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

mogwai · 2025-01-08T20:13:35+0000

I had to email the ceo in the end and he replied at 5:18 am

mrochester · 2025-01-08T20:14:27+0000

Open reach have been pulling the fibre cables down the existing trenches on my street today. They have also hooked a bundle of fibre cables on the pole that serves my house.

I wonder how long it’ll be before I can order…

Jon20 · 2025-01-08T23:26:33+0000

Jon20 said:
The fibre checker map has been updated. It’s showing the area that I’m in is going to have the build started in the next 12 months. Not sure if the houses here are direct in ground or not. Doesn’t appear to be any ducting to the houses. There is a chamber right outside the house in the footpath that Openreach occasionally open up. Be interesting to see whether Virgin with their fibre overlay or Openreach get here first.

Just to add to this. There's a couple of guys at the moment checking out the chambers, taking the lids off etc, along the road. Guess it's potentially the very early stages of the build starting.

Edit: Looks like they are pulling through some plastic tubing through the ducts. Was hooked on to some blue rope that was being pulled through by a machine.

mrochester · 2025-01-09T05:29:35+0000

Jon20 said:
Just to add to this. There's a couple of guys at the moment checking out the chambers, taking the lids off etc, along the road. Guess it's potentially the very early stages of the build starting.

Edit: Looks like they are pulling through some plastic tubing through the ducts. Was hooked on to some blue rope that was being pulled through by a machine.

That’s exactly what they were doing here (blue rope to pull the fibre cables through) but they were doing it by hand here.

ChrisD. · 2025-01-09T09:22:10+0000

mogwai said:
My top budge is probably up to about £300. In terms of requirements I would like it to be able to provide decent wifi so that I retire my Ubiquti Amplifi HD ROuter and mesh system. I used to just have this running with an openreach fibre modem. But when that had a few issues I started using the Plusnet router with the Amplifi HD in bridge mode, I will probably getting the 500mb servcie.

Get one of the new UniFi Cloud Gateways and a UniFi AP. It's going to get much more development compared to Aplifi and UniFi Network Application 9 is extremely good.