I guess I'll follow and add my review.
I first heard about Hyperoptic from our developments web site, so contacted Hyperoptic to ensure they were also looking at our building, as we don't have a concierge like the others, so thought they may miss us off as they have no interest in our building. I was told they would hope it was going to be included but would need to look into it.
I live in a new build development however Openreach installed Exchange Only lines, so ADSL2+ was the only solution. I was getting about 8Mbit/s download speeds from Be and no chance of getting Infinity as we weren�t fed by a street cab. Poplar exchange is also severely congested and it�s hard to get on some LLU products due to this.
Hyperoptic starting taking orders at the beginning of March. I offered to become a �champion� which means encouraging people to sign up in my building. I was told I�d get flyers to help but nothing ever arrived. I made my own. I put up posters on all floors and flyers through everyone�s letter boxes. Despite asking for people to sign up using my username, only one person did. I can see at least 5 other Hyperoptic SSIDs from my PC, so hopefully there was a good take up in this building. I did notice other buildings had flyers in the foyer and advertising from Hyperopic to encourage sign ups.
There was some delay in getting the fibre into the building and there were a few emails giving up updates. The sub contractors came in and installed cat5e cabling throughout the building, installing inspection hatches in the corridors and leaving enough cabling in the ceiling void to feed the flats at a later stage. Appointments were then made to patch the cabling into each flat. I don�t have a power socket near my front door so they put in a master socket and drilled a hole for me to poke a cable through into my living room. I then patched from the hall cupboard into my living room where the router now lives.
After what seemed like ages, with the cable taunting me every time I passed it with faster speeds I couldn�t yet use, there was an email saying it was going live in July. I rushed home on the Sat to pick up the router - the Hyperhub, which I quickly powered on and connected my PC. I tested a few sites and they all responded very quickly and download speeds are very good. I�ve not found any sites that can download at 1Gbps yet, and most speedtesters don�t give reliable results either, but speeds are very fast.
My biggest complaint about the hyperhub is there�s only one 1 gig lan port. I have now added another switch to ensure I have faster throughput on the LAN.
I've had a few support issues. All have been dealt with quite well and when I've had to get a new router it�s been dealt with quickly. That said, if you need to, you can connect the Ethernet cable directly to your PC and miss out the router if needed, whilst you wait for a fix.
VOIP call quality is as good as my fixed line. I guess it helps that you can connect your normal phone direct to the router so no poor quality headsets here. You get free evening and weekend calls as standard (UK landline and interestingly also 0845 and 0870). £12.50 is a lot for VOIP line rental I think, though you do get caller ID included.
Very happy, and as it�s the only viable product out there at the moment it�s this or back to ADSL2+ speeds. I know Hyperoptic are in the middle of connecting up more buildings round here so hopefully they will continue to grow and maybe add more innovative products to their portfolio.
I've posted a few traceroutes and speed tests in other posts, but if there�s any questions, post away.
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