Landlord -Fibre to the home

Miss_Samantha

HappyMJ wrote: »

That looks like just the one hole through the wall to me and not much more than screws holding the other things up. A bit of polyfilla will sort that out and painting between tenancies is expected anyway so no additional cost to landlord.

Once Openreach has installed a cable to your house you cannot just chop it off outside whenever you please and fill the holes...

marsman802

marksoton wrote: »

I do sometimes wonder how quick people really need.

I get about 15MB at best. But i can run a Sky+ box,macbook,tablet and two smartphones off it without any lag whatsoever.

When i looked into fibre etc the cost was eye watering and/or restrictive on usage.

Just an observation!

You should see how much people pay in the USA for it.....

Guest101

Miss_Samantha wrote: »

Once Openreach has installed a cable to your house you cannot just chop it off outside whenever you please and fill the holes...

Well you can, you just need to return their property to them.


And make good any damage (just like the tenancy)

HappyMJ

Miss_Samantha wrote: »

Once Openreach has installed a cable to your house you cannot just chop it off outside whenever you please and fill the holes...

Of course you can it's your property. You can do what you like with it.

theartfullodger

marksoton wrote: »

I do sometimes wonder how quick people really need.

I get about 15MB at best. But i can run a Sky+ box,macbook,tablet and two smartphones off it without any lag whatsoever.

When i looked into fibre etc the cost was eye watering and/or restrictive on usage.

Just an observation!

I have Virgin Fibre to a student house I rent out. Recently upgraded to 70Mbps. Unlimited.

And Virgin TV included in the package. Small box, less intrusive that the pictures of the BT/Openreach stuff shown.

Students love the speed.

I normally avoid anything with involvement of the bearded one (see Bower's biography for reasons...) but have to say the service is very fast, genuinely aproaching 70Mbps - unlike the BT "Infinity" (now there's an amusing name..) which comes down copper for the last bit & struggles to sometimes get 20Mbps where I normally live (currently using neighbour's BT wifi, legally, in the Highlands: Crackin' day!

Anyone know how to get the fibre link moved to another supplier??

Miss_Samantha

HappyMJ wrote: »

Of course you can it's your property. You can do what you like with it.

It's not your property for one thing.

Then, of course, since they have installed the fibre at the property a latter occupier will not be able to call them again to install: They will have to call and pay for repairs (i.e. laying a new cable) of the damage some plonker did by chopping off the cable.

marksoton

theartfullodger wrote: »

I have Virgin Fibre to a student house I rent out. Recently upgraded to 70Mbps. Unlimited.

And Virgin TV included in the package. Small box, less intrusive that the pictures of the BT/Openreach stuff shown.

Students love the speed.

I normally avoid anything with involvement of the bearded one (see Bower's biography for reasons...) but have to say the service is very fast, genuinely aproaching 70Mbps - unlike the BT "Infinity" (now there's an amusing name..) which comes down copper for the last bit & struggles to sometimes get 20Mbps where I normally live (currently using neighbour's BT wifi, legally, in the Highlands: Crackin' day!

Anyone know how to get the fibre link moved to another supplier??

Oh i've no doubt it's great but i bet you're paying a hefty premium!

theartfullodger

Miss_Samantha wrote: »

It's not your property for one thing.....

Well, it is actually: See

http://www.landlordlawblog.co.uk/2010/08/31/urban-myth-when-a-landlord-lets-a-property-its-still-his/

.....So if you keep going into your tenants property, without their permission, that is unlawful.....

During a tenancy, even if rent isn't being paid, the house or flat is but landlord's investment, cf. tenant's home & property.


Yup, appreciate many landlords and agents disagree but, hey, there you go...

Cheers! Artful (Landlord btw..)

beeg0d

theartfullodger wrote: »

I have Virgin Fibre to a student house I rent out. Recently upgraded to 70Mbps. Unlimited.

And Virgin TV included in the package. Small box, less intrusive that the pictures of the BT/Openreach stuff shown.

Students love the speed.

I normally avoid anything with involvement of the bearded one (see Bower's biography for reasons...) but have to say the service is very fast, genuinely aproaching 70Mbps - unlike the BT "Infinity" (now there's an amusing name..) which comes down copper for the last bit & struggles to sometimes get 20Mbps where I normally live (currently using neighbour's BT wifi, legally, in the Highlands: Crackin' day!

Anyone know how to get the fibre link moved to another supplier??

Virgin's 'fiber' NOT FTTP its HFC (hybred fiber coper) fiber to the street cab copper to the house (though the copper is single core coaxel as appose to inifitys twisted pair so Virgins HFC network is far suppier to inifitys).

Dont worry you dont really have anything todo with the bearded one, he and his company has nothing todo with virgin media. Virgin media is owned by US cable company Liberty Global they just licence the Virgin name).

As for moving the link to another supplyer you cant because 1 its not fiber secondly ONLY Virgin run on their network unlike BT's.

* unless your rental propety happens to be in papworth cambridgeshire where virgin are triling true fiber (FTTP)

Miss_Samantha

theartfullodger wrote: »

Well, it is actually: See

The cable installed by Openreach is neither the tenant's nor the landlord's property.

Don't be so quick in trying to shoot me down, read the posts first...