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Fibre Upgrade Let Down
21-09-2015 4:57 PM
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Backstory
I moved into a house on a new build where Fibre wasn't available as it was running off a new cabinet but would be available soon. Great, placed order with Plusnet as had always been very happy with the service in the past and have recommend lots of people.
ADSL was installed eventually (story for another day, but mostly open reach issues) and have since been checking for the day I can get fibre, a few weeks ago it was listed so went to place an upgrade through the portal.
Upgrade Process
I tried to place an order online but was only given the 40/1.9 product which isn't ideal as I do a lot of home working and need as much up speed as possible. When I originally signed up 40/10 was available which would of been ok but I really wanted 80/20 so gave customer services a call. After a bit of a wait got through to someone who very helpfully explained why 80/20 wasn't available but said if I went for 40/1.9 I could move to extra on the day of install and I would get a higher upload speed but based on the BT wholesale results I shouldn't expect a higher down speed as 40 was pretty much the max.
Install Day
The engineer turned up on time and completed the install without a hitch. Then I called customer services as advised to place the upgrade.
When I spoke to someone they advised this wasn't possible, and offered compensation. They were very helpful and polite, (I hope I was too) but I asked it could be escalated as I want to know what my options are now.
Is it possible the BT Wholesale results are incorrect? If I put my address in rather than CLI it gives 60-40 down / 17-12 up.
I really don't want to leave plus net (which may not be an option as still have a term on the ADSL contract even if I could get out of the Fibre) but if the only way to get the up speeds my line is capable of might have to.
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21-09-2015 5:05 PM
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21-09-2015 5:39 PM
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High Low High Low
FTTC Range A (Clean) 55.3 35.7 13.9 8.3
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21-09-2015 5:47 PM
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21-09-2015 6:24 PM
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Are there any disadvantages to moving to the business vs residential?
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21-09-2015 8:03 PM
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jelv (a.k.a Spoon Whittler) Why I have left Plusnet (warning: long post!) Broadband: Andrews & Arnold Home::1 (FTTC 80/20) Line rental: Pulse 8 Home Line Rental (£14.40/month) Mobile: iD mobile (£4/month) |
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21-09-2015 8:36 PM
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Worried that it's not an official product and someone might notice and re configure, really thinking about the business option, does anyone know how smooth the process would be to migrate? Cost wise its not much more, and could potentially get higher speeds as it would run off sync rather than product.
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22-09-2015 12:46 PM
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Quote Downstream Speed 47.0 Mbps
Upstream Speed 10.4 Mbps
I should be able to get you onto Fibre Extra if you like. It's a Plusnet limitation, I've explained it a little more in depth here:
https://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,140551.msg1251113.html#msg1251113
Feel free to pop me a PM.
Matty
Re: Fibre Upgrade Let Down
22-09-2015 12:57 PM
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Quote from: jonathana13 After another call I managed to get the upload speed increased, BUT not sure how long it will last.
Worried that it's not an official product and someone might notice and re configure, really thinking about the business option, does anyone know how smooth the process would be to migrate? Cost wise its not much more, and could potentially get higher speeds as it would run off sync rather than product.
You've noted that the business prices exclude VAT
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22-09-2015 1:26 PM
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Quote from: jonathana13 Worried that it's not an official product
If MattyC gets you on Fibre Extra then you have no worries about unofficial products, you'll be on 'up to 76/19 or 80/20 depending on how you describe it', limited by the distance from your cabinet and resulting sync speed, just beware if you decide to change product in the future to save money if you choose the 'up to 40' type of product then you'll be back to 2mb/s up.
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Re: Fibre Upgrade Let Down
22-09-2015 7:37 PM
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Thanks again!
Jonathan
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22-09-2015 7:41 PM
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23-09-2015 7:31 PM
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Jonathan
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23-09-2015 7:39 PM
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Thanks
Jon
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23-09-2015 8:25 PM
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I think following Matty's suggestion to leave things to settle is best for the moment.
David
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