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Old 05-09-2015, 20:50   #16
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Re: Fibre without line rental?

Cheers - having had a think about it yes 50mb may be OK - its going through a switch to 3 thee (adult) kids rooms and they only get 50mb speeds, I'm the only one that's actually fully wired into the router and get 152mb lol

Our plan is to ditch all services except fibre and stream with a dongle all tv services apart from freeview.

Given what just fibre costs IMO doing this may not save us as much as we think.
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Old 05-09-2015, 21:24   #17
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Re: Fibre without line rental?

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Sadly it wouldn't help you in any way.

Your line wouldn't be terminated at that cabinet it would go on to the exchange unless you ordered FTTC.

If you ordered FTTC your order would be rejected as you are too far from the cabinet to get a signal over that technology.

If Openreach deployed ADSL / ADSL 2 from cabinet it wouldn't help you either. They have to do things with power masks to avoid drowning out broadband from the exchange.

You wouldn't even get a land line now if your property were built today. If you are getting over 2Mb you won't be a priority, that's the lower limit under the universal service commitment. Your only option for faster is probably satellite.
I can understand why they would refuse to put a line in to a new build 8km from anywhere, but we do have neighbours, and all the developable land around here is within about 200 metres of the 50-pair cable that runs back to the exchange.

I did look at satellite, but usage caps, high latency and high monthly costs are putting me off. To be honest, so long as our 2Mb is stable - and it is, for now - its fast enough for our needs.

Oddly enough our community council newsletter dropped through the door yesterday. They are aware that most people around here are on EO lines and that a little extra campaigning may be required in order to make the most of the Infinity work scheduled for the exchange late next year.
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Re: Fibre without line rental?

£30.25 for 50MB, when did that go up?
It was £28 last time I looked, my son pays £26.50 for his.
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Re: Fibre without line rental?

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Sadly it wouldn't help you in any way.

Your line wouldn't be terminated at that cabinet it would go on to the exchange unless you ordered FTTC. That wouldn't help. Openreach will not change the way anyone is connected. If an EO line now, that's the way it will stay regardless, unless they change their policy which they have no intention of at present.

If you ordered FTTC your order would be rejected as you are too far from the cabinet to get a signal over that technology.

If Openreach deployed ADSL / ADSL 2 from cabinet it wouldn't help you either. They have to do things with power masks to avoid drowning out broadband from the exchange.

You wouldn't even get a land line now if your property were built today. If you are getting over 2Mb you won't be a priority, that's the lower limit under the universal service commitment. Your only option for faster is probably satellite.
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Re: Fibre without line rental?

I have seen £5 + £16 line rental being offered.
So I'll be having a chat with them when I leave (tv services) which I certainly will be doing come feb.

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Re: Fibre without line rental?

pricing and terms have been changed on that uswitch deal. details here > http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12...b-10-16-a.html
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Re: Fibre without line rental?

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£30.25 for 50MB, when did that go up?
It was £28 last time I looked, my son pays £26.50 for his.
I pay £25 for my 152mbits
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I pay £25 for my 152mbits
£25 for only BB ?
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Old 14-09-2015, 19:41   #24
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Re: Fibre without line rental?

not standalone, we have got phone and tv as well so cumulatively it all comes to a lot more. We went for it a few years ago when 100mbits first came out because they specifically advertised the package as 100mbits (XXL) as only being £25 when taken with bla bla. Obviously there have been a few £1.75 price increases (or whatever it is) on the package since then but it is there or there abouts.
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Re: Fibre without line rental?

We were on £30 for 100meg (now 152meg) however the price went up £10 within the space of two months. So i guess we're basically paying the standard price according to the Virgin website again.
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Re: Fibre without line rental?

I downgraded from Big Kahuna and 152 mb BB with phone with evening / weekend calls to basic phone and 50mb BB.
I am now paying £19-50 a month for this and only use the phone at the weekends. They wanted £25 for 50 mb BB only. Was cheaper to take the phone as well.

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