14-10-2015, 11:07 PM
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50 meg internet
Can anyone tell me what to expect when they put this extra fast broadband on around here please?There was talk about it happening tomorrow, but how do they change it? Do they come and dig up the road, or put a new cable in my house, or is it all done from their end?
Please keep any explanation simple and idiot-proof -I don't have a technical head!
14-10-2015, 11:44 PM
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Re: 50 meg internet
My experience is dreadful. The whole street was dug up for weeks so they could lay these huge cables. Talk about the inconvenience! Whilst this was going on my internet stopped working entirely and my phone would go off for hours on end too. Progress eh - who needs it. Hey, and the upgrade was crap with nothing like the speed promised.Hope the above is helpful
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and they moved down the road a bit every day. Didn't even take that long as far as I remember - maybe a week or two.
14-10-2015, 11:50 PM
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Re: 50 meg internet
Originally Posted by Mups
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Gee thanks Mark. 
No one has been digging the road up, so I guess that means it can't be happening tomorrow then.
My son seemed to think it was all done from the their end, and the green boxes in the street. Is he wrong do you think?
. Hard to tell at times innit 
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15-10-2015, 06:24 AM
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Re: 50 meg internet
HiThey have just finished installing it here in the village, apart from a couple of 10 minute problems a day when they were doing it, everything went well, just basically pulling cables through existing ducts and then messing around with the green boxes in the street.
15-10-2015, 09:31 AM
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Re: 50 meg internet
Originally Posted by Mups
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Can anyone tell me what to expect when they put this extra fast broadband on around here please? There was talk about it happening tomorrow, but how do they change it? Do they come and dig up the road, or put a new cable in my house, or is it all done from their end?
Please keep any explanation simple and idiot-proof -I don't have a technical head!
It's very confusing for some of us to get our heads around.
My service provider (Plusnet) tells me it's not available (not far from London) but it IS available in this small town in Wales where I'm staying
I find that very odd.
15-10-2015, 09:21 PM
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Re: 50 meg internet
Ours was all done overhead, a cable about an inch thick was linked from house to house. I got a look at a cross section of the cable and there must be over a hundred different wires in it. I think a Polish company did the work and the whole area was finished in a few weeks, no one was inconvenienced during the work.We have a junction box on the side of our corner house and we get an allowance for that, it's deducted from the monthly bill.
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