In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Hush man. We’re on about getting Adrian to turn. He’s nearly there…🤩🤣

Nah I am not, got another letter from Zzoomm today, offering me six months free, very strange since last week they said on their face book page that it was the last week to get six months free.
I noticed today while on the way back from work that Zzoomm have been digging around their large cabinet, which is pretty close to the exchange. I doubt they would be digging to put more fibre in, so very strange.

As i have said before I am not going to do anything until after March, as that is when the prices increase and then I will look at my options.

Anyway, things seems fine again this evening, I will check to see if streaming is ok later after I had some food. Chatting to someone at work who live not that far away from me, and they have had the same problem, but they are with Sky, so it is very strange

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

As i have said before I am not going to do anything until after March, as that is when the prices increase and then I will look at my options.

Yeah that makes sense as you avoid the 10% hike in prices. Hopefully things settle this year

There is an article on ISPr about Openreach limiting FTTC speeds to 2mb/s in trial areas and blocking outgoing calls to get people to switch. I think it's outrageous but you may be next Adrian. Linky

That is not a fair summary of what the trial is proposing

In reply to a post by Taras:

Yeah that makes sense as you avoid the 10% hike in prices. Hopefully things settle this year

My contact is up in June, so only a couple of months at paying any extra costs if I have to and then decide if I am going to stay with Plusnet as I am or go elsewhere if someone gives me a better offer. Now broadband seems to be a good price at the moment, but that could change in the next few months.

Zzoomm must be getting desperate, looking at the letter they sent me, they are now saying that my house may increase in value if I connect to their network. Makes no odds to me if it does as i rent it
5x more reliable than my existing connection, they can't even say that as they have no idea how reliable my connection is and until this slowdown over the last few days it has been reliable. Also, looking at the Zzoomm Facebook page, it doesn't seem that reliable to me.
38 times faster than the UK average, that could be true
Excellent customer service, again looking at their facebook page, I beg to differ. I realise that people will use media like Facebook to complain that people will say they are getting a good service, but there are a lot of complaints

I can't see myself going to FTTP to be honest, I really have no need to.

In reply to a post by jpm:

That is not a fair summary of what the trial is proposing

The Article or my summary just to be clear?

In reply to a post by Banger:

There is an article on ISPr about Openreach limiting FTTC speeds to 2mb/s in trial areas and blocking outgoing calls to get people to switch. I think it's outrageous but you may be next Adrian. Linky

Yes I have seen it and I think it is disgraceful and does prove the point that Openreach have more control over the network than we are led to believe and also proves that this one person I know who was saying that his FTTC connection seems to have slowed down since they had FTTP laid in the street may be correct.

I am not in a stop sell area and from what I have heard and read, they are not touching people with a 40/10 FTTc for some reason. As for digital voice, They can do what they want with my voice service, I don't use it anyway, until today there have not been a phone plugged in it for over a year. I only plugged a phone in today on advice on here to check the phone line noise. There is a strange buzzing sound, i thought maybe that was the phone, but it is just a handset, nothing special.

In reply to a post by jpm:

That is not a fair summary of what the trial is proposing

Really? so pushing people's broadband speed to 2Mb./s is good is it? People still pay for that service, and they should expect the service they pay for, if Openreach want people to change to FTTP, then they need to get providers to get rid of the 24 months contract for a start and not to put the prices up for doing so.

Your summary. Firstly it's a trial so if the feedback is poor then it won't go any further, but also it's going to be a last resort action before a customer loses their connection.

The alternative would be for people's service to disappear one day and they have to join a (probably fairly long due to lots of people being in the same boat) queue to get a new service provisioned.

If someone's ISP hasn't done anything proactive to migrate customers away from services that are being removed, and there's three months until the deadline, what alternative do you propose?

If someone is just browsing the internet and not doing speedtests will they even notice the speed reduction. Blocking outgoing calls is a bit OTT.