Vodafone Fiber 900meg???

Shawreyboy · 22 May 2019 at 17:23

platypus said:
Installation of this has started in Cambridge and I'm sorely tempted.

Vodafone are notorious for dire customer service mind, so there is that worry.

Support is being handled in the UK by Entanet/CityFibre

also, the network is built in a much more resilient manner.

We have a close relationship with Entanet and their Tech Support Manager came in to demo how they would be handling and diagnosing the faults on it where they can pinpoint the fault to literally a few feet or specific equipment. Very VERY good stuff (in theory).

Shawrey

LizardKing · 23 May 2019 at 22:06

Work men have been and gone from street leaving a nice junction box sunk into the path outside the property, just waiting for them to allow sign ups

The guys doing it are grafters that's for sure but there's lots left to be said about the state they have left the paths in (not that they were great to begin with)

platypus · 24 May 2019 at 10:29

Shawreyboy said:
Support is being handled in the UK by Entanet/CityFibre also, the network is built in a much more resilient manner.

We have a close relationship with Entanet and their Tech Support Manager came in to demo how they would be handling and diagnosing the faults on it where they can pinpoint the fault to literally a few feet or specific equipment. Very VERY good stuff (in theory).

Shawrey

Do you work for CityFibre/Vodafone?

Shawreyboy · 24 May 2019 at 12:55

platypus said:
Do you work for CityFibre/Vodafone?

Nope - I work for a CityFibre/EntaNet reseller

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Shawrey

platypus · 24 May 2019 at 14:35

Shawreyboy said:
Nope - I work for a CityFibre/EntaNet reseller .

Shawrey

Fair enough. Don't suppose you have a roll out schedule do you? We got a CityFiber flyer through the door but can't find anything as to when its actually being installed.

Shawreyboy · 24 May 2019 at 14:40

platypus said:
Fair enough. Don't suppose you have a roll out schedule do you? We got a CityFiber flyer through the door but can't find anything as to when its actually being installed.

I don't have that level of info - sorry chap.

What I can say is that there's no official word from Enta/CityFibre yet on wholesaler's to resell it yet other than 'soon'.

Shawrey

platypus · 24 May 2019 at 16:08

No problemo, cheers anyway.

DazQ87 · 25 Jun 2019 at 17:47

Mine is being installed on 1st July, opted for the 500mbps package. I'll post my thoughts on here when it's up and running.

Trifid · 25 Jun 2019 at 18:46

Exciting. Can you let us know about the install process? Where and how they run the fibre to the property. I can see this being the biggest problem for me, as I want it in my electrical cupboard which is in the centre of the house. I already have a existing internal route which I successfully negotiated both BT and virgin to install their cables to.

LizardKing · 26 Jun 2019 at 00:23

DazQ87 said:
Mine is being installed on 1st July, opted for the 500mbps package. I'll post my thoughts on here when it's up and running.

Lucky so and so

, when did they rip up your street? its been over a month for me and there still yet to allow sign ups with my postcode, in fact they wont even estimate normal BB....

platypus · 26 Jun 2019 at 09:27

Do Vodafone offer any sort of incentives to switch from a competitor?

labcoattech · 26 Jun 2019 at 09:38

Does anyone have a list of what cities Vodafone Fibre is being rolled out to and when?

Trifid · 26 Jun 2019 at 21:16

labcoattech said:
Does anyone have a list of what cities Vodafone Fibre is being rolled out to and when?

Look at the City Fibre roll out schedule.

platypus said:
Do Vodafone offer any sort of incentives to switch from a competitor?

Is FTTH for a reasonable price not incentive enough?

GGizmo · 28 Jun 2019 at 11:29

I wish one of the alt-nets would come by my day. They are working in Manchester and Huddersfield, I'm in the middle.

I think nearly all the alt-nets are cheaper than the BT Openreach offerings, and generally offer higher speeds in both downloads and uploads.

platypus · 29 Jun 2019 at 19:16

Trifid said:
Is FTTH for a reasonable price not incentive enough?

Yes you're right, but still have a lengthy BT contract to exit

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DazQ87 · 1 Jul 2019 at 17:15

So, got connected up today, the installation took about 1 hour.
The guys who turned up were great, they managed to do the install in the location I specified which involved a bit of fiber cable routing.
Currently sitting on a solid 500/500, I'll report back when I've had a change to play about with more of the router settings.

Trifid · 2 Jul 2019 at 07:19

How did they get from the street into your house? Did you take any pictures of the install?

labcoattech · 2 Jul 2019 at 09:33

DazQ87 said:
So, got connected up today, the installation took about 1 hour.
The guys who turned up were great, they managed to do the install in the location I specified which involved a bit of fiber cable routing.
Currently sitting on a solid 500/500, I'll report back when I've had a change to play about with more of the router settings.

Sweet, I wish they would hurry up and do more cities.

Can you post any photos of the install?

DazQ87 · 2 Jul 2019 at 17:02

labcoattech said:
Sweet, I wish they would hurry up and do more cities.

Can you post any photos of the install?

Sure I should get chance to upload some pictures before the end of the week.

I must say they did a tidy job inside and out, although my front garden is pretty easy, as it's gravel on top of a membrane, so they just lifted the sheet to one side and dug a shallow trench which is easy enough to re-cover afterwards.
It would probably be a much more involved job if you had something like block paving in between your house and the street fiber point.

LiE · 11 Jul 2019 at 14:11

labcoattech said:
Sweet, I wish they would hurry up and do more cities.

Can you post any photos of the install?

I've had mine since January, installation was quite easy because I have a gravel drive. 900/900, downloads 50GB games in under 10 minutes. Running cat 7 cable from route to my Mac to unlock the max speed. On Wifi most devices get around 300-400Mbps

This is a photo I took while they were laying the cable. It will be interesting when I get the drive block paved, will need to be careful.