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After asking a few questions here, I finally had FF installed on
Thursday. Although the landline was UG cable, various garden changes
meant that the only viable route was overhead from the original pole.
The Openreach engineer was a 40 year service guy and made a really great
job, both inside and out. Lots of iced lemonade kept him hydrated for
the 4 hours plus time he took. The contacted speeds were below spec but
he advised to change the Ethernet cable to Cat6 and that did the trick.
Now on 150 Mbps for -u22 per month. To have continued with FTTC would
have been -u41. Very happy.

Regards.
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newman <aa111@despammed.com> wrote:

After asking a few questions here, I finally had FF installed on
Thursday. Although the landline was UG cable, various garden changes
meant that the only viable route was overhead from the original pole.
The Openreach engineer was a 40 year service guy and made a really great
job, both inside and out. Lots of iced lemonade kept him hydrated for
the 4 hours plus time he took. The contacted speeds were below spec but
he advised to change the Ethernet cable to Cat6 and that did the trick.
Now on 150 Mbps for u22 per month. To have continued with FTTC would
have been u41. Very happy.

Regards.

Openreach serves many ISPs, which one gives you that deal, newman?
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My pet rock Gordon just is.
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From Newsgroup: uk.telecom.broadband

Sn!pe wrote:

newman wrote:

After asking a few questions here, I finally had FF installed on
Thursday.
Now on 150 Mbps for -u22 per month. To have continued with FTTC would
have been -u41. Very happy.

Openreach serves many ISPs, which one gives you that deal, newman?

I'm hoping to be able to order FTTP in the next few weeks, those look
like plusnet prices. Visit this page but don't give it your postcode,
simply scroll down and look at the "full fibre" prices.

<https://www.uswitch.com/broadband/providers/plusnet>

My current list price for 80/20Mb FTTC is -u38.37/m, after discounts I
only pay -u26.74/m

I could splurge and pay a very similar -u26.99/m which would get me
500/75Mb, but that would increase to -u34.99/m over the course of a 2
year contract, so I expect I'll go for a lower speed to allow for the
annual price hikes, but get a noticeably higher upload speed, maybe the 300/50Mb offering?
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From Newsgroup: uk.telecom.broadband

On 29/06/2026 00:32, Sn!pe wrote:

newman <aa111@despammed.com> wrote:

After asking a few questions here, I finally had FF installed on
Thursday. Although the landline was UG cable, various garden changes
meant that the only viable route was overhead from the original pole.
The Openreach engineer was a 40 year service guy and made a really great
job, both inside and out. Lots of iced lemonade kept him hydrated for
the 4 hours plus time he took. The contacted speeds were below spec but
he advised to change the Ethernet cable to Cat6 and that did the trick.
Now on 150 Mbps for -u22 per month. To have continued with FTTC would
have been -u41. Very happy.

Regards.

Openreach serves many ISPs, which one gives you that deal, newman?

Vodafone via Moneysavingexpert referral link

Regards

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newman <aa111@despammed.com> wrote:

On 29/06/2026 00:32, Sn!pe wrote:

newman <aa111@despammed.com> wrote:

After asking a few questions here, I finally had FF installed on
Thursday. Although the landline was UG cable, various garden changes
meant that the only viable route was overhead from the original pole.
The Openreach engineer was a 40 year service guy and made a really great >> job, both inside and out. Lots of iced lemonade kept him hydrated for
the 4 hours plus time he took. The contacted speeds were below spec but
he advised to change the Ethernet cable to Cat6 and that did the trick.
Now on 150 Mbps for u22 per month. To have continued with FTTC would
have been u41. Very happy.

Regards.

Openreach serves many ISPs, which one gives you that deal, newman?

Vodafone via Moneysavingexpert referral link

Regards

I've saved this post for when FTTP becomes available here
(soon, I hope).

Thank you, newman.
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My pet rock Gordon just is.
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From Newsgroup: uk.telecom.broadband

Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:

Sn!pe wrote:

newman wrote:

After asking a few questions here, I finally had FF installed on
Thursday.
Now on 150 Mbps for u22 per month. To have continued with FTTC would
have been u41. Very happy.

Openreach serves many ISPs, which one gives you that deal, newman?

I'm hoping to be able to order FTTP in the next few weeks, those look
like plusnet prices. Visit this page but don't give it your postcode,
simply scroll down and look at the "full fibre" prices.

<https://www.uswitch.com/broadband/providers/plusnet>

My current list price for 80/20Mb FTTC is u38.37/m, after discounts I
only pay u26.74/m

I could splurge and pay a very similar u26.99/m which would get me
500/75Mb, but that would increase to u34.99/m over the course of a 2
year contract, so I expect I'll go for a lower speed to allow for the
annual price hikes, but get a noticeably higher upload speed, maybe the 300/50Mb offering?

Thanks, Andy, I'm in the same boat. I've been notified that Openreach
are in this area but they don't as yet have a date for our road.

I'll be following this thread closely in hope of finding others' reports
of their recent installation experiences.
--
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My pet rock Gordon just is.
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From Newsgroup: uk.telecom.broadband

On 2026/6/29 8:6:37, Andy Burns wrote:
[]

<https://www.uswitch.com/broadband/providers/plusnet>

My current list price for 80/20Mb FTTC is -u38.37/m, after discounts I
only pay -u26.74/m

[]
That's been one of the things that has infuriated me about PN over the
years - their "discounts". Although I _think_ my latest contract is
improved in that respect, for many years I was nominally charged an
absurdly high price, with mysterious "discounts" bringing it back to normal.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

did you hear about the guy who was frozen to absolute zero?
He was 0K ...
- Jason in alt.windows7.general (and three other 'groups), 2018-5-1
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From Newsgroup: uk.telecom.broadband

Sn!pe wrote:

Thanks, Andy, I'm in the same boat. I've been notified that Openreach
are in this area but they don't as yet have a date for our road.

Is your road on poles or ducts?

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From Newsgroup: uk.telecom.broadband

Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:

Sn!pe wrote:

Thanks, Andy, I'm in the same boat. I've been notified that Openreach
are in this area but they don't as yet have a date for our road.

Is your road on poles or ducts?

We're in a small close with one pole to serve all premises.

Our house has a disused Virgin cable duct; I wonder if Openreach
might be able to use that for the FTTP.
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My pet rock Gordon just is.
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From Newsgroup: uk.telecom.broadband

Sn!pe wrote:

We're in a small close with one pole to serve all premises.

After the openreach availability site began saying "fibre during the
next year", I kept an eye open when I was walking around the village, gradually spray-paint started appearing between the poles and manholes,
then I checked

<https://roadworks.org>

You can look a fortnight ahead by postcode, a fleet of subcontractor
vans have been here for about a month, first digging the base of each
pole and tying a bit of blue rope to each one, then pulling fibres in
and leaving it coiled-up near the top, finally a cherry-picker installed
the connector boxes at the top. I'm actually on a street with no
poles, but my old schoolmate who works for BT says we'll probably not
see roadworks booked for that.

I've started to poke postcodes for various businesses into the BT
checker and have found the first couple of poles are live as far as it
is are concerned, but the ISPs own checkers haven't yet caught-up ...


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On Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:07:33 +0100
snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote:

Our house has a disused Virgin cable duct;

Now that's a sentence to like!
--
Davey.

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