FTTP on Demand

[Spear]

I love the way Open Reach have been saying for ages that fibre is coming soon to our cabinet...........

...... hmmm....
strange as we’re connected straight to the exchange even though it’s 5 miles by phone cable away.

Don’t think there’s ever a chance of fibre here and cellular isn’t good enough indoors to go down that route.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

I love the way Open Reach have been saying for ages that fibre is coming soon to our cabinet...........

...... hmmm....
strange as we’re connected straight to the exchange even though it’s 5 miles by phone cable away.

Don’t think there’s ever a chance of fibre here and cellular isn’t good enough indoors to go down that route.

Yeh exchange only lines (EOL) are real troublesome things. Not much can be done with them, even in cities.

Have you looked up DSL Checker to see what it says about your service?

Do you have any rural WiFi providers where you are?

 

[sjt01]

Yeh exchange only lines (EOL) are real troublesome things. Not much can be done with them, even in cities.

Have you looked up DSL Checker to see what it says about your service?

Do you have any rural WiFi providers where you are?

Did you hear the Farming Programme on Radio 4 this morning 5.45 about setting up a local 4G network in rural areas, some funding available

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

Did you hear the Farming Programme on Radio 4 this morning 5.45 about setting up a local 4G network in rural areas, some funding available

The irony is that that there are third world countries with better mobile telephone and internet services. They had no wired infrastructure at all, so just started from scratch. The technology isn’t the problem here, it’s the money/mindset.

 

[upnortheast]

Driving round rural Northumberland there is a massive amount of fibre cable being hung from poles.

Someone - HM Gov ? been putting their hand in their pocket

 

[Spear]

Yeh exchange only lines (EOL) are real troublesome things. Not much can be done with them, even in cities.

Have you looked up DSL Checker to see what it says about your service?

Do you have any rural WiFi providers where you are?

Lol just used dsl checker and that states we’re on a cabinet and 330/30 fibre is available to us.


Then goes on to say fibre not available.

It’s interesting to see it info says we’re on a cabinet, even had tech support in India/Pakistan tells us that. Yet we’ve always been and still are eol as all engineers that come out tell us ( and that’s usually at least once a year).

There’s Wi-fi broadband repeater just up the road and my neighbour just down the road has it but no line of sight for us. Also speed not that impressive. He only get 7 down and 8 up.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

Lol just used dsl checker and that states we’re on a cabinet and 330/30 fibre is available to us.


Then goes on to say fibre not available.

It’s interesting to see it info says we’re on a cabinet, even had tech support in India/Pakistan tells us that. Yet we’ve always been and still are eol as all engineers that come out tell us ( and that’s usually at least once a year).

There’s Wi-fi broadband repeater just up the road and my neighbour just down the road has it but no line of sight for us. Also speed not that impressive. He only get 7 down and 8 up.

Got any place you can get decent 4G from (hill top, higher ground etc) ?

You could then bounce a signal back to your gaff using your own 5 Ghz or 60 Ghz private wire dish pair.

 

[upnortheast]

With the help of a big son to pull cable through sewer & small grandson to crawl through the loft, service restored. In fact much better, previously 100Mbs max, Now a tad faster than that. Cable must have been going downhill for a while

 

[Steevo]

7 day update of stats

 

[Spear]

7 day update of stats

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What witchery is this. Ping below 80?
Speeds above 3Mb both ways!!!

I say photoshop [emoji23]

 

[Cowabunga]

Driving round rural Northumberland there is a massive amount of fibre cable being hung from poles.

Someone - HM Gov ? been putting their hand in their pocket

Here in my cabinet area, contractors have installed fibre all over the place for fibre to the premises. Like yours, the cables are wound up and run up existing poles and are tied there. None being networked to houses or businesses at all and no date for it to be. They have been hanging there for the best part of two years now.

A friend in another area has had a dedicated fibre line installed for him from some distance away but he is apparently [going to be] paying £1200/month for the service, which again has not been connected up properly in his building as of yet.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

A friend in another area has had a dedicated fibre line installed for him from some distance away but he is apparently [going to be] paying £1200/month for the service, which again has not been connected up properly in his building as of yet.

That definitely sounds more like leased line money than FTTP.

Here are some 1000/1000 Mbps leased line costs to my place, from Linebroker. Good for a giggle...

 

[Steevo]

All been going well here since install, albeit speeds still somewhat lower than predicted. Averaging approx 200mbps up and down currently which is masses in any event.

Unfortunately experiencing first outage today - unplanned. Has made me glad to still have a backup copper connection in place which will always stay for such eventualities.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

All been going well here since install, albeit speeds still somewhat lower than predicted. Averaging approx 200mbps up and down currently which is masses in any event.

Unfortunately experiencing first outage today - unplanned. Has made me glad to still have a backup copper connection in place which will always stay for such eventualities.

I’m thinking of penny pinching my 4G backup to go pay as you go after the last monthly contract anniversary in January.

It’s good to have it for sure, just humming away, and catch things if the fibre drops out, but it’s not using enough data to justify a pay monthly amount I don’t think.

 

[Steevo]

Can't fault that for service - engineers working all through the night and fault fixed by 5:30am!

Wouldn't get that service from Openreach!

 

[Steevo]

I’m thinking of penny pinching my 4G backup to go pay as you go after the last monthly contract anniversary in January.

It’s good to have it for sure, just humming away, and catch things if the fibre drops out, but it’s not using enough data to justify a pay monthly amount I don’t think.

Sounds like a wise plan to me.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

Can't fault that for service - engineers working all through the night and fault fixed by 5:30am!

Wouldn't get that service from Openreach!

Actually they’re not to bad on a business service, and that’s via a separate FTTP service provider.

When our ONT was nuked after lightning strike/surge I reported the fault at about 4:30pm and had a new ONT installed by 10:30am the next morning. Pretty good really.

I’m not sure how long “line” faults will take to repair. I guess will find out in the fullness of time....

 

[Steevo]

Business service is a different ballgame though....not to mention business pricing structure!

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

Business service is a different ballgame though....not to mention business pricing structure!

Certainly is. At least they’re delivering to the (paid for) service levels.