I dropped first my AAISP broadband in favour of an unlimited everything SIM mid-December 2018. Relying on my phone as hotspot for all other devices. Before Jan 2019 I dropped the BT (retail/consumer) landline as well. Saving £69pm as the SIM was £22pm.

Stayed with that until installing security cams online to the cloud a few years later, so needed a mobile broadband router to maintain that connection.

The mobile broadband has in the last 12 months started to become congested although the phone is fine. Probably down to the mast now providing 5G service on the A6 but unreliably here.

Awaiting brsk going live to remedy that. Ordered back in October and final wiring up of the estate has restarted. The first batch used existing telegraph poles but a few areas are underground or too far from existing poles to daisy-chain.so brsk installed extra ones this year.

500Mbps symmetrical. £25pm fixed for 24 months down from "Price list" £33. Latest leaflets at the same £33 but at £30pm. I'll possibly keep the mobile broadband as a fall-back but go PAYG on it for use when required.

Been on to TTB and they have booked an other engineer for tomorrow. Notes said job not complete.

There is a very strong possibility that the previous task is marked incomplete, is because it has been ‘furthered’ to a different team … in this case the dig team.

Also TTB did another line test and it came back as underground fault. Me VDSL is now playing up, has been steady SNR through the fault but now its all over the place.

Failing pair won’t fix itself, it may have periods of relative stability, but its rubbish capabilities will show themselves sooner or later.

Keep the updates coming please

In reply to a post by pluralist:

I'll possibly keep the mobile broadband as a fall-back but go PAYG on it for use when required.

Best off luck with '3' - It was quite an ordeal to cease my 3g pay monthly mobile broadband last year. The supplied free dongle/sim (which I've had for several years) only worked on '3' 3g and they tried almost endlessly to upgrade me to 4/5g just before 3g was shut down in my area. In order to cease I had to "chat", for some reason, with retentions enduring and refusing ever degreasing "special" contract price offers until the cease was eventually activated. Even after that it was a month or so before I received an incomprehensible final bill.

All I needed was a mobile backup for FTTP broadband for which 3g was fine at £5 per month just for emails etc. Their hardware plus a new contract was out of the question and they simply would not supply a replacement 4/5g dongle and allow me stay on pay monthly.

Anyway Aquiss FTTP is super reliable but it would reassuring to have some form of inexpensive broadband backup.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

Failing pair won’t fix itself, it may have periods of relative stability, but its rubbish capabilities will show themselves sooner or later.

Keep the updates coming please

Has been dropping every 2 hours so far tonight. SNR down is up to 6db and DS speed is 45mbps which is usually 65mbps. Upstream is usually around 10mbps and is a 9mbps. Fingers crossed dig team turns up tomorrow.

Wouldn't care the elec board had the very same area pavement up to replace cable. Maybe same problem a few months ago.

I just remembered some issues you had when you migrated from uno to TTB https://forums.thinkbroadband.com/general/4662929-my... near to the point where you close the thread you mention "a piece of old drop wire from the BT66 to master socket" was that ever replaced?

In reply to a post by 4M2:

I just remembered some issues you had when you migrated from uno to TTB https://forums.thinkbroadband.com/general/4662929-my... near to the point where you close the thread you mention "a piece of old drop wire from the BT66 to master socket" was that ever replaced?

No that has never been replaced because it is awkward. eg. through a wall, I was promised a follow up visit to replace it which never happened and I never chased it.

Probably OK because only the other day an engineer connected a new NTE5 to it...the digging gang possibly don't have that little cable replacement job on their "work to be done list" !

If it is the civils gang, they don’t stuff like that. I’m hoping that the engineer who proved the fault to the buried UG checked this.
I did mention earlier about dissing and testing the line at the 66 to prove the fault in or out … and this is Bob basic practise