Carole
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- I'm on the edge of town and get 3.5.
Quiz your neighbours and see if better things are possible....
We had ours tested by BT and it's 0.9
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- I'm on the edge of town and get 3.5.
Quiz your neighbours and see if better things are possible....
Hi
Gramaisc has answered your main points.
However the cabinet serves a reasonable area. With FTTC your distance from that cabinet (rather than the exchange) is important.
The one in Derrington you can (hopefully) see in this google street view picture:-
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.7...m4!1e1!3m2!1sCqX8SyLA7lKfuo0Fw82qkA!2e0?hl=en
FTTC is Fibre To The Cabinet. There is also FTTP which is Fibre To The Property. This is far faster, but not common (not sure it is available anywhere in Stafford, other than as a Virgin connection).
A quick browse around suggests Bednall does have FTTC available, but far from certain on that. Be worth sticking your postcode in one of the broadband availability checkers.
All the best
Keith
So youre that bloke then.What can BT offer you on fibre? I was on the 60Mb package and its costing me less for fibre at around 75/15 speeds. The upstream was the deal clincher for me, I have a dozen media boxes spread around town that stream from me!
Hi Keith
You seem to know more than some of us about this
Where are you searching to find out which properties/areas have FTTC and FTTP
If a cabinet has been updated but the cables to it from the exchange have not what effect does this have?
Ta
So youre that bloke then.
Not sure anywhere around here has FTTP. For FTTC they seem to install a new cabinet, so if there is an FTTC cabinet then it should have been cabled to the exchange. FTTC is Fibre To The Cabinet, hence if the cables have not been done it isn't FTTC.
All the best
Keith
We had ours tested by BT and it's 0.9
Not sure anywhere around here has FTTP. For FTTC they seem to install a new cabinet, so if there is an FTTC cabinet then it should have been cabled to the exchange. FTTC is Fibre To The Cabinet, hence if the cables have not been done it isn't FTTC.
All the best
Keith
So
If I spot a green box and it doesnt have the new poster stuck on the side of it do I presume it is still not updated?
We had ours tested by BT and it's 0.9
I am with Virgin and have their Superhub 3. Its Wi-Fi is useless. I have put it into Modem mode and attached a TP-Link Deco mesh network. Best thing you can do as all the Wi-Fi routers supplied by companies are terrible.Sky
Been with them for years, without an issue then one day without me asking they sent me a new router and it’s been downhill ever since. Super slow, keeps cutting out, we’ve had two engineers countless hours troubleshooting. Since September.
The best option they can now come up with is that I pay an extra £5 a month, comint to another 18 month contract and only then will they provide me with the service I’m already paying for.
I literally could not believe what I was hearing. Is this what customer service looks like in 2023?
Best thing was, when I asked to raise it as a complaint, basically just because I wanted to talk to someone with an ounce of common sense, I was told my ‘enquiry’ doesn’t meet the compliant criteria.
My new broadband provider is taking over the service in the next 7-10 days and as soon as we’re out of contract on the telly I’ll be telling Sky exactly where they can stick that too!
Just as virgin up their prices massively too!