Fibre

It depends on who is putting the fibre infrastructure in, there are fibre companies who install the fibre and provide the ISP services and those who install fibre for use by a selection of ISPs. Unlike the copper feed from Openreach, each fibre company install their own fibre so you could end up with more than one feed on the pole. We have Wefibre ( Telecom) installed and working, with Fibrus installing a 2nd fibre onto the pole at present ! There is usually plenty of local advertising when fibre is becoming available sometimes with early-bird deals. I pay £20 per month for "1Gbps." Worth thinking about where in the house you want the final connection box installed.

Mine from a pole planted in the middle of our hedge...

A roll of CAT5E is cheap :-)

or use your own router with built in VoIP / SIP capability. Port the phone service from the current telco / ISP and port the number to a SIP service.

It depends on who is putting the fibre infrastructure in, there are fibre companies who install the fibre and provide the ISP services and those who install fibre for use by a selection of ISPs. Unlike the copper feed from Openreach, each fibre company install their own fibre so you could end up with more than one feed on the pole. We have Wefibre ( Telecom) installed and working, with Fibrus installing a 2nd fibre onto the pole at present ! There is usually plenty of local advertising when fibre is becoming available sometimes with early-bird deals. I pay £20 per month for "1Gbps." Worth thinking about where in the house you want the final connection box installed.

I have the cable from the original install. This is a chalet bungalow so routing their cable around the soffits might work except I doubt my wife will want electronic clutter on her kitchen wall.

There seem to be several workable options from upthread posts so I think waiting to see if Plusnet have anything planned might be best.

Current connection is by their Hub 2.

I don’t think Tim Lamb lives in an area where there is hot competition for fibre customers. That might be the case in cities but not out in the sticks.

Tim

Ok. If there is a deluxe offer, it would suit me to have it run to the existing router position. I guess I could put a cable duct linked to the soffit without much effort. There is power available, existing telephone incomer, Netgear ethernet booster and router.

Indeed. This is a residential village of around 7000. Very little known commercial activity apart from high street shops.

In rural areas there's actually quite good competition for customers - Openreach can't be bothered, and so altnets want to get their fibre in the ground and have first mover advantage before Openreach gets around to doing theirs.

Usually altnets pick off areas one by one, so you may find one village has one altnet and the next has a different one. It's less likely to have two altnets sharing the same patch.

Theo

I am in a small rural town , think there was money to provide fibre to these rural locations so we now have 2 companies interdependently installing fibre here and in local villages !

The external fibre got run overhead from existing Openreach pole to House wall, alongside Openrach copper, then thin internal fibre run 18m through house and 3 walls to my router. No internal ducts just stuck to ceiling/wall corners and almost invisible.

I've just checked, the exact wording in the menu is an option titled

"I consent to Interest based Advertisements"

So not jointed at house wall. Our phone line runs through the outer cavity wall, along a convenient tie beam, through a second cavity wall and along a further beam before reaching an eaves cupboard and the outlet. Access by 2 loft hatches. Bit much for your average installer!

Yes jointed at House Wall.If the entry into the house had been at high level then joint box and duct into house would have been done by the "outside team" and fitted inside the house, as internal team do not work at heights.

Oh. So they could supply a length for the home owner to install ready for the final connection.

Oddly round here, the really rural places got FTTP supplied by openreach before the towns got it (although they all had FTTC which was not even an option here)

Probably because they could not meet the minimum service level demanded any other way. Prior to FTTP, the best speed I could get was under 2 Mbps.

A nearby town with decent FTTC is currently being wired up for FTTP by citi fibre rather than openreach.

I think they have changed their standard practice on that. When I got mine it was the fibre brought through the wall into the ONT. Now I think more are done like TNPs with a junction on the outside wall, with a separate fibre from there to the ONT.

My fibre comes to a box on the outside of the wall (at near ground level), then a short fibre through the wall to the ONT.

Thats standard practice so if the drop needs changing they can do so without entering the premises, or if the inside loop is damaged that can be changed from ground level.

Dave