12 Jul 2024 01:20 PM
Hi all,
it's basically as the title says. Sky are offering us 60mbs download at our address. I'm more than happy to take up the offer and have our phone line with them. But we used to have sky broadband 2-3 yrs ago and the maximum download we got was 4-5mbs. It was so awful we have a EE 5g router which runs between 10mbs and 50mbs which serves our needs but does have a speed drop during the day when everyone locally is on their phones. Now I haven't seen any new cabling install and our house hasn't moved any nearer the exchange so I can't understand how this boost in wired speed would be possible.
The question is if we risk the move to wired sky broadband with their guaranteed 60mbs and it's still only 4-5mbs how easy is it to cancel the contract as they haven't fulfilled the speed guarantee?
12 Jul 2024 02:46 PM
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Unfortunately those figures indicate that no Openreach ISP can offer more than a bare handful of Mbs, presumably because your address is a significant distance from the nearest fibre infrastructure.
12 Jul 2024 01:22 PM
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Could you enter your full address below and post the table after removing your address from the image
https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL/AddressHome
12 Jul 2024 01:35 PM
12 Jul 2024 01:59 PM
12 Jul 2024 02:46 PM
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Unfortunately those figures indicate that no Openreach ISP can offer more than a bare handful of Mbs, presumably because your address is a significant distance from the nearest fibre infrastructure.
12 Jul 2024 02:48 PM
Annoyingly I'm not - about 400m from a village with full fibre 900mbs but they won't come down the road to me.
12 Jul 2024 02:50 PM - last edited: 12 Jul 2024 02:51 PM
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As the maximum speed is below the Universal Service Obligation minimum, in theory you could claim under that system.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/access-to-decent-broadband/broadband-uso-need-to-know/
12 Jul 2024 02:54 PM - last edited: 12 Jul 2024 02:55 PM
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@Scoobied64 wrote:
about 400m from a village with full fibre 900mbs but they won't come down the road to me.
That might happen later in the FTTP rollout: it depends if Openreach considers the investment required to be 'economically viable'. Ducting over that kind of distance to serve a single address almost certainly isn't, but overhead cabling might be.
The current target to get all viable addresses within reach of full fibre is the end of 2026.
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