Full Fibre installation - will they pull through fibre internally?

QrizB

We've got 70-something Mbit/s FTTC.

For 90% of my use I'd probably be OK with 2Mb ADSL, and 56k dialup would suffice if it wasn't for sites (like this one) adding so many bells and whistles. This site could be served adequately by a late-90s phpBB installation, I suspect!

The other 10% it the bit with video streaming, but even that would fit into a smaller pipe than my current FTTC.

I agree with those who are suggesting that the biggest winners from FTTP are the telcos who can retire all their old kit.

southsidergs

You mean the old kit that costs more to maintain? Maybe they should let people keep it & pass the extra costs onto them

forgotmyname

My line is underground not overhead with an access point near the front door. They wanted to put the socket on the otherside
of the front wall but there are no power points in the area and all my network stuff is at the rear of the property.

Been a while but the first guy came and went without doing anything stating he needed to get openreach out. It
may have been the 2nd or 3rd visit and the guy said the only option was run the cables through the house. He
was on the phone for a while and said if he declines the job it will just get shunted to another engineer until
someone does the job required.

We have 2 master sockets from the days when we had 2 unique lines into the property and they had no issues feeding
a 2nd cable to the rear so puzzled me why they could not run the fibre the same route.
I could understand if there were tight bends etc. but they didn't even try.

I do seem to get more downtime than with the previous FTTC broadband but maybe that's due to them adding more customers?
It's usually late at night where most people are asleep so I notice it more than the average customer with a 9-5 job.

flaneurs_lobster

forgotmyname said:

My line is underground not overhead with an access point near the front door. They wanted to put the socket on the otherside
of the front wall but there are no power points in the area and all my network stuff is at the rear of the property.

Been a while but the first guy came and went without doing anything stating he needed to get openreach out. It
may have been the 2nd or 3rd visit and the guy said the only option was run the cables through the house. He
was on the phone for a while and said if he declines the job it will just get shunted to another engineer until
someone does the job required.

We have 2 master sockets from the days when we had 2 unique lines into the property and they had no issues feeding
a 2nd cable to the rear so puzzled me why they could not run the fibre the same route.
I could understand if there were tight bends etc. but they didn't even try.

I do seem to get more downtime than with the previous FTTC broadband but maybe that's due to them adding more customers?
It's usually late at night where most people are asleep so I notice it more than the average customer with a 9-5 job.

Not clear, did Openreach (or their contractors) eventually run fibre to the back of your property?