mmm

you complain about other poster but you decided to post this

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That gives Openreach plus the competition 20-30 years to reach 85% rollout of FTTP. wink. But none of them dare slacken off for fear of being wiped out.

misinformed and disinforrmed as ever

In reply to a post by Fastman3:

mmm

you complain about other poster but you decided to post this

chuckle]
That gives Openreach plus the competition 20-30 years to reach 85% rollout of FTTP. wink. But none of them dare slacken off for fear of being wiped out.

misinformed and disinforrmed as ever

It's unclear which other poster you mean. Maybe you need to learn to write sense,

It's possible you refer to the poster that was a reply to, but couldn't even quote without messing up. If so, you don't understand plain English either, as there is no criticism there of him.

This is now the 32nd post in this thread. OP one. Relevant and possibly helpful to him, the first four replies and the second one by amiga_dude.

Given you have just made your only post in the thread, what is the point of your existence? Are you proud?

Sincere apologies for the delayed reply - we did leave for a holiday soon after (did the four countries tour of GB), and since returning I can't usually access the site during working hours (this forum was somewhat addicting to read sometime back, so installed a plugin that blocks certain websites, during work hours!

Anyway, so the area we live in, the houses were built a very, very long time ago - maybe circa 60's. All the houses, or at least most houses have an access at the back. what we may refer to as a 'back alley'. Our back gardens exit there, and the bins etc are collected from there, too.

Most OpenReach poles in the area, are in these back alley's, so that is how current OpenReach telephones lines come - to the back of the house.

Hence the question, as CityFibre's 'line' will come from this same pole.

After looking further into this new contract, it seems this area isn't yet ready, and although everything from CityFibre was sorted sometime back, apparently the internet isn't yet ready for this area, and could be another 9 months or so - or it could be sooner, or it could be later - yes - never did get a straight answer from Vodafone.

Thanks to all the replies, I have got some useful information, including the 15 metre rule - I think we may come within this limit, however, as advised by someone, I shall ensure the tea/coffee/biscuits are at the ready - eventually when it does become live!

EDIT: Here's a stock picture of what it would potentially look like, for those shocked at the concept of a pole at the back - here.

Edited by JakeRoof (Mon 23-Aug-21 11:35:54)

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we weren't able to take out a line using CityFibre's network last August 2021, however, that day finally came today (albeit a year late, might I add!).

For anyone interested, the CityFibre installers from Kelly Communication, were very understanding, and exactly as requested, that's where they put as the point of entry into the house, despite extra work for them.

Their workmanship was second to none, and left it all extremely neat. They did mention houses they've worked on get randomly audited in terms of the quality of the work they produce, so the work has to be top notch.

I'm just adding in this information, should anyone else find themselves in a similar predicament.

Nice one Jake. Glad it all went well. 👍

(The other 99% of this thread made me chuckle. Again)

In reply to a post by JakeRoof:

For anyone interested, the CityFibre installers from Kelly Communication, were very understanding, and exactly as requested, that's where they put as the point of entry into the house, despite extra work for them.

Their workmanship was second to none, and left it all extremely neat. They did mention houses they've worked on get randomly audited in terms of the quality of the work they produce, so the work has to be top notch.

Kelly's have had a bad reputation so its really good you have posted something positive about them, lets hope this becomes the norm.

Hope you enjoy your new connection

Pluralist

It is common is Wales as well, Many back alleys in Cardiff and the valleys have poles in. It has had the benefit that there has been very little road disruption while they have been clearing ducts etc in those areas. Also helps where there are rows of low terraced houses as no high vehicles use the lanes and therefore the OH cables don't get torn down, normal termination height may only be 14 foot (4.5m).