Upload Speed not as Advertised.

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@ItsAdam wrote:

Yeah and PlusNet still advertises a settling in period for broadband which is irrelevent to Full Fibre.

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Yes, but not for the Full Fibre product .

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@jab1 it was my understanding that BT have stopped selling copper services.

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I think that could be  slightly wrong - there are areas of the UK which can currently not access FTTP over the BTOR infrastructure, so they will still have to be provisioned somehow for broadband either via SoGEA , or they move to a non-OR dependent service, i.e an altnet, if one is available to them.

In either case, they lose the traditional 'landline'  

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@ItsAdam all I can get is broadband by copper. We have buried armour cable and no ducting what so ever in the pavement. OR engineer who was surveying the area informed me that our road is down for upgrade 2030 at the earliest. They will do all the 'quick wins' first, street with ducting.

Edit Jab1 beat me to it.

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@ItsAdam wrote:

it was my understanding that BT have stopped selling copper services.

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BT have stopped selling copper services if FTTP is available, but in other areas they still sell SOGEA FTTC over copper - and they are in fact one of the few ISPs that sell SOADSL in areas like mine that don't have OR FTTP or FTTC available.

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@mystreet1 wrote:
@ItsAdam all I can get is broadband by copper. We have buried armour cable and no ducting what so ever in the pavement. OR engineer who was surveying the area informed me that our road is down for upgrade 2030 at the earliest. They will do all the 'quick wins' first, street with ducting.

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Just a small point: You are correct about the OR "quick wins first" approach to fibre but, based on observations in my area, the easiest and quickest who were first were those homes still supplied via telephone poles.

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Logical when you think about it - all they need to do is run the Fibre cable from the nearest chamber, following the copper route.

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@pvmb  @jab1 Yeah I was giga confused myself when they were using the telegraph poles still. Considering the nature of fibre and its lack of real bendyness, I'd have thought running it over the roof and in my case, weaved between tree branches would be an issue.

But yeah just recycled the old copper ducting to push fibre up to the post and then spread it out from there. 

Considering they had to get a cherry picker to run the cable and chop down some branches, would have been just as quick to dig up a bit of turf and run a cable properly but /shrug  cheapest route wins I guess.