying that. Was it previously saying that FTToD (FTTP on Demand) was available? That's generally listed as 330Mbps down.
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Result! Persistence can definitely pay off.
Yes, it was. The fiber cable was put into the ducting 3 days ago. They had so much cable it was crazy to see. Must have been 8am there until 2pm one day. 5 Openreach vans were up that day.
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What package are you planning to get? If you want to 900Mbps (or whatever they market it at) package then you can't get that from Sky, the highest they offer is their 'Ultrafast Plus' which is 500Mbps.
500 would be fine, I can't justify paying for 900, nor do I really need it (would love it though!).
Let me know how you get on with Sky if you decide to go for it
I'm leaning towards switching to BT.
£39.99 for BT Full Fibre 500
£45 for Skys equivalent Broadband Ultrafast Plus
Where are you getting that price for BT?
Go for it. If you order the BT package via Top Cashback, you can get £110 as well.
Not seeing that on the site?
https://www.bt.com/products/broadband/deals/
Try the “magic” link https://www.bt.com/campaign/full-fibre-240 . My address shows a discount on here but not on the general deals page.
I’ve been on Sky FTTP for a year now and it’s been fine, only issue was some sort of DNS outage a few months back but other than it it’s fine.