on openreach side it will change a lot.

I am registered on a site with openreach engineers and they are saying job time will fall from 1-2 hours to 10 minutes.

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

I did that last week, I couldnt find a single vdsl modem sold in the uk apart from openreach ones on ebay or the friztbox.

Should've gone to SpecSavers :

Billion BiPAC 8200M

ZyXEL P-871M

edit to add:

And if you don't mind it not being in a pretty box:

NETGEAR VDSL/ADSL2+ Module (Annex A)

Couldn't quickly find any halfway detailed description/spec so it may not be particularly useful.

Edited by billford (Sun 30-Dec-12 20:28:45)

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

I am registered on a site with openreach engineers and they are saying job time will fall from 1-2 hours to 10 minutes.

That seems extremely unlikely.

Re-jumpering at the PCP and testing will take most of that. Then there is the travel time to the PCP, shared between the number of connections being made on the same visit, plus someone presumably has to alter the jumpering at the exchange as the copper will be unnecessarily connected to a DSLAM, (bearing in mind the fibre is often to a different exchange), and certainly if it is a move from LLU to BTW-based, and so on and so on ....

Anyway, nearly all the installs I've heard about, including my own, seemed to take around 30 minutes at the premises.

Not sure what the charge out costs is but it has to be in the region of £50 an hour. THe biiger benefit though is the actual time saving as BT seem to have a big resourse problem. It will mean the Engineers will be able to do a lot more installs and possibl som of the cost saving may be passed on

they routers not standalone modems

they said the rejumpering is a 10 minute job, the bulk of the time on current installs is at end user premises. My guy was here at least an hour.

Edited by Chrysalis (Sun 30-Dec-12 22:44:39)

yep, this will go a long way to tackling the current installs situation.

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

they routers not standalone modems

Wrong way round... read my comment re SpecSavers.

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

they routers not standalone modems

The devices Openreach hand out are VDSL routers, just like those, but in modem mode.

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

The devices Openreach hand out are VDSL routers, just like those, but in modem mode.

But only two ethernet ports and no wireless. As used by BatBoy, and I think a couple have copied his setup.