landlines and fibre

[bruncher]

we've signed up for fibre to the property broadband. The provider tells me that the landline will continue via the old wire, which I was surprised to hear.

Please can someone throw light on this, perhaps say what their own experience has been when moving from ADSL to fibre. Thanks!

[supremetwo]

we've signed up for fibre to the property broadband. The provider tells me that the landline will continue via the old wire, which I was surprised to hear.

Please can someone throw light on this, perhaps say what their own experience has been when moving from ADSL to fibre. Thanks!

Within the property?
If so the old internal phone wires will be used connected via a new fibre modem.

http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/deta ... ibre-modem

Are you certain that it's fibre to the property rather than fibre to the nearest cabinet?

[bruncher]

Yes FTP. Thing is we have a dog's breakfast of internal wiring in the house and the old phone line comes into the house via a 1st floor bedroom window ledge. If they put a new cable into the house I expect they will go ground floor. Maybe I should cancel the order. What we have does work apart from occasional drop off.

[Infrasonic]

Who's the supplier of this FTP?

[bruncher]

It will be Openreach, but we are Zen customers.

[Infrasonic]

Most of their domestic installs are FTTC ( as alluded to by S2), there's a thing called G Fast whereby they extend the fibre from the street cabinet nearer to the premises and then install another mini cabinet which is then tailed into the existing copper, which helps keep the bandwidth up.
Actual full on FTTP is still pretty expensive I thought, is this a domestic or commercial install?

Any idea which actual one you are getting?

[Watis]

I'm with Zen too, and my ADSL connection is about to be upgraded to FTTC.

There will be no change to the copper from the cabinet to my property and Zen have confirmed that I do not need to be at home on the day and there is no requirement to access my property but just to make sure my router is connected.

If you're unsure, contact Zen support. One of the advantages of using Zen is that you'll get prompt, helpful support.

Watis

[ReformedCharacter]

we've signed up for fibre to the property broadband. The provider tells me that the landline will continue via the old wire, which I was surprised to hear.

Please can someone throw light on this, perhaps say what their own experience has been when moving from ADSL to fibre. Thanks!

I have BT's FTTP, my phone line remains unchanged as per your advice.

RC

[bruncher]

Thanks RC. Do you notice a difference in the broadband speed and reliability?

[Infrasonic]

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2 ... dband.html

Telecoms operator Openreach (BT) has today revealed the next batch of 11 areas that will benefit from their roll-out of 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP infrastructure in 2019, which should cover 3 million UK homes and businesses by the end of 2020. Plus 3,000 extra engineers will be added.

[ReformedCharacter]

Thanks RC. Do you notice a difference in the broadband speed and reliability?

Yes, it's brilliant! I think we've had about 2 very short outages in 3 years. The speed (78Mbps) is absolutely consistent according to speed tests. We had about 2.5Mbps before fibre. I hope you enjoy it

RC