Pheasant Surprise
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- Location
- Woodbridge, Suffolk
Ever the search for better broadband in the land of third world broadband known as rural England continues....
So who's got it or getting some then?
Looks like our local FTTC cabinet that OpenSheep installed last year might becoming live real soon now. Wow thought it might never happen. According to the OpenSheep website this cabinet will support "Superfast" copper based broadband but apparently also actual real bits of glass aka Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) on demand.
We are almost 0.6 mile / 1 km from said cabinet which I think, given the quality of the last 1/2 mile of copper based connection, strung along some half rotten poles, most of OpenSheep refuse to replace or even climb anymore, I'm hardly excited about FTTC, but fibre to me ......oooooooh now that would be nice. They may even have to replace some poles so they can string up the glass!
So being the curious fecker, I have blasted off a request for quote for an FTTP On Demand connection to pre-sales at Cerberus Networks. Their website says according to my address I'm eligible to order it, but cant tell me owmuchizit. Apparently it takes them 2 weeks to generate a quote, I suppose they too have to wait on OpenSheep....
This will be interesting....
So who's got it or getting some then?
Looks like our local FTTC cabinet that OpenSheep installed last year might becoming live real soon now. Wow thought it might never happen. According to the OpenSheep website this cabinet will support "Superfast" copper based broadband but apparently also actual real bits of glass aka Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) on demand.
We are almost 0.6 mile / 1 km from said cabinet which I think, given the quality of the last 1/2 mile of copper based connection, strung along some half rotten poles, most of OpenSheep refuse to replace or even climb anymore, I'm hardly excited about FTTC, but fibre to me ......oooooooh now that would be nice. They may even have to replace some poles so they can string up the glass!
So being the curious fecker, I have blasted off a request for quote for an FTTP On Demand connection to pre-sales at Cerberus Networks. Their website says according to my address I'm eligible to order it, but cant tell me owmuchizit. Apparently it takes them 2 weeks to generate a quote, I suppose they too have to wait on OpenSheep....
This will be interesting....