Interesting. What's your contracted speed? Mine is 300/30 officially and that appears to be what Cerberus are delivering.
From the BT web site
Interested to know how you're getting almost 98 Mbps upload in that case, unless they are being generous and not enforcing the limit strictly. I can see the upload here bounce down from mid-50s down to 30 mbps where it stays pegged. So Cerberus are enforcing the 30 Mbps upload speed pretty sharpish,
Engineer was here at 08:30 this morning. Pretty quickly works out that last pole serving house is too old to climb. Yep knew that already. Thought you guys did too....hey ho.
So he’s on the phone for half an hour to get a hoist crew here....the two local crews aren’t working today. So now waiting for a crew to come from Clacton after they’d finished their high voltage job (who knew they moonlighted
So anyway the engineer has gone to do another job and he promised he’d be back later today.
Look I’ve even been left a nice Huawei box as a “promissory note”
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That’s (I think) the new style ONT - optical network terminator, basically fibre to Ethernet end point.
Sounds good. Keep at them and get your neighbours to join the chorus. They seem to move a bit faster if there is pressure.
Funny thing when the tech turns up yesterday - he says you don’t work for BT do you? I say no (whispering thank goodness under my breath).
He says I’ve never before on a connection job had quite so many chaser/update calls from the office on the way to a job to make sure everything is on track and the customer is “happy”....heck maybe my reputation proceeds me - naaaaaa it’s probably a standard sweetener they chuck at all their customers now
I think they literally mean pot - it’s a term the electrical guys use as in “pot end” - its like a large fat blob that takes the cable in both ends, they take a split off and fill it up with water resistant jelly sh!t (soft setting epoxy) with the splice chamber etc tucked up inside.
Man I had the dude at Cerberus quoting Optical Character Recognition as they tried to explain to me what an OCR was in an exchange.
Until today I'd gone along with "pot" just as your say......wrote it in my email and the reply came back POT...hence I assumed perhaps it really did stand for something.
I can laugh about it now. A tree branch will probably snap and take the line down and take the wind out of my sails. No hamsters
Am expecting the “real” cost of fibre (the proper job, not to the cabinet shite) to drop similar to what 4G has.
If B4RN could change their name to B4RS and install in Suffolk I'd bite their hand off! You're very lucky.
