Hoorah! FTTC has finally arrived at my cabinet and orders are now being accepted. After all the tulipe I've had to put up with from ISP's and BT's tulipe copper infrastructure, dropped connections, slow speeds, noise of telephone line etc etc and their excuses.
Despite numerous complaints and incidents raised, they always say they cannot find any faults etc and tell me to change filters, telephone, router, extension wiring, sky boxes, face plates and, I should try using the NTE 5 test socket. Erm, Im plugged directly into the test socket with none of the above and still have issues you dullards.
I even had a 'special' Openreach engineer round who found several 'issues' on the BT side of the NTE 5 and BT still tried to charge me £200! Complained to the ISP who queried it with BT and the charge was quietly dropped.
Enough is enough and switching to FTTC should hopefully resolve most of the issues if not all and have the benefit of delivering faster speeds than sub 7 meg I get now.
Curiously, BT say I should expect a download speed of 51+ meg on their FTTC whereas Sky state 40. Both are uncapped useage, both offer free wifi hotspots.
I was going to upgrade sky tv package at the same time via top cashback and get a nice little earner but Sky ****ed up and I had to cancel it.
So, I guess its the choice of BT or Sky FTTC only. The only real difference I can see is BT want an 18 month contract whereas Sky want 12 but insist all tv boxes are plugged into the phone line for the duration.
Anyone got experience of either, good, bad, did it meet your expectations?
Despite numerous complaints and incidents raised, they always say they cannot find any faults etc and tell me to change filters, telephone, router, extension wiring, sky boxes, face plates and, I should try using the NTE 5 test socket. Erm, Im plugged directly into the test socket with none of the above and still have issues you dullards.
I even had a 'special' Openreach engineer round who found several 'issues' on the BT side of the NTE 5 and BT still tried to charge me £200! Complained to the ISP who queried it with BT and the charge was quietly dropped.
Enough is enough and switching to FTTC should hopefully resolve most of the issues if not all and have the benefit of delivering faster speeds than sub 7 meg I get now.
Curiously, BT say I should expect a download speed of 51+ meg on their FTTC whereas Sky state 40. Both are uncapped useage, both offer free wifi hotspots.
I was going to upgrade sky tv package at the same time via top cashback and get a nice little earner but Sky ****ed up and I had to cancel it.
So, I guess its the choice of BT or Sky FTTC only. The only real difference I can see is BT want an 18 month contract whereas Sky want 12 but insist all tv boxes are plugged into the phone line for the duration.
Anyone got experience of either, good, bad, did it meet your expectations?
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