Fibre

[Irn-Bru]

Businesses quite often use dedicated fibre lines via blown fibre, or they might run a solid 12 or 24 fibre cable which I think it what VM do regardless, but that's mainly for places like datacentres, police stations etc. That's my line of work anyway, but I know feck all about FTTC, we don't even blow fibre to these cabs or really ever go in them, seems to be another team. I did get trained on FTTP initially but I only work on Ethernet provisions now which is quite a bit different. I suspect a random engineer working in a cab won't know much, I get asked alsorts, usually accused of knocking off peoples phone lines or slowing down their Internet, despite working in an underground node at the time
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[bEN_]

I had a similar problem a few months ago, the street right next to me had fibre enabled months before i did, as my internet was painfully slow i was checking the bt site on a weekly basis, but eventually i got it.

it could be a similar situation for you
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[dydey90]

I checked the cabinets that provide for the streets around mine and they were enabled November and December 2010.
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[Ste]

Move house?

[anthony_r6]

[dydey90]

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[Ste]

(posted using my super fast BT Infinity option 2)

[CBFcarl]

https://www.homeandwork.openreach.co.uk/OurNetwork/Superfast.aspx

Have a click on that - if you put your details on it will tell you *exactly* which exchange you connect to, and if / when fibre services are available.

When we moved house, used this and it told me that there was fibre in the area, but the exchange was full for fibre. Kept checking on a weekly basis and then I got a heads up when Openreach had opened up more availability.
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[mudcow007]

I have just had fibre fitted in our server room, its fibre into the building.

currently only at 30mb up & down, but on a 100mb carrier no contention etc massive downside is...its pricey

[dydey90]

I wonder what the rates would be like if I asked for a business standard connection...
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[R1stu]

[mudcow007]

[dydey90]

I've had a reply off openreach, basically saying "No. Not now, not ever."

Redirection of effort now.
-Sent more enquiries asking if there's any chance they'll upgrade the line to ADSL2 instead. If that could bump up the speed to something actually usable I'd be happy. Since there's only me who needs lots of internets I'd be alright with 8mbit.

-4G, although I'd have to watch my usage. EE do this, 32GB download capacity for £28 per month. I think if I kept the torrents fully legit and paid for tv services to the landline I could manage with that.

Can anybody recommend a data monitor that I could use for a while to check my usage?
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[Ste]

I wouldn't pay much attention to whatever Openreach told you. It's a case of when you'll get fibre rather than if you get fibre.

You can monitor data usage in Windows by going to the 'Network and Sharing Centre' then clicking the name of the network that you're using.

32gb per month from EE? Windows tells me that I've used 10gb a day for the last couple of weeks.

[panrider_uk]

[dydey90]

[Ste]

Errr yeah, pretty sure that it gets restarted when the computer is turned off and back on again. I just put my laptop into standby rather than shutting it down, I can get more detailed bandwidth stats from the router if I want to.

32gb a month would be quite possible but you'd have to be careful to avoid anything bandwidth heavy.

With just a bit of music streaming, occasional tv or film streaming, watching junk on youtube, watching the motogp, looking at a few BCF threads with many hi-res photos in them, etc etc and your 32gb will be gone before you know it.

[mudcow007]

[dydey90]

Holy thread revival!

Update on fibre: got the ball rolling, 9-12 months to install and 15-20k in cost. Been told that each house can apply for a £350 voucher from a help scheme, so it's going to be a lot of work to get it done.

In the mean time, this:
https://shop.ee.co.uk/dongles/pay-monthly-mobile-broadband/4g-home-broadband/details?WT.mc_id=ON_MEC_A_AffWin_Broadband+Genie&WT.tsrc=Affiliate#choosePlanAnchor

Worth a look? Can't find anything cheaper at the moment at 50GB seems like a reasonable allowance. Cost doesn't seem too excessive as I'd be cancelling current broadband and not having to pay line rental.
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[dydey90]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42423047

How do I make my demands? 4G router data limit is crippling.
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[dydey90]

The easiest thing they could do for my street is connect us to the fibre enabled cabinet on the next street, about 120 yards from the current, fibreless cabinet.

I'd imagine that's the easiest thing all round, as I think 17mbit is what you can get from an ADSL2 line, which degrades over distance, so most people with a speed under 10mbit will already be in that bracket.
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[Jayy]

I live within 500ft of the exchange and when I was on ADSL 2+ I could get 22mb out of 24mb maximum.

Took fucking years for it to become available but they finally did it and been on fast fibre for just over 2 years now.

Hopefully you will get it but it could be years, who the fuck knows. Every few weeks I used to keep submitting that "register your interest for fibre in your area" as when a certain number of people say they want it, they will come sooner.

Maybe you could start a petition with your local town to get everyone to register their interest?

[Ste]

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