I wonder if that's what OR will do for us... We're with BT but I've read that sometimes they offer digital voice, sometimes not. So, if not I would assume the phone still goes via the original master socket and the FTTP via the new ONT?

Don't know - I went digital voice and whether all have a copper pair, no idea. As he said at the time, mine was the only 160m cable they had.

Ah yes, I forgot that digital voice can work over copper, as some places will still be reliant on ADSL/VDSL when analogue gets retired...

If you have had FTTP installed in your home in 2021, I would welcome pictures of your installation inside your home and immediately on the outside of the building. In addition I would like to ask these questions please:
1) Any issues with your desired choice of location for the ONT?
2) If using your own router, what configuration was necessary?
3) How did you decide which speed to opt for?
4) Did you change provider and any consequence of doing so?
5) Any issues with your email address?
6) Did you give any consideration to having a UPS and if so what hardware did you select?
7) Were you obliged to go over digital voice (VoIP) for a voice service?
8) What contract period was you tied into?
9) May we know your ISP please

In reply to a post by trolleybus:

If you have had FTTP installed in your home in 2021, I would welcome pictures of your installation inside your home and immediately on the outside of the building. In addition I would like to ask these questions please:

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If you can picture a standard Openreach 5C telephone master socket, I have a white box about the same size but half its depth situated directly below it (its where I asked for it to be put). The fibre cable connects to the bottom (via a socket) and then over to the router. Outside is just like any normal telephone supply line off a pole.
1) Any issues with your desired choice of location for the ONT?
If I'd wanted it put upstairs they would have put it there. But my installation is geared to what works best for me

2) If using your own router, what configuration was necessary?
They supplied the WiFi router and my existing was just plugged in. I do have another which is still connected to the existing phone line and that will need it configuration changed when that gets used.

3) How did you decide which speed to opt for?
Mainly money! 500/500 unlimited was £39 a month. 1Gb/1Gb would cost £60. I just couldn't justify paying the extra cost for our usage. As it is with all 4 people using the net for streaming, Youtube, for instance, offers me 4K content and connects at anywhere between 120Mb to 250Mb/s (info gained from Stats for Nerds!).

4) Did you change provider and any consequence of doing so?
I will be. Zen, unfortunately (no complaints with them whatsoever), will be going. A local ISP is providing the FTTP. So far no consequences whatsoever - I'm out of contract with Zen. And the Fibre is working 100%

5) Any issues with your email address?
I never use ISP provided email addresses. I have a couple of my own domains email addresses plus a raft of hotmail etc. I just use them as normal.

6) Did you give any consideration to having a UPS and if so what hardware did you select?
Being rural I already have a couple of UPS's. Nothing worse than getting the router to die on FTTC. Anything to stop DLM possibly kicking in. With FTTP it'll still be handy to have the router on a UPS. Various makes: One, APC.

7) Were you obliged to go over digital voice (VoIP) for a voice service?
No. I could go over to VOIP or continue to use the existing (at my extra cost) telephone line. I tend to use a mobile anyway. Far more convenient.

8) What contract period was you tied into?
Two years, with no price increase in that time

9) May we know your ISP please
QuantumAir Fibre - they tend to do Lincolnshire anyway

In reply to a post by jchamier:

What is worth noting is that in my last power cut (about 4 years ago) the local mast for EE and Three went out as well, and the next nearest were overloaded, couldn't make calls or get internet. My work phone on Vodafone using a mast over the dual carriageway wasn't affected and kept working.

This is not as bad as you assume. If you had tried to make an emergency call, the "overloaded" cells would have found you capacity.

Surely for point 3, only you would know what is required.

In reply to a post by trolleybus:

If you have had FTTP installed in your home in 2021, I would welcome pictures of your installation inside your home and immediately on the outside of the building. In addition I would like to ask these questions please:
1) Any issues with your desired choice of location for the ONT?
2) If using your own router, what configuration was necessary?
3) How did you decide which speed to opt for?
4) Did you change provider and any consequence of doing so?
5) Any issues with your email address?
6) Did you give any consideration to having a UPS and if so what hardware did you select?
7) Were you obliged to go over digital voice (VoIP) for a voice service?
8) What contract period was you tied into?
9) May we know your ISP please

Specifically are you asking about Openreach FTTP or *any* FTTP service? The differences between Openreach and other AltNets may be small or considerable in certain ways and not necessarily directly comparable.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

In reply to a post by trolleybus:

If you have had FTTP installed in your home in 2021, I would welcome pictures of your installation inside your home and immediately on the outside of the building. In addition I would like to ask these questions please:
1) Any issues with your desired choice of location for the ONT?
2) If using your own router, what configuration was necessary?
3) How did you decide which speed to opt for?
4) Did you change provider and any consequence of doing so?
5) Any issues with your email address?
6) Did you give any consideration to having a UPS and if so what hardware did you select?
7) Were you obliged to go over digital voice (VoIP) for a voice service?
8) What contract period was you tied into?
9) May we know your ISP please

Specifically are you asking about Openreach FTTP or *any* FTTP service? The differences between Openreach and other AltNets may be small or considerable in certain ways and not necessarily directly comparable.

We have a community project which is going on nicely with surveyors coming next week. There are 74 properties in the scheme and as you can imagine end users choice of ISP could be anything. I am one of the points of contact with the residents to make sure everything goes through smoothly, it was bad enough guiding them through the pledge stages to ensure that they all received a voucher. The value exceeded handsomely the target set by Openreach mainly because of a large number of business vouchers issued. There were pledges from 83% of the properties; we were never going to get 100% because 5 properties do not use the internet at all.

I simple want to be clued up enough to be able to assist anyone with an issue especially as quite a few have in mind "spending" their vouchers with another ISP. We are told that once FTTP is available to order, then we must use the vouchers with 10 days. Of course I have researched the Internet extensively for answers but it seems what was the vogue of how things were done does not necessarily equate what will happen in September or shortly afterwards.

I understand that what you get from one ISP won't necessarily be replicated by another ISP and there are probably out there some ISPs that are best avoided. So bearing that in mind anything that you feel I should know about would be most welcomed.

In reply to a post by broadband66:

Surely for point 3, only you would know what is required.

No. I might be flushed enough to go for a speed that sounds great blissfully unaware that me existing router can't handle the higher speeds.