Fibre

There was a thing in the local paper this week that my town has been upgraded to fibre cabling of some sort which enables speeds of up to 40meg.

What ISP's would offer this service or how do I find out?

blame Sinn Fein (Super Fibre in oirish)

See if your exchange has been upgraded to FTTC on SamKnows. Then RobertoS has a list of ISPs doing Fibre over BTw.

FTTC status:
Available in some areas

Type your telephone number into this link:

http://www.dslchecker.bt.com/adsl/adslchecker.welcome

Copy and paste it back in here (removing your telephone number and exchange if you like). We'll tell you what you can get.

Check out this page by RobertoS here on the forums for a list of suppliers:
http://www.robertos.me.uk/html/isps_offering_fttc.html

get back to us - thanks!

Your exchange is ADSL enabled, and our initial test on your line indicates that your line should be able to have an ADSL broadband service that provides a fixed line speed up to 1Mbps. However due to the length of your line the 1Mbps service may require an engineer visit who will, where possible, supply the broadband service.

Our test also indicates that your line currently supports an estimated ADSL Max broadband line speed of 3Mbps; typically the line speed would range between 2Mbps and 5.5Mbps.

Our test also indicates that your line currently supports an estimated ADSL2+ broadband line speed of 3Mbps; typically the line speed would range between 2.5Mbps and 6.5Mbps.

Our test also indicates that your line currently supports a fibre technology with an estimated WBC FTTC Broadband where consumers have received downstream line speed of 13.3Mbps and upstream line speed of 4.8Mbps.

The actual stable line speed supportable will be determined during the first 10 days of use. This speed may change over time, to ensure line stability is maintained.

Thank you for your interest.

Please note that postcode and address check results are indicative only. Most accurate results can be obtained from a telephone number check.

Note: If you already have a Broadband service enabled on this line and you want to switch service providers, you will need to contact both your current provider and your new provider to get your service changed over new and existing service provider to have this service transferred.

BT Retail won't place orders for speeds that are on the checker as 15Mbps and below, however if you call them you can ask for their 'Option 3 with Fibre' product which bypasses this and you will probably get in the region of 20-30Mbps as the checker understates things very much.

However, I'd not go with BT, they are ridiculous with traffic shaping and their support is awful.

Might be better looking at these (in no particular order):

Aquiss
Plusnet
ADSL24

They all have contacts on these forums, Martin from Aquiss, Dave from Plusnet and James from ADSL24. They can place manual orders and I believe they don't traffic shape and on their business packages the traffic is a little less contended.

http://adsl24.co.uk
http://aquiss.net
http://plusnet.com

Let me know how it goes on.

Jack

I've heard loads of horror stories on here about plusnet, have they improved over the past few years?

ADSL24 look good.

Edited by wrtpeeps (Fri 20-May-11 23:27:30)

Plusnet have got better on traffice shaping, if that helps.

they do have a list of throttling on their website

Edited by thomaswarne01 (Sat 06-Aug-11 23:27:05)