Fibre optic broadband

[Arm]

Guys

Any recommendations for fibre optic broadband please ?

Unlimited download, sensible price, reliable, easy swap over. Super fast not required.

Currently on Talk Talk as an ex Pipex customer and fibre is showing as available in my area.

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman)]

I'm using BT and so far it's been pretty painless. Fingers, toes and everything crossed, but twelve months now and no issues.

To be fair though, I've had BT regular broadband in the past too, and other than speed not being the best in my area, didn't have any trouble with them then either.

Got a few customers on the various Infinity packages and don't recall any mentioning problems.

[s2rrr]

Hi Ash,

I too have BT infinity and its an improvement on the previous version with anything up to 5 or sometimes more wireless devices running all together it seems to work fine. You may get some mileage negotiating the price a bit as they often have discount periods, normally just after you've signed up, but I've been with BT for ever and apart from not being able to speak with a real person if it ever goes wrong its just a price issue. Luckily it hasn't gone wrong yet so its probably more expensive but pretty good.

Bob

[Blatman]

It's been showing as available in my area for a year but it actually isn't. BT's website shows exchanges that can support fibre optic, but until your local street cabinet has been upgraded you won't get it. Currently my next door neighbour has it, but I don't 'cos we're on different cabinets. That's *really* annoying...

To check more accurately if the local cabinet is ready to go, enter your postcode here: http://fttc-check.alc.im/

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman)]

I had the same problem Blatters, my "end of the cabinet" wasn't ported over for nearly fourteen months after the basic cabinet went in.

[Blatman]

Mines not even part of a potential uplift programme at the moment...

I have also recently discovered an exchange in London SW1 that isn't 21CN yet, it's still all ADSL Max

I've had 6Mb/sec out of it...

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman)]

I'm at a remote end of a tacked on set of cards, with ****** aluminium last links :bangshead: :bangshead: :bangshead:

ADSL with BE - the fastest I could get, AND with BE tuning the line for me, got about 2.2Mb/sec. Could push it to 3.1 but lost all reliability.

Even on fibre I only get 14Mb/sec on a great day. But to me that's a vast improvement. I just need a cunning plan to loose the aluminium.

[GreigM]

I'm with Eclipse, but to be honest I wouldn't recommend them - when you do have a problem their support is useless and slow, and they're very slow offering the 80/20 product which I would be able to get on BT. I think BT would be the best bet as at the end of the day they supply the wires and I think they have more "depth" to their support if you do have a real connection issue.

My speed just now is reasonable, but it does swing up and down a bit:

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman)]

Git I can only dream of such speeds.

[Wile E. Coyote]

We have the BT offering - had to kick up a fuss with them to get it. Endless "pass the parcel" between Retail and OpenReach with one saying it wasn't available at our cabinet, the other saying it was (Retail's database lags behind OpenReach's).

For anyone who is trying to choose based on infrastructure etc, Plusnet also have an offering now. Guess who they're owned by...? Oh yes, the one they don't offer speed comparisons against in their adverts. And perhaps already mentioned above.

Also, worth bearing in mind that you need the router within a short distance of the master socket (and 13a socket). Chap who installed ours was kind enough to configure the socket I nominated as the new master, even if he did think the choice of socket a little odd.

[dombanks]

Im With virgin 60mb whenever I've done a speed test it seems pretty much on the nose. No problems on the downloads either but I don't really do alot anyway so I don't really know what their limit is

[Arm]

Thanks gents. BT seem to come out ok from these comments. We have been looking at them and I wanted to be sure we were not making a mistake.

Any other comments ?

Ash

[SteveD]

Any other comments ?

Ash

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm let me think is that car finished yet

anyway is my new workshop finished don your garden yet wuv

[Arm]

Roofing ordered yesterday. Purlins went up this afternoon. 4 ton of hardcore outside waiting for mini digger. Rawbolts in holding stanchions secure..

Too far from the house to put power in unfortunately so just going to be a stable.

[SootySport]

Reasons why FTTC is not available yet,

1. Not avaiable in your exchange area at all.

2. Cabinet installed but may be waiting for a suitable 240v. connection.

3. Local council in dispute as to the cabinet location, sited in wrong place according to the plan.

4. Conservation area committee don't want more street furniture in their area.

5. Cabinet mainly serves an industrial park, OR and BT won't provide FTTC to business's, they are hoping for FTTP(premises) to be taken up by business users instead.

6. OR and BT just completely forgot about installing FTTC.

7. Distance to cabinet too far and not economic.