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PostPosted: 19:17 - 09 Mar 2023    Post subject: Fibre broadband. Reply with quote

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?
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PostPosted: 19:27 - 09 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: 19:46 - 09 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: 23:00 - 09 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nobby the Bastard wrote:


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


Sad took me about 5 minutes on my 30ish meg. Worth it though to see Katee as Bo-Katan again Smile Sci-fi Royalty!
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PostPosted: 00:15 - 10 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nobby the Bastard wrote:
I'm loving the 150MBPS goodness


You poor thing! How do you survive with such a Third-World transfer rate? Virgin offer gigabits speeds... personally I make do with a modest 350Mbps Wink

Seriously though, from a work perspective, having a decent upload speed makes the biggest difference. Getting about 40Mbps at the moment.
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PostPosted: 08:41 - 10 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

That was no increase in cost from the 30 ish copper one. Basically a 5* speed upgrade fror nothing.
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PostPosted: 09:19 - 10 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 Smile I suppose we should be grateful broadband is such a cutthroat market in this country.
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PostPosted: 09:37 - 10 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: 12:57 - 10 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fair enough. Thankfully mines a business expense, benefits from working at home.
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PostPosted: 13:46 - 10 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: 14:42 - 10 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.

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PostPosted: 22:11 - 10 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: 22:39 - 10 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: 22:45 - 10 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

I literally only got it because it was free.
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PostPosted: 00:31 - 11 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: 12:51 - 11 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Polarbear wrote:
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.


You must need the 999mbps for streaming that Disabled-Dwarf German pornhub. Rolling Eyes Cool
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PostPosted: 15:06 - 11 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

MCN wrote:
Polarbear wrote:
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.


You must need the 999mbps for streaming that Disabled-Dwarf German pornhub. Rolling Eyes Cool


Exactly - especially need the speeds when fast forwarding to the good bits. Cool
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PostPosted: 17:34 - 11 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: 17:52 - 11 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Polarbear wrote:
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.

Might be able to get full fibre here soon, they do look good and there's a £26 option for 150mb
It's the upload speed annoys me now, we actually have pretty good 70mb down on FTTC and when it first came on I got 20 up - but now it is throttled back to 10mb up. That happened when talk talk got involved by buying out SSE.
I do upload stuff all the time so it matters but they won't answer any queries about why it is being throttled.
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PostPosted: 18:18 - 11 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: 20:32 - 11 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: 20:39 - 11 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

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

Getting 900 up and down for 25 quid a month
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PostPosted: 02:45 - 12 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

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


With working from home being a thing, upload speed is a decent selling point and VM just haven't seen that.
Couple that with thinking mid-week, unannounced planned maintenance is an ok thing to do then your customers are going to have a shitty time.

Currently on my VM line I have to limit the upload speed of my missus' and mine's work computers to 5mb a piece because teams is a proper hog when it comes to video meetings and because we both access remote servers which chews up the both the UL and DL BW too, me more so as I have several I'm accessing at a time.

Anything over that and one of us will suffer with lag and all that shit, which is a proper ballache when I'm already suffering due to the absolutely diabolical shambles of a bunch of virtual servers we use.

Seriously, the amount of security and server bouncing the company I work for is required to do just to meet the requirements of what we do is crazy.
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PostPosted: 10:31 - 15 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nobby the Bastard wrote:
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.


I said that when 2mbps came out
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PostPosted: 10:41 - 15 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

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