In reply to a post by Pedrostech:

Just been checking out some friends' addresses on Shoreditch on dslchecker. Seems that the blocks are EO, but a free standing building pretty much next to them have FTTC. The residents don't care tho as they're lucky enough to have VM.

What the residents in your building?
If you can get VM then there is small chances in getting fibre installed via BTOR, so I have read on here.

Paul

I live near Hascombe,Surrey, nowhere near Hackney. Just have a friend there. I'm on 11/1 FTTC in a BDUK FTTP in FTTC deployment, but cannot order FTTP here!

Edited by deleted (Sun 08-Feb-15 00:31:35)

Ah, ok, I must look at names when replying, at a quick glance I thought you was the OP

11/1 FTTC?
11 Mbps down and 1Mbit up? bit low, or are you that far from your cabinet?
Or are you getting ADSL speeds on a FTTC line, some providers do that, so I have been told.

Also if your cabinet is FTTC then you won't be able to get FTTP due to its one or the other, and where you have a FTTC Cabinet that's all you could get.
However depending on your exchange, you may be able to upgrade to FTTPod an on demand service, costs loads of money so I have heard.

Paul

MCM. Paul, MrS, everybody else

We've been here since the beginning, when 3Mbps didn't seem so unreasonable!

Thanks for your help. OK, so not a promising outlook, but good to know where I stand. I'm going to try and put this to the residents committee, and there's some commercial units in the block that might carry a bit of clout too.

However, it does sound like our best bet is to try and woo Hyperoptic, and get our management company on-side. I'll check out Relish too, although we do live it a bit of a Faraday Cage here...

Thanks again
SL

If you decide on the Hyperoptic route, either email or phone them to find out the minimal amount of homes that are required before they see it as viable.

But if you get enough then you may be lucky.

Good luck.

Paul

On the FTTP not strictly true, there is some native FTTP in Surrey where fttc is very slow. Not a lot but some, checker shows wbc fttp and wbc fttp estimates

mcsafforn not quite sure why you think that Hyperoptic will be a lot faster and more future proof, as they use the same 1 gib bandwith as openreach

Show me the 1 Gbps symmetric retail product using Openreach network and I'll reconsider.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

On the FTTP not strictly true, there is some native FTTP in Surrey where fttc is very slow. Not a lot but some, checker shows wbc fttp and wbc fttp estimates

I was referring to if they already had a FTTC cabinet setup connected to their PCP Cabinet.

Paul

In reply to a post by Fastman2:

mcsafforn not quite sure why you think that Hyperoptic will be a lot faster and more future proof, as they use the same 1 gib bandwith as openreach

Every Hyperoptic customer has Gigabit Ethernet back to a switch, which from there uses multiple 1Gb or a 10Gb backhaul, Sir.

The major difference is how the punters get to the backhaul. For 99% of us on SFBB via Openreach it's via VDSL which maxes out at less than 80Mb down, 20Mb up for right now and there is no upgrade path without installation of new hardware for most due to the laws of physics - vectoring helps but the majority still won't be able to get to 100Mb download, which is the 'middle' Hyperoptic tier, and certainly not the 100Mb upload speed that comes with the Hyperoptic product.

Hyperoptic can deliver symmetrical 1Gb to any customer at the push of a button. A comparable Openreach product for consumers just doesn't exist right now and even if it were released less than 1.5% of the SFBB covered areas would be able to receive it.

Edited by deleted (Sun 08-Feb-15 17:24:38)