Paying to get fibre to the house

Croft12

AndyPK wrote: »

only 3 providers supply fibre to premises, which means the monthly cost is very high!

I wouldn't want it!

FTTP costs are generally the same as the equiv non budget packages.

JJ_Egan

BT news free upgrades to fibre for many .


https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/10098099/bt-upgrading-super-fast-broadband/

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JJ_Egan wrote: »

BT news free upgrades to fibre for many .


https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/10098099/bt-upgrading-super-fast-broadband/

Interesting that they're stopping the sale of ADSL excepting the ones who can't get fibre at all.

Browntoa

If , as you say , the speeds have dropped since an increase in homes and businesses around you then it sounds like a lack of capacity from the exchange and so everyone is getting their speed throttled.

Fibre to the property would not change that throttled capacity from the exchange

Croft12

Colin_Maybe wrote: »

Interesting that they're stopping the sale of ADSL excepting the ones who can't get fibre at all.

Fuller explanation:


https://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/8559-upgrades-for-700-000-bt-customers-and-bt-halo-converged-services-to-launch


On Browntoa's point actually it (generally) does. Due to the higher speeds of fttp the backhaul capacity usually has to be increased to supply it (sometimes there is a delay in that happening) but it more or less will happen

onomatopoeia99

Mrs_Arthur_Crown wrote: »

If anyone has managed to get their copper connection changed to the "fibre to premises" who did you contact. Openreach? A local contractor? Your Broadband Provider? More to the point, how much did it cost as I am sure the road probably will need digging up.

You order it from an ISP, if they offer it. You may be able to get "on demand" FTTP where the ISP will arrange with BT Wholesale to get Openreach to come round and install optical fibre back to the cabinet, but you would have to pay the costs of this work which will be thousands. The ISP I use offers FTTP but not "FTTP on Demand".

Openreach are not a consumer facing organisation. They are a division of BT that deals with wholesale clients like ISPs and telecoms companies. As you do not and cannot buy anything from Openreach, they will not deal with you.

The alternative is to get a private circuit (aka "leased line") which is your own dedicated ethernet or fibre optic connection back to the telecoms provider's nearest point of presence. You can avoid install costs on this but would have to commit to a contract for several years at £300/month, or more, depending on location.

TV shows generally come from an aerial or satellite dish, so those should not fail if your internet connection goes down.

Peter999_2

I had FTTP installed a couple of weeks ago. Mine comes from a cabinet in my street - it has pipes in the cabinet which go to each individual house. When they came to install it they "blew" fibre from the cabinet to my house, extended it up my garden and to my house.



Talktalk installed it and I now get 1000mbps download and 1000mbps upload for £25 a month. It's great and really makes a massive difference, especially the upload when I transfer stuff to OneDrive.