just pace out the walking distance from your home to the cab on Ophellia Drive

Plus the distance between it and the FTTC cab.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Condensation on the fibre - light can't get through the mist so well.

It's an appealing theory

But I suspect the reason is much more mundane- someone between me and the cabinet has an electrically noisy heating system

I've just ordered Unlimited this morning and the installation date is 11th Feb. I also live on Mark Antony Drive (last house onto Ophelia Drive) and probably less than 50 yards to the Ophelia Drive cab. The checker was quoting 37.5 down/9.8 up.

Previously with BT I couldn't get much more than 2Mb so I switched to Sky's LLU product which upped the speed to around 4.5mb.

I'm a bit concerned about the FUP, particularly the 30 day throttling period so may end up flipping back to SSL Usenet rather than P2P but I'm happy to take the risk.

Dave

Edited by deleted (Thu 27-Jan-11 17:07:15)

In reply to a post by Fatlab:

I've just ordered Unlimited this morning and the installation date is 11th Feb. I also live on Mark Antony Drive (last house onto Ophelia Drive) and probably less than 50 yards to the Ophelia Drive cab. The checker was quoting 37.5 down/9.8 up.

Previously with BT I couldn't get much more than 2Mb so I switched to Sky's LLU product which upped the speed to around 4.5mb.

I'm a bit concerned about the FUP, particularly the 30 day throttling period so may end up flipping back to SSL Usenet rather than P2P but I'm happy to take the risk.

Dave

Usenet > P2P every day of the week Dave

Its great to hear other people getting installation dates straight away but its quite unfair that if you order it from one ISP you have to wait 72 hours to find out your installation date whereas you order from BT and get told an install date straight away.

I thought the whole point of Openreach and BT supposedly being separate entities was that each ISP was provisioned and treated equally? it doesn't seem to be the case based on my experience so far.

I ordered mine from Aquiss yesterday and still not a sniff of an install date from Openreach.

it will be getting done equivalently thats a guarantee, however the way you cp progress the order might hold it up.

the appointment books are the same for all cps, btr don't have a special one

I looked at the Aquiss option but couldn't justify the uplift. Static IP addressing would have come in handy but I can bodge it with DynDNS.

Given your Usenet > P2P comment I'm assuming there must have been something other than the FUP that moved you away from BT?

I'm not a big fan of them and remember the [censored] and hassle with TPON and having to pay£100/month for an ISDN2e line and spoof the 60 minute time out for free calls with the Internet Anytime package via a somewhat expensive Cisco 803 router ....

In reply to a post by Dilbert:

I thought the whole point of Openreach and BT supposedly being separate entities was that each ISP was provisioned and treated equally? it doesn't seem to be the case based on my experience so far.

I ordered mine from Aquiss yesterday and still not a sniff of an install date from Openreach.

You seem intent on creating conspiracies where there are none.
Ask your ISP why they are not able to process your order and make an appointment with Openreach and advise you of the date sooner.

In reply to a post by andyboygsi:

it will be getting done equivalently thats a guarantee, however the way you cp progress the order might hold it up.

the appointment books are the same for all cps, btr don't have a special one

I think that remains to be seen, if they come back to me with a date beyond the 11th of Feb then its clear that its definitely not the case.

I think that remains to be seen, if they come back to me with a date beyond the 11th of Feb then its clear that its definitely not the case.

I'll give you some bandwidth after the 11th

Dave

In reply to a post by Fatlab:

I looked at the Aquiss option but couldn't justify the uplift. Static IP addressing would have come in handy but I can bodge it with DynDNS.

Given your Usenet > P2P comment I'm assuming there must have been something other than the FUP that moved you away from BT?

I'm not a big fan of them and remember the [censored] and hassle with TPON and having to pay£100/month for an ISDN2e line and spoof the 60 minute time out for free calls with the Internet Anytime package via a somewhat expensive Cisco 803 router ....

I have a bit of a history with BT from way back in dial up days (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/11/01/bt_sends_woman_467page_bill/), had issues before that one and then all the messing around when on a TPON to force through an ADSL order (BT engineer left with a crate of beer that day) and generally rate them as one of the worst companies on the planet so I just couldn't bear the thought of going back to them as an ISP.

Aquiss have a fair and clear cut FUP and the unlimited off peak usage is what appeals to me as I am happy to schedule all my uploading and downloading to run during the night as I have been doing that for years anyway.

The thing thats most frustrating about Mark Antony drive is all the cable TV hatches and ducting, that's got no cable in them!!!! I asked Virgin several times if they would lay cable here and they even entered into conversations with me about it once and said they would look into it but it all went very quiet when BT announced their FTTC plans for this area and I haven't heard from them since.

Waited a long time for a decent connection so I guess another few weeks wont kill me