In reply to a post by troublegum:

You’re right enough I suppose. We can activate the WiFi hotspot on our iPhones, and we do have reasonable speeds on 4G with generous data amounts (I get discounted rates on EE as well).

There is the slight complication that the wife’s work provided PC which connects via WiFi is allegedly locked to the current SSID for security purposes. When she set it up the IT helpdesk helped her connect it and said it would be unable to connect to any other SSID.

But I suppose they could assist her with changing it temporarily if the situation arose.

(Edit: I just remembered your "allegedly". Just test that first! )

Do a test now. Change the announced SSID on a phone (set to provide a hotspot) to that on the router, with a different password to the wifi on the router. See if that works for your wife.

Or you could set the SSID and wifi password on the hotspot to identical to the router and manually select on the PC which to access at any given time. This was often done when using an old router connected to the main one by ethernet, to provide wider wifi coverage on the premises, with connected devices switching seamlessly to the stronger signal.

That would be better if it works, as normally the phone will not be set to tether so won't be broadcasting the SSID.

If should also work if they have managed to set up the PC to prevent you selecting which of the two devices is offering that SSID. Just test by turning off the router for a few minutes.

Edited by pluralist (Sun 05-Dec-21 23:33:38)

And after 2025? Will Openreach still be supplying SOGEA?

SOGEA falls out of scope of the WLR withdrawl.

Openreach will still be supplying SOGEA beyond 2025, probably well beyond 2025. Even where an exchange area hits the 75% trigger threshold of FTTP enabled properties, if that is the only service available to a particular property (or for that matter SOGFAST or SOTAP) then they will continue to provide it until an alternative is available at that address.

Thanks. I thought I'd seen something, but wasn't sure.

What backup arrangements have you made for power cuts, which IME is a more likely event?

Using a mobile phone as a wifi hotspot can work quite well so long as you have a good mobile phone signal.

Have you considered upgrading your Bt employee benefit instead ?

For an extra £5 a month you can get the hybrid connect 4g add on , and also the complete WiFi disc ( halo 3+ )- so if the fttp goes down you will switch to 4g - although this would require you to use the BT smart hub if your not already using it .

john83

There is a list published that says there are 135+ on Stop sell as at Oct 2021 an that is going up to 455 by August 2022 ( Means they are in the 12 months notice period for the additional ones) 4 have been removed from the original list. that was 459 long.

In reply to a post by kitcat:

There is a list published

Oh, I'm on the list. Still "no plans for FTTP so I'll just stand out in the rain then.

The list says "CE Fibre Cities - Glasgow", what does "CE" stand for?

I know I posted the list last night, 2 posts after the 1 you replied to. I'm unable to edit my original post.

Currently 134 FTTP priority exchange stop sells and 1 WLR.

There was 1 FTTP Priority exchange in June and 14 at the start of October. I hadn't been keeping up with all the dates.

Edited by j0hn83 (Mon 06-Dec-21 17:37:59)

In reply to a post by Michael_Chare:

What backup arrangements have you made for power cuts, which IME is a more likely event?

Using a mobile phone as a wifi hotspot can work quite well so long as you have a good mobile phone signal.

I definitely don't have a contingency plan for a power cut. I don't suppose the wife's work is so critical, that an outage of a few hours of electricity would be a major problem.

I am probably overthinking the whole thing. Using the phone as a wifi hotspot would be a much better way of doing things, instead of wasting money on a second line that may never get used. And given that she has 150GB of data and used nowhere near this, then it's definitely the way to go.

The PC does seem to be locked to one SSID but no doubt a call to the IT Helpdesk would resolve this.