I'm having a fairly slick experience so far with EE.
I ordered on 12th March, Open Reach Engineer visit is booked for Monday (30th) and they've just dispatched the router..
Ironically if there is going to be a problem it'll probably be my end since our BT socket was removed many years ago and there is now an extension and doorway where it used to be, but it was definitely not ducted (our status is Stage 1 UG Duct Congested), the cable was discovered by the electricity contractor who un looped me the other week and they assumed it was some old BT cable as that is all there was anywhere near the old socket location.
I think my hiccup would be that the easiest route is to dig a new duct in to a soil border (technically 10cm of it is mine, the rest is my neighbours) up the left side of our boundary and then run it up the wall into my cinema room which has a bulkhead at the back with a cat 6a cable which goes to the rest of the house via a managed 2.5gbps switch.. However, if they could somehow cross the single driveway to get to the soil/gravel area they can run a cable right across to the other side of the house (VM also enter here) where I can go directly in to the UCG-F which has a 10G SFP+ fiber going to the main switch in the loft.
I let EE know this immediately, they think that OR may be oversubscribed in our area and have had some installs cancelled just due to minor digging/groundworks required which would be a shame but I can't blame EE for Openreaches policies/status.
I ordered on 12th March, Open Reach Engineer visit is booked for Monday (30th) and they've just dispatched the router..
Ironically if there is going to be a problem it'll probably be my end since our BT socket was removed many years ago and there is now an extension and doorway where it used to be, but it was definitely not ducted (our status is Stage 1 UG Duct Congested), the cable was discovered by the electricity contractor who un looped me the other week and they assumed it was some old BT cable as that is all there was anywhere near the old socket location.
I think my hiccup would be that the easiest route is to dig a new duct in to a soil border (technically 10cm of it is mine, the rest is my neighbours) up the left side of our boundary and then run it up the wall into my cinema room which has a bulkhead at the back with a cat 6a cable which goes to the rest of the house via a managed 2.5gbps switch.. However, if they could somehow cross the single driveway to get to the soil/gravel area they can run a cable right across to the other side of the house (VM also enter here) where I can go directly in to the UCG-F which has a 10G SFP+ fiber going to the main switch in the loft.
I let EE know this immediately, they think that OR may be oversubscribed in our area and have had some installs cancelled just due to minor digging/groundworks required which would be a shame but I can't blame EE for Openreaches policies/status.
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