Fibre broadband.

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I’m switching broadband from Sky to Virgin and this time it’ll be full fibre connection (FTTP, Fibre To The Premises).

I did a bit of research yesterday and thought it would be a matter of threading a cable from the local ‘cabinet’ to the pavement via some sort of existing utilities duct (though it could be quite some distance I’d guess), then following the same route as the phone line onto and into the property. However today Virgin’s messages suggested digging and drilling might be required, although they haven’t done a first inspection yet. I expected a bit of drilling, and digging a channel in the lawn border would be ok too, but if they have to break concrete paving, for example, the landlord might not be happy. I’ve asked for permission and offered some justification but that was when I thought it was relatively simple.

Have you had FTTP installed, and how much disruption was there?

[Nobby the Bastard]

Had it fitted along my BT copper conduit about a month ago.

They couldn't get their snake thing through the conduit , most likely reason was, they reckoned, tamping down where the path was in the garden had compressed the conduit (roughly the right distance from where the snake went into where it got stuck.)

In the end they just pulled the fibre through using the copper after checking the copper could move well enough to do so. No copper tothe house at all now.

All in all, took about 3 hours, with loss of internet less than an hour.

I'm loving the 150MBPS goodness, downloaded the latest Mandalorian episode in about 20 seconds last night.
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[Polarbear]

I had fibre fitted into the house. They lifted the blockwork on my drive and then relaid it when they were finished laying the cable. They did an excellent job and you can't tell where they laid the cable.

This was done by Cityfibre who own the fibre network rather than the new ISP I have chosen, Fibrehop.

Of course that is no guarantee yours will do as well.
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[DaddyStu]

[Easy-X]

[Nobby the Bastard]

That was no increase in cost from the 30 ish copper one. Basically a 5* speed upgrade fror nothing.
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[Easy-X]

Hmm, I didn't do quite as well. Started with 200Mbps and got a free upgrade to 350Mbps with some Virgin Media / O2 crossover deal I suppose we should be grateful broadband is such a cutthroat market in this country.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

I could have 350 MBPS here bit don't see the point of paying for a speed that I have no realistic reason to use.
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[Easy-X]

Fair enough. Thankfully mines a business expense, benefits from working at home.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

Well, I work from home but I don't see how I would ever need that speed and work wouldn't pay for it, and would say come into the office and use the internet there.
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[CaNsA]

Oi oi, bit of an FYI

I'm ditching VM because their secret unplanned planned mid-week maintenance and pointless price increases are why I am jumping ship.

They were the fastest in my area and I was happy to pay, but it has got ridiculous with price increases to which I see no benefit.

Within the next month, 350mb for 60 quid.
Fuck that shit.

YouFibre / netomnia are in my area offering much better speeds for much lower price.

o7

[to v or not to v]

im quite happy with 36 mbps. never had any problems with streaming, gaming etc, or felt that i need more speed.
£22 month with Now broadband.
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[MCN]

I have talk talk fibre.
The fibre is only to the street cabinet. The signal run along existing copper to the house.
I didn't know they put fibre to the house.

My speeds are brill.
70 down 20 up.
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Disclaimer: The comments above may be predicted text and not necessarily the opinion of MCN.

[Nobby the Bastard]

I literally only got it because it was free.
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[Polarbear]

Fibrehop are £36 a month for 900Mbps. That's all they do, the max speed, no other choices. That was a £30 drop from what BT had pushed my chrarges up to on a 56(max)Mbps phoneline with the dubious Norton thrown in. Yes, I know I should have ditched them donkeys years ago. Lethargy rules.

Fibrehop is just a no frills fibre ISP.
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[MCN]

[Polarbear]

[TbirdX]

Virgin here...currently at 600Mbs or so (571 down 40 up actual at time of writing)

At last renewal got a speed upgrade and a lower price. Result.
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[doggone]

[Freddyfruitba...]

All you folks getting excited about the massively high speeds available... do you all genuinely make use of these?

I'm on VirginMedia fibre here, on their 132 Mbps service, which is one up from their slowest service (54 Mbps) and a lot slower than their top one (1130 Mbps). On that we have three users, two of whom work from home full time on VPNs; plus we use streaming TV services most evenings, and it all works just fine. My understanding is that there is no benefit to our household from upgrading our connection here unless anybody is consistently needing to up- or download really large files, which we rarely do. In fact, a few years ago, when all the speeds were much slower than they are now, I actually downgraded our connection for this reason, and noticed no difference whatsoever...
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[Easy-X]

No one sells on upload speed so you take what you can get. I'm uploading software updates all through the day so every little helps.
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[drkbishop]

Got fttp from Toob installed a couple of weeks ago, to replace virgin.

Getting 900 up and down for 25 quid a month

[CaNsA]

[blurredman]

[Nobby the Bastard]

On checking I could actually have 900MBps here if I really wanted...
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