In reply to a post by Ribble:

A.N. Other ISP cannot place an order for FTTC on a line that has an active ADSL service. The OP would need to cease and reorder which would mean probably mean weeks without service. A migration should mean minimal time without service.

This is my understanding of ISP change over & upgrade to Fibre Broadband .

You're a very serious person. I was only joking!

I don't "have a problem with it" I'm just interested that's all, there's a difference. So basically the system won't let you place an order for FTTC when ADSL is already active on the same line. Still seems a bit unnecessary, because out in the network we can just take over an existing line that had ADSL with FTTC service instead.

Just going back to my post previously, activation date I've got is 22nd June for upgrade from Sky Broadband to Fibre, seems in line with expectation

XboxAsap, I'd be interested to hear why you are moving from Sky to BT for your FTTC?

You clearly did have a problem with it given the number of times you questioned others that were telling why a MAC was required.

In reply to a post by MCM:

You clearly did have a problem with it given the number of times you questioned others that were telling why a MAC was required.

As I said before, there's a difference between having a problem with it and being interested in why it is needed. No one told me why it was required actually, until a couple of posts ago. You told told me it was required, not why.

In reply to a post by Icaras:

XboxAsap, I'd be interested to hear why you are moving from Sky to BT for your FTTC?

There are a number of reasons why, which are relevant to my present & future requirements, which I choose not too discuss in this forum.
As you will be aware there are numerous ISP providers out there and I have chosen BT, who its seems to attract a some negative comment on this forum, as the saying goes ' Ones mans meat is another mans poison '
Thanks for the enquiry

I will be moving from Sky to Plusnet when my cabinet is done. One of the reasons is that Plusnet don't block any of the domains that I want to use on my Android TV box and I have found since Sky started to do their on demand TV speeds can vary at times it can be 50% of my line speed when it was always maxed out before.

I will do a little more research closer to the time but I personally wouldn't touch the BT product and yes I am aware that Plusnet are owned by BT but they do run it as a separate entity.

The MAC code method is/was there to make sure it's easy to change ISP with minimal, and sometimes no, downtime at all. I think a decade and a bit ago, OFCOM might even have ruled that all ISPs must comply with the MAC system of changing ISPs, because some ISPs were making it hard to change to another one. There's a very similar system in place for changing mobile operator whilst keeping the same phone number, it's there to solve a lot of problems people were having.

[Even if apparently Vodafone can't do that properly, according to Watchdog and a load of Vodafone's users.]

In reply to a post by XboxAsap:

In reply to a post by Icaras:

XboxAsap, I'd be interested to hear why you are moving from Sky to BT for your FTTC?

There are a number of reasons why, which are relevant to my present & future requirements, which I choose not too discuss in this forum.
As you will be aware there are numerous ISP providers out there and I have chosen BT, who its seems to attract a some negative comment on this forum, as the saying goes ' Ones mans meat is another mans poison '
Thanks for the enquiry

What is your predicted speed? Just be aware about the hub, I find that the Home Hub 5 is really good wifi wise but not on the default settings unfortunately. I had to endlessly play around with the wifi channels to get the great speed over wifi I do now (can max out my connection which is 70Mb).