As a small update, just browsing on the BID, and clicked on the Giganet tab and noticed no activity and Trooli activity has dropped to one small set of works on the way to the exchange.

Whilst on the Giganet site, i pumped in my details to see if there were any updates as they did do a leaflet drop around a year ago, and on their page it shows them t the build phase. Once I registered my interest i get an email that says "Our full fibre home broadband is not yet available at the address you checked. But the good news is that you do live in a location that we’ll soon be connecting."

So, does that mean they would be using the Trooli infrastructure? Reason i ask is that i havent seen any other activity in the area, and there has been nothing ever showing on the BID for them, although the next town over seems to have a few roadworks booked by them.

Giganet use Openreach and CityFibre that I know of

I'm not aware of Giganet using Trooli or even aware of Trooli Wholesaling their networ

Correct. Giganet are also rolling out their own infra in some areas (Winchester at the moment).

Trooli seems to come in fits and starts - lots of activity, then goes quiet, then some duct clearing, then quiet. From what I understand you won't get any advertising or a leaflet drop until the service is actually live and ready to order. Where I am they've been building for 7 months + and still not live... so don't hold your breath!

Took a stroll out last night and saw what i can only describe as maybe 'unfinished' work.

Connector blocks barely 6ft from the ground with the fibre basically just hanging out the bottom and the rest of the coil just flapping around in the breeze and wouldnt take much for someone to yank them off.

Appalling workmanship!

The poor standard of Trooli work was discussed here back in April

https://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre/t/4705556-re...

Ok,it seems like they have been around and tidied everything up so at least they may have improved slightly!

Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions for a decent gigabit capable modem i can use with my Ubiquiti Edgerouter?

Don’t you just need a router that speaks PPPoE to connect into the Trooli supplied Adrian 621 ONT?

My thoughts too.

Ah ok, the ER has a PPPoE setting but i assumed i would need a modem similar to VDSL.

New to this

In reply to a post by Alucidnation:

Ah ok, the ER has a PPPoE setting but i assumed i would need a modem similar to VDSL. New to this

The good thing about FTTP is that the termination is active with Ethernet presentation... think of this as the modern day equivalent of the old Huawei HG612 box that we used with VDSL/FTTC, and attach your PPPoE capable hardware by Ethernet.

Thankfully with PON there isn't a "wires only" possible.

Edited by jchamier (Sat 20-Aug-22 16:41:24)