Hi,
I'm looking for some advice to do with moving house and i guess primarily fibre installation.
At the start of this year I suddenly found out my current exchange and cabinet got enabled for fibre and was the first one to sign up on my cabinet. However about a month later it was decided we're going to move house. This has created a bit of an issue for me because wherever we move to I don't want to lose these wonderful new faster speeds I'm getting.
The problem is the kind of places we're looking at to buy always seem to have the worst estimated fibre speeds when using the BT DSL checker website. Some exchanges aren't even enabled for fibre or ADSL+2.
So why am i here making this post?
Well what I was wondering is if anyone could tell me if there are any options available to me to have a faster line installed wherever i might move to. This way it wouldn't matter where i moved to i could just pay to have a super fast line installed.
The internet is important to me and since this is the last house I'll likely be moving to or at least the house i'll be spending the next 20 years in i want to make sure i can get a decent fast line going to it.
The kind of questions i have are if I can have BT install a pure fibre line up to any house I pick even if it costs like £5000?
Or more importantly if I did have a pure fibre line installed but it was a long distance away from the exchange/cabinet would I see any real benefit in the speeds I get because of the distance?
I've also heard about something called Fibre on demand which seems to be linked to FTTP. I got rather excited when i saw a couple of exchanges i was looking at come up as FTTP enabled that could reach speeds of 330mps. However after attempting to actually look up FTTP to buy no one seems to actually do it, least not on a mainstream consumer level.
Does anyone know how i might go about getting FTTP on demand? And if i did and the current FTTC download speed was reported as being in the low 20mbps range would FTTP give much of an improvement? Specifically would I see speeds in the low 300's or would i still be lucky to get anything above 30?
One off installation costs of a few grand wouldn't be a deterrent for me right now. What would matter are high monthly costs there afterwards.
When dealing with house prices and seeing one house for £110,000 and another for £130,000, both equally viable in terms of the houses themselves, if I could spend £10,000 on making the broadband work at 330mbps I'd look at it as a saving of £20,000 while getting the £110,000 house I want and good broadband. The main issue i have with this is not knowing if it's possible to commission BT or 'someone' to do this kind of thing, hence why I'm here. I fear the answers probably no but i figured it was worth making sure just in case.
I'm sure some people will read all this and think i'm nuts and you're probably right but I've lived with the internet since the mid 90's. I spent £80 a month on my mother's phone bill with dial up, was the first to take up 512kbps cable in my town when it was activated, had 4 bonded ADSL lines giving 8mpbs download speeds when 2mbps was at the cutting edge of consumer broadband and once again was the first one on my cabinet to get fibre.
If i had to chose between having water going to the house or broadband I'd have to seriously think about it for a couple of days, choose the water and then regret it 1 week later while having a bath and watching a white circle going round and round on my tablet as I try to watch a YouTube video.
Broadband matters to me and I see it as only becoming more important as time goes on making me want to make sure wherever i move to isn't screwed because of distance and the exchange still running on decade old technology.
Any help/ideas appreciated. (And I don't mean men in white coats kind of help either!)
