Finally, we're getting FTTP, woo-hoo! (it was installed in June 2024)

InQ said:
I've had FTTC (upper 50's Mb/low 60's Mb on speedtest) for about 10 years now and have just ordered FTTP 500Mb as it's just been installed on my road.
They will be installing it in another week at my house but just wondering a few things...

I assume they remove the redundant copper cable drop line? (mine is from a telegraph pole on the road at the front of the house).

I should actually get 500Mb and not say 400/450Mb? (at least with a wired ethernet connection, although I have an Asus RT-AC68U that is reporting 500-650Mb using my iphone 15 pro with Wi-Fi sweetspots app to test wifi speeds so it shouldn't be a limiting factor depending on location in the house).
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Ive had sky 500 fttp for about 3 months now, i get 524mb/s through ethernet, 73 upload and pings of about 7 ms to google and bbc.

They took the old copper cable out from the pole across the road and put in a new fibre cable from the pole across the road, the fibre box is on the telegraph pole.

Im using an Asus AC88-U as the router,not the sky one, its pretty decent.
 
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Feek said:
We have people working from home using 4G or 5G connections and they are, without exception, useless.

One of them has over 200 Mbps download and 4 Mbps upload.
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Cellular connections are always uplink limited due to the transmission constraints placed on your phone/tablet/cellular modem by the laws of physics and man.
 
Got FTTP out here in the middle of rural nowhere the other week after 5 years of being told it was coming. Supposedly a 2gbps/1gbps connection, but I’m not complaining.

800 mbps/600 mbps cabled at my PC and 500/300 downstairs on iThings over the WiFi.

Same price of €42 a month as my old 15/3 WIMAX connection and landline calls to European landlines are included on the VoIP package, saving me €25 a month on having a fixed line at the house.
 
CooK1E said:
I'm happy for you, but it does make me a little sad. We're in the middle of a main town close to a cabinet and it's been years
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You have my sympathies.

French government issues a directive to get reliable internet connections to the rural areas which have both very poor cellular coverage and/or were too far from the nearest exchange for DSL as many of the state services as well as banking are mostly accessed online.

It’s taken so long to rollout as one of the companies that Orange France subbed out the work to underbid on the work and got very sulky when they found they were laying fibre at a loss and rollout slowly to a crawl as it went to court.

My contract is actually with Bouygues who ran the fibre from the pole at the top of my driveway to my house and installed the junction box where I wanted it.
 
Who is the supplier of choice at the moment? I've been with BT for soooooo long, I'm totally out of touch.

I'd be looking to use the equipment supplied rather than supplying my own.

TalkTalk? Plusnet?
 
Dyson said:
Who is the supplier of choice at the moment? I've been with BT for soooooo long, I'm totally out of touch.

I'd be looking to use the equipment supplied rather than supplying my own.

TalkTalk? Plusnet?
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Plusnet would be top of my list
Owned by BT but way cheaper than BT
New customers you would get best offers
Was £30 for 500Mbs last I looked
But theres always a new offer
And sites like topcashback usually it gets even better
Once they apply whatever offer they currently have

Talk talk certainly don't have a great history
When it comes to good customer service/satisfaction
Though

Never used supplied routers
Got 3 Plusnet ones new in boxes somewhere lol
Got a feeling their current router may be a rebadged BT home hub
You should also be able to reuse your current BT router
Unless it's too old for speed you want etc

Edit
If you need voip
Plusnet will not be doing it
If don't need home phone no worries
 
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Mcnumpty2323 said:
Plusnet would be top of my list
Owned by BT but way cheaper than BT
New customers you would get best offers
Was £30 for 500Mbs last I looked
But theres always a new offer
And sites like topcashback usually it gets even better
Once they apply whatever offer they currently have

Talk talk certainly don't have a great history
When it comes to good customer service/satisfaction
Though

Never used supplied routers
Got 3 Plusnet ones new in boxes somewhere lol
Got a feeling their current router may be a rebadged BT home hub
You should also be able to reuse your current BT router
Unless it's too old for speed you want etc

Edit
If you need voip
Plusnet will not be doing it
If don't need home phone no worries
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Thanks for that - finally ditching the land line so no worries there
 
rodders said:
Toob going in today! Seems ages since they put the cables in the road, to being able to order it.
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Being able to order was pretty quick, they started digging the roads about a month ago so I checked to see if I could order, no dice, said available before end 2025.
Couple of weeks later my package was expiring so I was checking pricing and I had 500MB / 900MB and 1.7GB available.

Placed order, someone from Openreach was around in a few days to take a look, I was holiday last week and I just came back to a pig tale of fibre outside the house, so cable is run to the property.

Sadly have to wait another month for the engineer to install through the wall but will be 8 weeks from breaking ground to active.
 
decto said:
Being able to order was pretty quick, they started digging the roads about a month ago so I checked to see if I could order, no dice, said available before end 2025.
Couple of weeks later my package was expiring so I was checking pricing and I had 500MB / 900MB and 1.7GB available.

Placed order, someone from Openreach was around in a few days to take a look, I was holiday last week and I just came back to a pig tale of fibre outside the house, so cable is run to the property.

Sadly have to wait another month for the engineer to install through the wall but will be 8 weeks from breaking ground to active.
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It's going in now, exciting! Lol
 
Speed test.net on PC and app on phone.

The router has a speed test built in, that was 1088 up and 988 down, to itself.

It's so much better than our 62mbps (edit - obviously lol)

MSFS update, 31gb, done before I was out the shower!
 
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Plugged in my Asus Dsl ax82u tonight, doesn't seem to hit the 1gpbs speeds, not really sure what settings need to be made, it just worked?
Prefer some of the parental controls that it does, over the Toob one.
On paper its a much better router, so perhaps I've done something wrong?

Edit - Hmmm, one place says the WAN port is faster than 1gbps, but other places says it's 1gbps. I suspect that is the problem.
 
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Biggest advantage of FTTP was reliability. First two years were with BT and the 500 package. This year I moved to PN (on the equivalent 500 deal) who I was with when I had FTTC. Saved a couple of pounds per month but biggest saving was to ditch the landline.
 
rodders said:
Plugged in my Asus Dsl ax82u tonight, doesn't seem to hit the 1gpbs speeds, not really sure what settings need to be made, it just worked?
Prefer some of the parental controls that it does, over the Toob one.
On paper its a much better router, so perhaps I've done something wrong?

Edit - Hmmm, one place says the WAN port is faster than 1gbps, but other places says it's 1gbps. I suspect that is the problem.
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What speeds are you getting, and how are you measuring them? How do those speeds compare to the Toob router?

The WAN port is 1Gbps as is (most likely) the customer port on your ONT.
 
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