Moving to house with full fibre Gigaclear. Options before they connect us up.

stagger321

Hiya. 
End of this month we are moving from a house with full fibre BT broadband to a village where Gigaclear just laid Fibre, but no Open reach plans.
Current owners have slowish FTTC BT connection.
Gigaclear tell me it's a two stage install - cable to outside of house first, then rest of install. So we would be without broadband for about 10 days.
My son needs fast broadband for work.
Mobile reception is shocking, so can't use 4G/5G temporarily.
If we take our current BT fibre router i guess it won't work as it's not ADSL compatible.
If I get another ADSL router and connect it, will BT start a new contract I don't want, just for the sake of 10 days before Gigaclear connect us?
Thanks 👍

Mark_d

Perhaps your son can work from an office, or travel to somewhere where he can do his work over 4G/5G?  If broadband  was so important for you son, why did you choose to move to a village?  The place to go for fast mobile & & broadband is large towns and cities.

QrizB

Has the house purchase gone amicably so far? Can you persuade the current owners to leave their existing contract in place for a month, and leave the BT router behind?

littleboo

Are you out of the minimum term contract with BT at the current address -any early termination fees applicable?
Plugging in a router does not activate a service,.
How slow is "slowish" and how fast does your son need?

onomatopoeia99

stagger321 said:

My son needs fast broadband for work.

I WFH three days a week using a FTTC connection.  I remote desktop which needs low latency else it becomes tortuous.  It's absolutely fine on FTTC at the highest setting in remote desktop, with two 4K displays, and uses a fraction of the FTTC bandwidth to maintain it.

Can you exapnd on the deatil of  "needs fast broadband" if it's not for a remote desktop session.

iniltous

As stated , unless moving huge files around, downloading video , editing and then uploading, FTTC is usually ‘fine’ , people do often think they need much faster speeds than they actually need , obviously arranging FTTC in your case may not be wise , having to pay for two networks or pay  ETC to cease the recently provided FTTC services once the Alternative Network is in , the other thing ( and I may be unduly pessimistic ) if the AltNet lets you down and its considerably more than 10 days waiting , do they offer compensation as part of the Ofcom compensation scheme, many of these alternatives don’t provide compensation for failed dates , you wait for them until they install or they cancel your order