In reply to a post by Malwaremike:

https://i.postimg.cc/c4v7G2CT/FTTC-cable.jpg

The inner cable can readily follow your intended path, the outer cable cannot. Our new fibre runs 30m over a road to our gable wall. The OR techie showed me the cable is 2.5mm diameter white plastic with a woven Kevlar layer covered in heavy black plastic which is stripped off for internal use.

He said the 'full' cable is 6mm wide and very easy to kink so he installed a big loop where the cable runs from the suspension eyebolt through the gable wall and roofspace where the outer layer is stripped off to leave the flexible inner cable to drop behind the door, along the skirting and into the box as shown. Hope this helps.

That Fibre running down by the door looks like it been pinched when they attached it to the wall.

Looking at the ones that have fibre here, the ones that have Openreach the fibre seems to follow the copper cable, Zzoomm don't seem to as the fibre seems to separate away from the copper cable as it gets closer to the house. My next door neighbour that has openreach the fibre enters into what would be the hallway, not much of a hallway. where it enters would be an electric meter. I know fibre is not affected by interference, but still seems to be a silly place for fibre to enter.

As I have said, i still don't know what to do, I will probably see what Plusnet can do for FTTC and if they can't give me a decent price I will go for now broadband

In reply to a post by Kr1s69:

Lol you sound like a child.

Almost all providers are doing the exact same thing with contract lengths and inflationary rises.

It’s the regulator that should be getting the brunt of these complaints.

This is the problem, well for me anyway, I was on a 24 month contract with the wireless network I used and for the first 12 months it was great, then things started to go downhill, but I was stuck in a contract, the last 6 months was not great as they could not cope with the demand, I would have got a slightly faster speed by going back to ADSL, and it would have been cheaper. I have had a few 18 months contracts with plusnet, I would certainly not do a 24 month one

In reply to a post by Malwaremike:

Just for interest Max, what lucky ISP has your business now? Glad you are happy with them.

he uses a mobile network.

I don’t like long contracts either, I just find the language max used rather childish.

I’m hoping virgin media or FTTP will come to my area soon so I looked at short contracts - I could have paid £60 to move to Now at a reasonable monthly cost (30 day term) or moved somewhere free but end up overpaying each month.

In the end I stayed with Plusnet on a 12 month deal.

There are very few FTTP providers that use the Openreach network that have short contracts, I have no idea about virgin.

I almost ordered Zzoomm today, went through everything from picking the service, putting my bank details in, but bottled out when they asked me to choose my installation date. I wonder if I will have letter from them like I did when I just did a query

I’d happily take a long contract on FTTP but wanted to avoid a long contract on FTTC and end up locked in when something better comes along

According to ISP preview, Plusnet have dropped their prices for FTTP again, but only for new customers and it seems only from the links that ISPpreview provides.
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2023/04/isp-pl...

But still 24 month contract, the prices are good, but also don't forget that you will get two years of price increases and if inflation don't drop the increase will be pretty high.

I thought if they are doing that, maybe they will drop the price for current customers. they have a bit, but ZZoomm is still cheaper and a more advanced network.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

According to ISP preview, Plusnet have dropped their prices for FTTP again, but only for new customers and it seems only from the links that ISPpreview provides.
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2023/04/isp-pl...

This is untrue. If I do an FTTP availability check on Plusnet today, *without* going via the affiliate links, I get exactly the same prices. Even in an incognito window.

Unfortunately, they closed the comments, so it's not possible to point this out.

I wonder whether they did this intentionally to gain some kickback revenue, which I'm very disappointed in - normally this is a trustworthy site.

The next time I renew my Plusnet contract I must remember to ask them if I can switch to FTTP if it becomes available.

In reply to a post by candlerb:

This is untrue. If I do an FTTP availability check on Plusnet today, *without* going via the affiliate links, I get exactly the same prices. Even in an incognito window.

Unfortunately, they closed the comments, so it's not possible to point this out.

I wonder whether they did this intentionally to gain some kickback revenue, which I'm very disappointed in - normally this is a trustworthy site.

You are right, I just did it and yes the prices are the same with or without the links.
You can contact Mark who wrote the article, here is a linkto the contacts page.

In one way, I don't blame them for trying to get some more revenue,