When you are waiting for fttp

How did you cope waiting for fibre? I've been given a date for the completion of the local fibre build, which is great to manage things and get ready for the install.

Did you repeatedly check the street works websites, or check OR etc, and did you have regular checks around your locality?

whats the most extreame thing you have in regards waiting for fttp?

I'm waiting for xmas here - I at least know when it's coming every year and can manage expectations accordingly lolololol.

There is no sign of fibre at so many locations I deal with, and that's before we even talk about the EO sites on ADSL I still have

Though I will confess with a couple of ethernet installs I've dealt with my walk to site took me along the route of the civil works so was able to keep an eye on physical progress and often knew more than our account manager!

In reply to a post by Taras:

How did you cope waiting for fibre? I've been given a date for the completion of the local fibre build, which is great to manage things and get ready for the install.

Did you repeatedly check the street works websites, or check OR etc, and did you have regular checks around your locality?

whats the most extreame thing you have in regards waiting for fttp?

I watched and photographed the local (City Fibre) infrastructure installation but I only knew when it was live and available for taking orders by regularly watching CF's website, which I'm doing again now I want to know when it's been upgraded to 2.5Gb.

Waiting for / following the progress of the FTTP rollout in my area felt very much like a re-run of monitoring the rollout of FTTC a decade earlier. I visited the availability checker daily and when out & about, I was always on the look out for any activity by
Openreach or their contractors. For FTTP, I also regularly checked Streetworks and the BIDB database.

Truth be told, now that I have FTTP, I kind of miss the chase (how sad!), although I still maintain an interest/follow the progress of the rollout in others areas of my home town & surrounding areas

Again, this sounds a bit sad, but I must say that the feeling of excitement when FTTP finally shows as. ‘Available’ at your home address is great. Had the same feeling when FTTC showed as ‘Available’. I was so excited & felt like a kid at Christmas 😂

Edited by NGA (Sun 04-Feb-24 17:53:25)

Move home to somewhere with FTTP

In reply to a post by Taras:

How did you cope waiting for fibre? I've been given a date for the completion of the local fibre build, which is great to manage things and get ready for the install.

Be prepared for disappointment. Hopefully this won't happen to you, but there have been plenty of cases reported of fibre builds being abandoned part-way through, or subject to extremely long delays due to unforeseen problems.

It's nice to be given a "completion date", but in reality, it's not available until it's available.

In reply to a post by candlerb:

It's nice to be given a "completion date", but in reality, it's not available until it's available.

The 10 houses in my road can order from an AltNet, but the 30+ flats cannot yet. AltNet confirms they have Wayleave in place (as does landlord) its just their build teams are focusing on individual homes first. No sign of Openreach, so it leaves us with the slow FTTC or faulty DOCSIS coax… 😂

Look i annoyed OR enough ok 😂🙈😂....... fttp is coming very soon.......

In reply to a post by candlerb:

In reply to a post by Taras:

How did you cope waiting for fibre? I've been given a date for the completion of the local fibre build, which is great to manage things and get ready for the install.

Be prepared for disappointment. Hopefully this won't happen to you, but there have been plenty of cases reported of fibre builds being abandoned part-way through, or subject to extremely long delays due to unforeseen problems.

It's nice to be given a "completion date", but in reality, it's not available until it's available.

completely agree. we've had multiple dates nearly(minus 2022) every year since 2018. Its an interesting build though.

That is painful jchamier, i hope something gets sorted out quickly for you guys