Fibre upgrade process

[#1]

I am mystified by the fibre upgrade process. I got an email about a week ago saying my product change was complete. I understand from other posts here that this is an auto email sent out by the Plusnet systems. However, I haven't received any info at all about delivery of the hub, what wiring is required, and whether an engineer will need to visit to check out the installation. The communication around the upgrade seems vague to say the least. Can anyone enlighten me?

[#2]

I'm just looking into this for you.

[edit]

It looks like your account has changed over early as the upgrade won't complete until the 27th

It's all external so no engineer has to visit your property.

[#3]

Thanks for that. Have literally just received email confirming hub delivery - was that a coincidence? Still no word on wiring/engineer visit though. How will I know what to plug the hub into? I assume it is not the standard phone line used for ADSL.

[#4]

That was me ordering it for you

It goes into the same socket as your current router.

[#5]

Thanks. So can you just confirm that the new hub plugs into the same telephone line splitter that my current router uses? I was expecting that some other form of cabling might be needed.

[#6]

Hi  

To follow on from Matthew's posts, the engineer only does work at the cabinet(green box) as the service you are receiving is Fibre to the Cabinet(FTTC), the Fibre cables connect to the cabinet and from there the normal copper cabling connects to your home, hence the use of your normal socket and filter..

You can start using the Hub One as soon as you receive it however as it will work on both types of service  

[#7]

OK that's great. Can you direct me to where I can get info on what sort of hub I will be getting? For example, how many LAN ports it has? Thanks.

[#8 · Accepted solution]

I don't have a link with information however I have played around with them a fair bit  

The "Hub One" is similar to a BT HomeHub 5, it has 2.4Ghz and 5GHz WiFi ranges and 4 Gb ethernet LAN ports on the rear, if you want to know anything more about it, just pop a reply here and I'll get back to you asap

[#9]

Perfect. Thanks for all your help guys. One final remark - it would be great if this sort of info was actually sent to fibre upgraders as a matter of course (apologies if it was and I missed it). From a customer point of view, it is a very mysterious process. Looking forward to faster internet though!

[#10]

Hello, I'm not sure if i should start a new topic for this but i may have the same problem.

I upgraded from adsl broadband to fibre last week and had an email saying "your broadband product change is now complete". It has been a week since but i'm still on an adsl connection, just wondering if anyone could help me with this?

[#11]

@Firion You do have the same problem but your upgrade should complete fully on Monday.

[#12]

That's fantastic, thanks for the prompt reply!

[#13]

I have the same problem a email saying my upgrade was complete but still on adsl  speeds even through a wired connection on the new hub sent to me,so wondering if its not completed yet please help as a newbie to fibre  

[#14]

Well I am just a customer but the process seems to consist of:

1. Change the account over to fibre so Plusnet get their money 😉

2. Despatch the new hub if needed

3. Get the customer to set up the hub using ADSL

4. Someone does something clever outside your property to switch over to fibre to the cabinet 

It's only at step 4 that you would see an improvement in speed. The problem is that the communication is poor so that you get an email at stage 1 saying your product change is complete. You then get a vague email at stage 2 to say that your hub should arrive in 3-5 days time. The actual date of stage 4 hasn't yet been made clear to me. 

I think you must be at stage 3. It would be great if Plusnet could communicate all this early on so we knew what to expect.

Any, or all, of the above may be completely wrong buy, hey, I'm just the schmuck paying the bill.

[#15]

Yes In a different thread I was told I would go live tomorrow but they have been charging me for fibre since the 6th July ... Go figure!! And it's all open reaches fault apparently 😜