Coming back

[#1]

My fibre broadband contract with another provider is about to end. Is it possible to switch to Plusnet's ADSL service and then upgrade to the fibre service, if so what would be the extra cost of doing this?

[#2]

Hi npr@

Please contact our sales team during their working hours on:

0800 432 0080

8am - 8pm Monday to Friday 
9am - 7pm Saturday 
9am - 6pm Sunday

They will be able to advise you on cost and what options would be best for you.

Should Fibre be available at your premises it would be best to go straight to Fibre if that is the product you would like to take.

You are however, able to upgrade to Fibre services from ADSL.

Kind Regards

[#3]

Contacted the sales team and I'm told to switch from my present supplier to Plusnets ADSL service will cost £19.99 / month + a £5 activation fee.

To then switch to Plusnet fibre will cost £34.98 / month (£10 / month more than the present offer price) with no activation fee. So if I switched after the first month it will cost me a extra £110 with no guarantee of achieving my objective of moving from a eci roadside cabinet to a huewei cabinet.

[#4]

Doesn't your current contract revert to a rolling monthly one after the expiry, be at a higher monthly cost? If so, why not just wait a month and then swap?

How do you know your fibre cabinet is going to be swapped from eci to Huawei?

[#5]

The new Hauwei fibre cabinet is already in place and is live, it's an addition not a replacement. Without some sort of intervention I'll be kept on the old ECI cabinet.

Tried BT Openreach without success.

Tried PN support when I was with them last year, they showed no interest even though I said I was willing to pay to be moved.

The reason I wish to move cabinets is my 0.5mbps upload speed. Yes I know there's no guarantee it will improve things but I'm sick of this miserable upstream speed and I'm willing to try anything within reason.

[#6]

What evidence do you have that you will be swapped to the other cabinet if your line is temporarily disconnected from the ECI one? 

[#7]

At least one other person has managed to get it done by switching back to ADSL for a short time.

[#8]

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@Baldrick1 wrote:

What evidence do you have that you will be swapped to the other cabinet if your line is temporarily disconnected from the ECI one? 

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None, other than seeing it suggested on the net. The fact that moving to adsl will get my line disconnected from the fibre cabinet, it then gives me at least a 50 - 50 chance of switching cabinets when reconnected.

[#9]

its a joke that u have to go all threw this just to try n get relocated to a cabinet closer to you there should be options to cater for this even if there was a charge ...just shows you were still not moving forward with anything ...good luck with the cabinet move fingers crossed for you m8

[#10]

I don't think it's a closer cabinet, rather it's an additional cabinet at the same location for extra capacity. And of course all new cabinets are Huawei.

[#11]

yeah which is 100x better than a eci cab .....typical bt installing cheap nasty eci cabs that dont do nothing apart from give you your sync speed ...least with Huawei cabs the technology is so future proof and advanced

[#12]

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@ejs wrote:

At least one other person has managed to get it done by switching back to ADSL for a short time.

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I'll report back whether is works for me

[#13]

It worked, now on a Huawei roadside cabinet.

DSLAM type / SW version:	BDCM:0xa48c (164.140) / v0xa48c
Modem/router firmware:  	AnnexA version - A2pv6F039v.d26a
DSL mode:               	VDSL2 Profile 17a
Status:                 	Showtime
Uptime:                 	 8 hours 44 min 2 sec
Resyncs:                	4 (since 13 Apr 2019 07:17:46)
			
				Downstream	Upstream
Line attenuation (dB):  	28.0		0.0
Signal attenuation (dB):	Not monitored		
Connection speed (kbps):	23312		1936

[#14]

What speeds u actually syncing at can't see by them stats really

[#15]

Downstream sync  23312 kbps  -- much the same as the ECI cabinet.

Upstream sync 1936 kbps -- almost 4 times faster than the ECI cabinet.

Improving my upstream sync was the main objective, G.inp should it be enabled is a bonus.