Fibre - "High demand" area

jd87

Hello. I am moving to a new area soon and trying to get my broadband sorted for my new property. It is in the W6 postcode area. Despite being less than a mile from one of Virgin Media's head offices, they do not offer a cable service in my street. Also the area seems to have fibre, but the exchange is currently "High Demand" on the Openreach website, and when I do availability searches on websites like BT, EE, Sky, etc they all say that it is not available right now. I had considered Relish wireless 4G broadband but it doesn't cover this area.

It's starting to look like I'm going to have no option but to go for bog standard copper broadband with an estimated speed of about 4 Mbps. Where I live now I have 100 Mbps Virgin Media broadband and use it all the time for streaming, Netflix, etc. Can anyone think of any suggestions? I really didn't think getting fast broadband was going to be a problem in London zone 2...

barclaysguy

I had the same issue couldnt order with bt/plusnet, however talktalk still let me order fibre and hit the 40mb maximum.

wiogs

jd87 wrote: »

Hello. I am moving to a new area soon and trying to get my broadband sorted for my new property. It is in the W6 postcode area. Despite being less than a mile from one of Virgin Media's head offices, they do not offer a cable service in my street. Also the area seems to have fibre, but the exchange is currently "High Demand" on the Openreach website, and when I do availability searches on websites like BT, EE, Sky, etc they all say that it is not available right now. I had considered Relish wireless 4G broadband but it doesn't cover this area.

It's starting to look like I'm going to have no option but to go for bog standard copper broadband with an estimated speed of about 4 Mbps. Where I live now I have 100 Mbps Virgin Media broadband and use it all the time for streaming, Netflix, etc. Can anyone think of any suggestions? I really didn't think getting fast broadband was going to be a problem in London zone 2...

I think one of the problems is that Virgin, in my experience, do not seem to be interested in expanding their infrastructure.

To be fair it is not just Virgin who seem to be lacking in trying to put in proper connectivity.

My friend lives in an area that has just had hundreds of homes built by different developers as part of a huge development of formerly farm land next to a major city.

He went to enquire who was putting in fibre to these new homes. No-one apparently is the answer.

Seems remarkably short sighted.

AJXX

wiogs wrote: »

I think one of the problems is that Virgin, in my experience, do not seem to be interested in expanding their infrastructure.

There will be more to it than that - if a business is going to make money on the long run you can bet they'll be all over it.

I used to work for BT a few years ago during the FTTC roll out.

It was amazing to see hundreds of people in an area who wanted FTTC and could not wait for it. Planning permission went in and was swiftly denied a few people moaned about "unsightly cabinets".

BT then moved on as the cost to make new plans that could possibly be rejected again was too high. 100's of people missing out because a few (no more than a handful of "not in my back yard" types kicked up a fuss about an extra cabinet)