In reply to a post by Anonymous:

Finally have seen the cabinet going in that will feed Boscobel Rd and the top half of Collinswood Drive, didnt think it was going to happen as the 30th of June was closing in fast

The cabinet might be going in but it could be weeks before it goes live. It's the electrical contractors that seem to hold everything up. The cab near me was put in at the beginning of March and only went live last week.

I'm able to order now (De Cham Rd). But Sky won't allow existing TV customers to change to the all-in-one plans, which is incredibly frustrating.

The options are very limited at the moment. I think I'm going to wait it out until fibre becomes more than a BT, Virgin or Sky thing. I've heard nothing but nightmares with Sky. I used Virgin back in 2009 in Bournemouth (Bournemouth was the first ever 'fibre-city') and I got 50mbps consistently, but I think their service has degraded since then.

Holding hope that Be/O2 will hurry up and begin their fibre upgrade soon.

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I'm able to order now (De Cham Rd). But Sky won't allow existing TV customers to change to the all-in-one plans, which is incredibly frustrating.

The options are very limited at the moment. I think I'm going to wait it out until fibre becomes more than a BT, Virgin or Sky thing. I've heard nothing but nightmares with Sky. I used Virgin back in 2009 in Bournemouth (Bournemouth was the first ever 'fibre-city') and I got 50mbps consistently, but I think their service has degraded since then.

Holding hope that Be/O2 will hurry up and begin their fibre upgrade soon.

I thought anyone could sign up for their broadband packages including fibre regardless. It's the Unlimited Pro one that's only available to new customers at the moment.

I decided to upgrade to their fibre service because it has finally been confirmed that there will be an upgraded path to the Pro service for existing fibre customers. Roll on the 20th.

I've had Sky broadband for a couple of years now and in all that time I've only had one problem, apart from their nationwide network failure a while back. The thing is, people that have issues with their service the air their opinions in public and not the satisfied customers.

If you don't want to go with Sky or BT there's Plusnet, ADSL24 and others offering fibre in the area and in August, Talk Talk will have their fibre packages available (although, from experience, I wouldn't wish TT on anyone)

Anybody able to order yet in the town centre?

I'm still waiting

FF

In reply to a post by simon194:

I thought anyone could sign up for their broadband packages including fibre regardless. It's the Unlimited Pro one that's only available to new customers at the moment.

I decided to upgrade to their fibre service because it has finally been confirmed that there will be an upgraded path to the Pro service for existing fibre customers. Roll on the 20th.

I've had Sky broadband for a couple of years now and in all that time I've only had one problem, apart from their nationwide network failure a while back. The thing is, people that have issues with their service the air their opinions in public and not the satisfied customers.

If you don't want to go with Sky or BT there's Plusnet, ADSL24 and others offering fibre in the area and in August, Talk Talk will have their fibre packages available (although, from experience, I wouldn't wish TT on anyone)

Well to be honest I'm in a good place right now. I got my O2 contract in 2008 and it is 100% unlimited, no peak-usage limits, no throttling, just absolute unlimited all month long. And I've somewhat grown accustom to that and don't intend on changing to anything but unlimited. If I change providers and lose that, I'd regret it, even with the faster speeds. And nowadays 'unlimited' never means unlimited any more...

So I think I'll wait it out a bit longer. Not ready for pay ~£60/m for fully-unlimited fibre.

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In reply to a post by simon194:

I thought anyone could sign up for their broadband packages including fibre regardless. It's the Unlimited Pro one that's only available to new customers at the moment.

I decided to upgrade to their fibre service because it has finally been confirmed that there will be an upgraded path to the Pro service for existing fibre customers. Roll on the 20th.

I've had Sky broadband for a couple of years now and in all that time I've only had one problem, apart from their nationwide network failure a while back. The thing is, people that have issues with their service the air their opinions in public and not the satisfied customers.

If you don't want to go with Sky or BT there's Plusnet, ADSL24 and others offering fibre in the area and in August, Talk Talk will have their fibre packages available (although, from experience, I wouldn't wish TT on anyone)

Well to be honest I'm in a good place right now. I got my O2 contract in 2008 and it is 100% unlimited, no peak-usage limits, no throttling, just absolute unlimited all month long. And I've somewhat grown accustom to that and don't intend on changing to anything but unlimited. If I change providers and lose that, I'd regret it, even with the faster speeds. And nowadays 'unlimited' never means unlimited any more...

So I think I'll wait it out a bit longer. Not ready for pay ~£60/m for fully-unlimited fibre.

That's why I've stuck with Sky. Talk Talk started complaining because my usage was over 200GB per month (a majority of that was work related) and in the end terminated my contract. I just love it when an ISP starts imposing their FUP after they've taken over the customer's of another ISP (originally with Bulldog) that offered proper unlimited broadband. Luckily I was already transfering to Sky on my second line so it wasn't too much of a problem.

Now it's regularly over 500GB a month by the time you add my son's online gaming and my daughter's film and music downloads and not heard a squeak from Sky about it.

In reply to a post by Fibre_fan:

Anybody able to order yet in the town centre?

I'm still waiting

FF

A lot of the town centre is on exchange only lines so no FTTC is available. Probabaly because the exchange used to be down Havelock Road where UCH is now.

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In reply to a post by Fibre_fan:

Anybody able to order yet in the town centre?

I'm still waiting

FF

A lot of the town centre is on exchange only lines so no FTTC is available. Probabaly because the exchange used to be down Havelock Road where UCH is now.

Cheers Simon, any idea if that includes White Rock road?

I'm sure, I'm associated with Havelock Road, but whether it's exchange only I've no idea....

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In reply to a post by simon194:

In reply to a post by Fibre_fan:

Anybody able to order yet in the town centre?

I'm still waiting

FF

A lot of the town centre is on exchange only lines so no FTTC is available. Probabaly because the exchange used to be down Havelock Road where UCH is now.

Cheers Simon, any idea if that includes White Rock road?

I'm sure, I'm associated with Havelock Road, but whether it's exchange only I've no idea....

The White Rock Road area should be connected to PCP 34 which is at the top of White Rock Gardens near the junction with White Rock Road.

I had the BT engineer in yesterday to set everything up. He had to go back to the cabinet to fix an issue but other than that it took less than an hour. Probably should take 30mins. On checking line speed so far the max i am able to receive is 25mb but this may go up or down. So far its only gone down so I don't think I'll get much more than that. As I was on 1.5mb I am over the moon, just a shame I can't get any nearer the 40mb. I'll update once the line settles down.