Moving home

Hello all I'm moving currently on community fibre 1gig broadband

I'm moving to up north

Currently it has the fibre up to 76mpbs

But not the fibre up to 900mpbs

It says on wholesale that it has GFast there

The people say they get around 150mpbs so would they need to leave the GFast equipment there so I can sign up and plug in my own router

I look on wholesale checker it says it not a FTTP priority exchange but the fibre coming soon can be unreliable it says NOW and end of 2026

So if the fibre checker says now and end of 2026 will it still get fibre I know of stories where they do half the street and forget the rest due to PANS or something

The reason I say it unreliable one area I looked at said FTTP is not being built there and just this week FTTP is there so I don't want to hold my hopes up incase it don't happen

G.Fast was the short-lived (in terms of deployment) faster version of Openreach (BT and most other ISPs) FTTC. Restricted to those close to the Openreach cabinet.

No equipment needed though most ISPs would supply a router. Which you could simply leave in its box and use your own.

Okay as I can't find anyone selling GFast

Can I sign up to a fttc package and ring up and ask for it be upgraded to GFast


Also is there any idea when SR7 will get the upgrade to FTTP

Hello another strange thing is that the street is virgin media cabled

I have sent this email to Virgin media

Hello I was wondering if I can be connected to virgin media

I'm moving to

**P enzance bungs SR7 9** your postcode checker says no virgin media is there however the houses bang opposite have virgin media for example

* penzance Bungs SR7 9** has access to virgin media as the cable is meters away from my property is there any chance virgin media could thread a cable to me and the houses next door have virgin media and behide me has virgin media but for some reason this property does not

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I have attached screenshots to show the short distance.

I have checked the houses next door to the property toft cres SR7 9**

Now I don't know if there is a cable there as the house is unquie with its own postcode but it seems strange how all other houses are connected behide side and across the road and this one is not connected

I really hope we can find a way to connect this property I'm signing the papper work in a few weeks time


So all the hoses next door across the road and behide the house have virgin media but this property does not

Is there a chance this can be fixed by virgin media or looked into as it seems a bit stupid that everything is there but the property can't access it I don't know if there they spilt or thread a cable to go into the house

In both of these postcodes in Penzance and Toft Crescent shows Virgin Media is live (1000 Mbps - FTTP) according to bidb.uk Virgin Media even shows "Your home will be powered by our full fibre connection".

But this doesn't look to me to be Nexfibre as it is limited to 1Gbps instead of the 2Gbps that is available for Nexfibre customers. But it is Full Fibre rather than Cable. Probably this is a Virgin Media Project Mustang upgrade.

You can't feed the cable from one house to another. The only way is if some generous folk either connected their Ethernet cable from their router to your house or gave you their WiFi network.

You can get G.Fast via https://www.aa.net.uk/broadband/home1/gfast-prices/
https://www.cerberusnetworks.co.uk/connectivity?q=co...
https://www.unchainedisp.net/broadband.html
https://www.filesanctuary.net/broadband/sogfast

But they are usually quite a bit more expensive than a normal FTTC service since most of the mainstream ISPs do not offer G.Fast anymore. This makes the service more expensive especially since those smaller ISPs are naturally more expensive than the rest.

You will also need an Openreach G.Fast modem as the engineer no longer provides it. If you don't have it available in your home then you'll need to buy it separately from ebay otherwise you won't be able to connect your router without it.

Can you post up your result from the BT wholesale checker? Just anonymise it and use an image hosting website for the link to post here.

Hello how do I upload images on the phone

Thanks if you want I can send you the postcode of the property via PM

Yeah the virgin media problem is that all the houses around it are cabled up however this home has not I don't know weather it was built when the cables were laid or as S it had it own postcode it was forgotten or they put it as a different address

Sure if easier just PM me the postcode and number of the property and I’ll take a look.

I sent you a PM

Looking at the maps it looks like this for virgin media

https://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/broadband-map#...

Use postcode SR79JS to pint point house it seems to be in the middle of the blue dots but not connected I don't know if it been missed out or it was forgotten about

In reply to a post by Caw1990:

Use postcode SR79JS to pint point house it seems to be in the middle of the blue dots but not connected I don't know if it been missed out or it was forgotten about

Maybe just not ordered by existing residents?

The results from the BT Wholesale checker here, indicate that you can order a SOGfast service (basically its now G.fast without the underlying voice service on the copper) at your new address.

Edited by Pheasant (Mon 21-Apr-25 14:26:40)

In reply to a post by jchamier:

Maybe just not ordered by existing residents?

Virgin service is not available for that property / postcode according to the VM website.

OP does however have a healthy Openreach SOGfast broadband option available to order.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

In reply to a post by jchamier:

Maybe just not ordered by existing residents?

Virgin service is not available for that property / postcode according to the VM website.

OP does however have a healthy Openreach SOGfast broadband option available to order.

from tbb's mapping

TBB

Looks like a small area of blue dots and I'm in it

So how do I go about GFast option would I buy a modem off eBay and call a provider or do it online

Could sky fttc get upset and than upgrade to GFast?

Yeah hopefully the OP can get something more substantive from Virgin other than 'computer says no'. There is Virgin RFOG network all around that address, however they are in different postcodes

From what I can see the OP is in his "own" single postcode - that is only a single UPRN is assigned to the postcode.

Ordering from Virgin may be as simple as getting their database correctly updated with the postcode and UPRN for the OP.

In reply to a post by Caw1990:

Looks like a small area of blue dots and I'm in it

So how do I go about GFast option would I buy a modem off eBay and call a provider or do it online

Could sky fttc get upset and than upgrade to GFast?

For SOGFast (G.fast) see some providers, as quote from post above:

In reply to a post by BLaZiNgSPEED:

You can get G.Fast via https://www.aa.net.uk/broadband/home1/gfast-prices/
https://www.cerberusnetworks.co.uk/connectivity?q=co...
https://www.unchainedisp.net/broadband.html
https://www.filesanctuary.net/broadband/sogfast

Some of these providers will provide a router for you to use. Best to discuss with them before buying anything of eBay etc.

I have emailed them explaing as best I can saying the property is surrounded by cables but I think as it's own postcode it has complicated things I will hopefully hear from them tomorrow or in a few days

Yeah I can get the GFast off eBay but hopefully a supplier will supply a router than I just handle around 150mobs

But virgin might say we can supply you as it could be a database error.

Thing is I have never seen a property with its own postcode before it's quite strange in my view

If there are Virgin Toby pots on the footpath on your side of the street, then odds on they will be able to serve you.

Your surest bet though is either FTTC or SOGfast from the Openreach network depending on what sort of speeds you need.

I'm in my own postcode in Suffolk, but it covers an area of around 50 odd acres. Amazon delivery drivers used to have issues as their maps would show the delivery point as the geographic centre-point of the postcode, which is a large field. Luckily they had enough working brain-cells to work out the house was the place where deliveries should be left 🤣

I'm not so lucky the postcode area I getting is just one little house I have no idea how it happen. Postcode is just a tiny square compared to other postcodes

Will this postcode has problems with the fibre rollout fttp I know it says on the website between now and Dec 2026 but I don't know weather they mis it out thinking it not worth it

The telegraph poles on the road links multiple homes up so it's on a pole with quite a few wires going out for openreqxh services

I wouldn't worry about the Openreach FTTP rollout for now.

They have their hands full for quite a few more years. Can't unfortunately do everywhere at once. It will come your way when it comes.

Unitil then you have some reasonable alternatives.

Yeah it says between now and DEC 2026 so I try get a gfast 12 months or convince virgin to see if they can do me

In reply to a post by Caw1990:

I'm not so lucky the postcode area I getting is just one little house I have no idea how it happen. Postcode is just a tiny square compared to other postcodes

Will this postcode has problems with the fibre rollout fttp I know it says on the website between now and Dec 2026 but I don't know weather they mis it out thinking it not worth it

The telegraph poles on the road links multiple homes up so it's on a pole with quite a few wires going out for openreqxh services

It is per property some in a post code may get missed - we have that with my post code. Hence why we have Wessex internet funding as well as OR having done some of the properties.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

I'm in my own postcode in Suffolk, but it covers an area of around 50 odd acres. Amazon delivery drivers used to have issues as their maps would show the delivery point as the geographic centre-point of the postcode, which is a large field. Luckily they had enough working brain-cells to work out the house was the place where deliveries should be left 🤣

could have been worse and you got a "delivered" notifcation and you see a photo of in the large field 🤭. We've had non deliveries to Frisbees.......

The telegraph pole is in the postcode next to it on Google maps looks like it has around 11 wires connecting mine and 10 others just have to wait and see what happens

Just spoke to virgin media

They said as the cables were laid behide the properties of the other side and it's isolated it can't be connected to there network which is a shame

Some guy who from the planning said it can't be done.

So looking into what can be done now so it looks like sogfast