Origin Broadband changing from Vodafone as backhaul supplier

Received text and email today to say that there are changes at Origin Broadband happening Friday as they migrate to a new Back Haul supplier. They are currently Vodafone but does anyone know who the new supplier will be?

Hoping this is to aid improvement to BB Speeds rather than a cost cutting exercise. I have been with them for a long time and to be fair its fine. Although I pay for 80:20 i rarely get above 50 in real word speeds. Even though i am right near exchange..

Anyway fingers crossed as changing all customers to a new supplier is gonna cause a whole heap of problems with people suddenly not having internet and not knowing how to change their login details on router!

Shouldn't need end users to change anything. This sort of change is usually done in batches over time so that problems don't swamp the helpdesk and support people.

Well it shouldn't but they have issued new login and password details to me and others for when it stops working.

My current username has "@originbbltd.vodafone.net" in it. So assume that is the reason it will stop working.

You would hope they are doing in batches but we will see.... I assume i must be in first batch as I can't find any other details of the switch happening with a google search...

In reply to a post by bounderboy:

Received text and email today to say that there are changes at Origin Broadband happening Friday as they migrate to a new Back Haul supplier. They are currently Vodafone but does anyone know who the new supplier will be?

Quite possibly TTB. We've seen a few lines come over internally showing as Origin as the losing partner on TTBs portal.

Matt

Is that talktalk business? If so are they better than Vodafone.. or is it a cost cutting exercise do you think?

It could be for many reasons but as a business we've used then Vodafone network, when it was known as Cable and Wireless Worldwide, for many years and TTB (then Opal) a similar amount of time.

There are reasons why we have not offered Vodafone LLU-based products for supply for over a year now.

Matt

Thank you - fingers crossed all is seamless..

Well the change happened at Midnight and I entered my new details and all connected up ok.

Have lost my static IP Now on dynamic which is real annoying. Had the same IP for at least 3 years. So my plex server and other stuff has stopped remotely working which is annoying.

Good news i seem to be getting 75MB/s as apposed to 30-35mb/s I used to max out at ... Though that is probably as I have network to myself at the moment with lots of people sat with no internet wondering why

Out of interest which provider have they moved you to? (I'm still on Origin/resold Voda)

Dynamic DNS works fine for me.