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Broadband connection in Stafford.
- Thread starter kilmaccumsey
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staffordjas
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We've had FTTP since last August where I live in Worcester. Ours so far (hope I've not jinxed it now) has been working fine.
But other parts of the estates (by sons, so luckily he's not changed to it yet ) and lots of other areas in Worcester have lost FTTP connections totally for the past 3 days and still ongoing . Apparently City Fibre , installing it on behalf of lots of providers , have hit problems doing emergency repair work & have f**cked it all up , and taking longer than expected to get everyone back.
We've still got the old box inside to hopefully connect the modem to use the good old fashioned connection if it happens to us (City Fibre installer advised to keep it to revert back if needed) .
But other parts of the estates (by sons, so luckily he's not changed to it yet ) and lots of other areas in Worcester have lost FTTP connections totally for the past 3 days and still ongoing . Apparently City Fibre , installing it on behalf of lots of providers , have hit problems doing emergency repair work & have f**cked it all up , and taking longer than expected to get everyone back.
We've still got the old box inside to hopefully connect the modem to use the good old fashioned connection if it happens to us (City Fibre installer advised to keep it to revert back if needed) .
Jonah
Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
It’s FTTP which stands for Fibre To The Property.
Basically it’s fast broadband through a fibre optic cable all the way from the exchange to your home.
DoggedWalker
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Anyone spoken to a BT engineer at any of the cabinets to find out a rough roll out date? They were pretty much spot on back when they did the FTTC upgrades and I asked.
Cue
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Cabinet and exchange work in April, presumably related
kilmaccumsey
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anyone have a bad connection ST16 area we are with Virgin and its been pretty bad for a few weeks now
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Cable or via phone line?
kilmaccumsey
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cable
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
I'm in st16 and not noticed anything, but my solar panels missed a chunk of uploaded data yesterday afternoon when I was out
Tumble weed
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Stafford's just been upgraded and Shell and Sky services have now gone live offering up to a gig broadband speeds.
Good to have some competition with Virgin finally.
Good to have some competition with Virgin finally.
kilmaccumsey
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interesting
Tumble weed
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I hoped that's what they were doing when they were digging up all round town.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Sky want 58 quid a month though!
Tumble weed
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I'm paying £57 for "200" for Virgin ATM, I'll probably switch to Sky , £24/48 for 500 , or their £38 for 145.
I'll see if Virgin will budge on their prices first though.
Cue
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Not everywhere it seems, Kingston hill doesn’t have any yet, nor Tixall Road
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tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
I pay £23 for 300
kilmaccumsey
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Who with we tried to get virgin to budge but no way we pay £63
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Virgin!
