FTTP install

[FairyLiquid7]

A few years ago I had FTTP installed to my old place (two streets away) through open reach by plusnet, is their anyone at sky who I can talk to to see about the same.....the cabinet is FTTP capable but no FTTP is available for most of the town?

[Highlinder]

@FairyLiquid7  Could you fill out the form in the link below and post a screenshot, but make sure hiding the private information in the top-left corner please. This will help us tell you what is going on.

https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL/AddressHome 

[Chrisee]

@FairyLiquid7 Sky like Plusnet, EE etc use the Openreach network who are installing full fibre around the country. Sky have no control of which addresses are covered. The link @Highlinder gave will tell the current position for your address but this one should tell you if full fibre is planned for your address see https://www.openreach.com/fibre-checker

[FairyLiquid7]

Hi @Highlinder 

Many Thanks

it shows as not available from the Exchange but i know this to be incorrect as my previous address (about 100 meters away from this one) has had it about 5 years

[FairyLiquid7]

Hi @Chrisee 

Many Thanks

Already looked through both these links and it shows that its on the list for an upgrade but with no time frame, the issue is i already know it has FTTP functionality as i had it from this exchange about 6 years ago 🤷‍♂️

[Highlinder]

@FairyLiquid7  Are you able to put in the previous address and post a screenshot of that please?

[TimmyBGood]

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@FairyLiquid7 wrote:

 i know this to be incorrect as my previous address (about 100 meters away from this one) has had it about 5 years

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I'm afraid that FTTP availablity at one address is not necessarily an indication the infrastructure has reached the house next door, let alone one a few streets away.  The topology of the legacy UK telecoms network, which the national optical rollout is largely following, is not necessarily logical.

For years this town was roughly 1/3 FTTP and 2/3 FTTC, which inevitably meant some adjacent properties had hugely different connectivity.

[FairyLiquid7]

@Highlinder 

openreach give in 1800 but im sure i saw a BT deal at over 2gb, presumably due to being a bespoke line possibly trialing it through telegraph poles directly rather than under the surface via a cabinet?

@TimmyBGood 

Hi, yeah im aware of that but thats my question..is there anyone at Sky i could message/email about repeating that process (without the £10k bill) as it would spider off my house for the whole street like it did with the other property, the street i live on now has a GP's, Ambulance bay and Community Center on it so it would be benificial 🤷‍♂️

[Highlinder]

@FairyLiquid7  I was looking for something similar to what you posted in post number 4 for the previous property.

The information in the other screenshot shows that the download speed for FTTP would be 330 and and upload up to 50

[TimmyBGood]

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@Highlinder wrote:

@FairyLiquid7  

The information in the other screenshot shows that the download speed for FTTP would be 330 and and upload up to 50

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That's the legacy boilerplate for FTTPoD: it's largely nonsense because all Openreach optical fibre is capable of multi-gigabit.

[TimmyBGood · Accepted solution]

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@FairyLiquid7 wrote:

is there anyone at Sky i could message/email about repeating that process (without the £10k bill) 

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No: individual ISPs aren't permitted to interfere with the Openreach rollout.  I doubt Sky even has a process for FTTPoD as bespoke installation is now largely extinct.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2022/06/openreach-give-fttp-on-demand-broadband-a-stay-of-exec... 

[TimmyBGood]

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@FairyLiquid7 wrote:

openreach give in 1800 but im sure i saw a BT deal at over 2gb, presumably due to being a bespoke line possibly trialing it through telegraph poles directly rather than under the surface via a cabinet?

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Delivering FTTP overhead is now widespread: for domestic use it's the same speed as in-duct.  The speed limit is largely down to the supplied router: business leasedline connection at 10Gps is possible (at an enormous running cost)