Update on my Fibre installation. Cabinet 83

Hooray!! My new TalkTalk Fibre was installed today by a great guy from OpenReach. He relocated my master socket into my living room at my request, configured the modem and router, and all completed in under 45 minutes!

Here are my test results. Please note that as I only opted for the "up to 40 Mbps package" at this stage, this is about what I was expecting:

if you stuck on 35Mb/s now, would you get up to a faster speed anyway? surly you should be getting about 37Mb/s.

i wish you luck in keep your service hassle free, between Talk Talk and Bt they sure to muck something up

Some good news for me RE Sky's very low estimate of the line speed! After spending half hour or so yesterday messing around connecting the two routers together so I can still use my 5ghz one that I was using before, I had to reboot the sky router and openreach modem. Not sure what the actual synch speed is now as I can no longer see the sky router over wifi, but the throughput speed has gone from 65 to 71+ mbps, so it was definitely worth paying the £10 a month extra going from 40mbps to 71 when Sky said we could only get 42-46 max

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

if you stuck on 35Mb/s now, would you get up to a faster speed anyway? surly you should be getting about 37Mb/s.

i wish you luck in keep your service hassle free, between Talk Talk and Bt they sure to muck something up

Good point; I've checked again, and the terms of my package are shown as "up to 38Mb/s", so my mistake in stating up to 40 Mb/s above.

The good news is that a recent test showed 37Mb/s on speedtest.net, so I'll do another test with "thinkbroadband" later. Thanks for drawing my attention to this.

In reply to a post by markipad:

Good point; I've checked again, and the terms of my package are shown as "up to 38Mb/s", so my mistake in stating up to 40 Mb/s above.

that is the new legal thing now, they got to say what the user will get and not what the connection can be, but it is still a load of rubbish to be honest

The good news is that a recent test showed 37Mb/s on speedtest.net, so I'll do another test with "thinkbroadband" later. Thanks for drawing my attention to this.

not a problem.

HELLLPPPPP !!!
can anyone help .. on all fibre checking on bt talk talk and sky according to them with my postcode and house number I can get fibre optic broadband .. I was with talk talk .. my fibre order failed 3 times .. phoned bt and said come to us and we will sort it all out for you .. so moved to them the fibre failed again .. but they said just join for adsl then we can definately sort out the fibre for you the next day .. did that phoned up to upgrade the fibre and they said you cant get fibre !!! [censored] !!! its annoying why state everywhere i can get it and it still states I can get it .. please can someone help !!!

i know a couple of people who got the same problem, it seems BT have no idea what they are doing. There are other people who got a poster on their cabinet saying Fibre is here and yet when they look to see if it is, they find out it is not.


Typical of the UK,

the thing is all checkers on their websites says I can get it !! which is the frustrating thing

What's your postcode? PM it to me if you don't want to post on the forum.

can any one tell me what broadband speed I will get if my uplift is 23.47 did a check on the ffc check ?