Thinking about upgrading to FTTP questions

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@Dan_the_Van wrote:

@Wildroverandy 

It’s not a priority exchange, and seems to have no problems. Max speed is showing as 330/50 (so no point paying for the 900 service then).

Is this    what you are referring to?

You should looking for 

They are not the same product.

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Yes, but it was the WBC FTTP showing up to 330.

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Well, don't take my word for it - screen shot of the data for my phone number 🙂

[#3]

It's not a question of not believing you, those speeds are associated with FFTP on Demand as well, just checking.

Dan.

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Fair enough.

What's not fair, is that PlusNet seem willing to charge me for a 900Mbps service, even though I can't get it here (yet?).

Cheers.

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@Wildroverandy 

The restriction is due to the equipment originally installed at the OR end. I believe OR are working to upgrade the old equipment and bring 1000 down to all areas.

Brian

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@Wildroverandy 

That's just the website - hopefully if you tried to order it the system would reject the attempt.

From what you said previously all you need is Full Fibre 78 - you would get speeds around 76/77, better resliance and lower "ping" times if you're into gaming.

Brian

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@bmc wrote:

@Wildroverandy 

As mentioned, it must show WBC FTTP in the results window (it'll probably show FTTP on Demand as well).

One final mention on equipment. Your router must have a WAN port as you connect via Ethernet cable. As it's ethernet you can move the bits and pieces anywhere you want it you're happy to run Ethernet cable.

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Hmm, yes, the BT Hub 6 I have doesn't have an Ethernet WAN port, so that wouldn't be usable then. But, I could plug Ethernet straight into the Mesh box (that's setup for PPoE, along with my Plusnet broadband login details, and OpenDNS settings, and handles all the DHCP, etc.)

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@bmc wrote:

@Wildroverandy 

That's just the website - hopefully if you tried to order it the system would reject the attempt.

From what you said previously all you need is Full Fibre 78 - you would get speeds around 76/77, better resliance and lower "ping" times if you're into gaming.

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You'd hope they'd reject the order wouldn't you, but they're not exactly good historically there (but then who is!). I do seem to be finding more sites than ever are suffering with lack of attention to detail, when it comes to the processes involved in ordering, or managing things.

I'm not into gaming, mostly movie/TV streaming, and photo/iCloud storage (most of the bottleneck there is with the iCloud system anyway, so a faster broadband probably wouldn't help). The 72Mbps I currently get does what I need, so yes, the FF78 would be all I'd need.

Thank you.

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@Wildroverandy 

If you are interested in upgrading why not ring the Customer Options Team on 0800 013 2632 and ask? This number is normally answered quite quickly. It costs nothing to ask.

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If you decide to upgrade to a speed beyond 330mbps, let me know as I'd be interested to see what happens as well.  

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@Gandalf wrote:

If you decide to upgrade to a speed beyond 330mbps, let me know as I'd be interested to see what happens as well.  

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Hi Anoush,

It’s unlikely I’ll be doing that, I’d be looking at saving a little monthly fee, so I’d be sticking at the 78Mbps service for now.

I was just curious, that’s all :-).

Cheers.

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@Baldrick1 wrote:

@Wildroverandy 

If you are interested in upgrading why not ring the Customer Options Team on 0800 013 2632 and ask? This number is normally answered quite quickly. It costs nothing to ask.

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I’m just having a think about the options right now, and I can just click a button on my account page when I’m ready (I don’t really want someone offering me a deal of the day that I can’t accept).

I think II have all my answers now, just need to consider it all.

Cheers.

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Cool. No worries.

Cheers

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@Wildroverandy 

One last point. You might well get a marginal increase in your upload speed. Like download, FTTP gives near the advertised rate.

I say marginal because based on your current download speed you won't be far short of the 20 up anyway.

Brian

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@bmc wrote:

@Wildroverandy 

One last point. You might well get a marginal increase in your upload speed. Like download, FTTP gives near the advertised rate.

I say marginal because based on your current download speed you won't be far short of the 20 up anyway.

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Indeed so, I’m getting near to 19 on the up stream. It does seem pretty stable here too, I can regularly get 72/19 anytime I try a test, sometimes it can hit 75 down stream.

I do see the comments about poor speed after the upgrade, which is why I’m reluctant to change anything (if it’s not broke!). Of course I know about YMMV and all that 😏

cheers.