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Discussion topic: Upgrading Broadband - old copper wire connection

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This message was authored by: Joeha

Upgrading Broadband - old copper wire connection

Hello 

 

I don't have fibre connection into the house. 

I am looking to upgrade broadband speed as multiple people working from home is creating issues.  Currently have Sky Broadband Superfast.

 

Any quick options?

 

Thanks

 

Jitesh

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This message was authored by: TimmyBGood

Re: Upgrading Broadband - old copper wire connection

Posted by a Superuser, not a Sky employee. Find out more

@Joeha wrote:

 

Any quick options?

 


If Openreach FTTP is available at the address then ordering an Ultrafast broadband service from any Openreach ISP does the trick.

 

If there's no Openreach optical infrastructure in the area yet then that's simply not possible: their target to reach all commercially viable addresses is the end of 2026.

 

Putting the address into the BT Wholesale Availability Checker should indicate which provisioning type is applicable.

 

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

 

It's the table and the two text lines below it which are most useful.


Remove any personal information (such as the address itself) if you post an image.

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This message was authored by: Chrisee

Re: Upgrading Broadband - old copper wire connection

Posted by a Superuser, not a Sky employee. Find out more

@Joeha if you only have a copper connection in your road you will not have any other options from Sky until Openreach install the fibre cabelling you can check their plans here https://www.openreach.com/fibre-checker by entering your post code.

 

if you have mutiple people w orking you may want to look at buying a mobile broadband service which need not be prohibitively expensive. This would lighten the load on the Sky connection and provide a fall back for when the fixed line is down and vice versa. It would ge difficult to have a single connection - you would need a specialist router and good network knowledge to set that up but otherwise just attach some devices to each router.

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