At the end of the day the best answer you will get is when we seek to deliver 100% coverage at superfast or better speeds we will be back to look at your area.

Yes you can question, but to be frank unless a project is working to 100% at superfast they can ignore you.

Current 100% target is 2 Mbps and for many of those not helped already this is likely to be satellite based.

If you lobby politicians they will point to the next 95% superfast projects, and the work for the final 5% that is looking at the costs of delivering so we can get as near to 100% as possible without spending £20,000 on one house.

Suspect this happened simply because you were on the same bundle of wires as the premises that did benefit, so no point in leaving you as a sole EO line.

Thanks MrSaffron - I do appreciate your input.

There are 76 properties in the same position as I - I appreciate its impossible to say accurately, but do you have any idea what the cost would be for a community funded solution? Perhaps to get a new cabinet installed local to us all. Obviously just looking for a very very rough ballpark figure

do you have any idea what the cost would be for a community funded solution?

£20K and upwards, We have paid BT to install an all-in-one PCP/DSLAM to provide FTTC capability to our 75 EO properties in central London. If you do decide to go this route don't expect the solution to appear overnight, it is more likely to take around a year.

S18 1UY, 15 in S18 1WA S18 1UZ are the postcodes in a cluster, the rest are north of the train line and getting superfast speeds, i.e. the majority benefited by a clear margin.

So yes its £20,000 to £25,000 to add a cabinet to serve those properties, things like power costs can significantly raise the cost or if you just want to resolve your own property a copper network rearrangement at a couple of thousand may be possible. Another option is to wait and see what happens with FoD2 i.e. the ability to order FTTP to a specific address so long as in a FTTC enabled area. FoD v1 was a couple of thousand, but trials are looking at reducing the cost by how much no one will confirm. Trials will last all summer, and so probably nothing concrete until New Year.

Should add if you go down the FTTC route a year to going live seems to be rough timescale by the time planning and building it has taken place, might be longer as the pressure is on to hit the various BDUK targets.

Edited by MrSaffron (Wed 09-Sep-15 19:25:26)

In reply to a post by Bladesman:

I have read plenty of people who have got decent speeds from further away than 1km. As it stands it is costing me the same price as adsl for my 12 month contract so not much point cancelling, what I was hoping for was ways to improve it, will it increase after the DLM period?

With FTTC DLM, the speed starts high and goes down, with ADSL it goes the other way IIRC

Sky ADSL2+ DLM starts low and can go higher.

BT Wholesale WBC ADSL2+ DLM starts high usually and will add more target margin if deemed necessary, i.e. slowing you down.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

At the end of the day the best answer you will get is when we seek to deliver 100% coverage at superfast or better speeds we will be back to look at your area.

Yes you can question, but to be frank unless a project is working to 100% at superfast they can ignore you.

Current 100% target is 2 Mbps and for many of those not helped already this is likely to be satellite based.

If you lobby politicians they will point to the next 95% superfast projects, and the work for the final 5% that is looking at the costs of delivering so we can get as near to 100% as possible without spending £20,000 on one house.

Surely the cost of one house via satellite nowhere approaches that figure

Ok so DLM has kicked in and turned on interleaving lowering the speed to under 10 and increasing latency to 20ms. Not happy about this at all, I will be getting this cancelled and going back to adsl2. I think with the speed being nowhere near advertised, they should do this for free and let me out of my fibre contrac?

Are you sure your modem supports G.INP?