DiggyGun
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- Mar 2, 2021
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I was with BT Broadband who then upgraded me to FTTC. This gave me improved speeds of 70mbps down and 18mbps up.
Used this for a few years but started to get many dropouts and after eight or so engineer visits, BT found the issue. This was a corroded copper cable from my house to their box in the street, they had cut it back, but now needed replacing as now too short to cut back further.
Their suggestion was for a new copper cable to our house, which would mean digging up the street, lifting my block driveway, etc.
However, over the previous months Gigaclear had been installing fibre in the town and we had their connection box in front of our house in the pavement.
Decided to go with Gigaclear as they were FTTP. Come the day of installation they put the fibre in a sleeve, buried it in the garden, one Stihl cut to a bit of concrete with a bit of touch up mortar. Twenty minutes later , job done.
This now gave me speeds of 400Mbps up and down, plus about 25% of the cost I was paying to BT.
A good result all round.
DG…
Used this for a few years but started to get many dropouts and after eight or so engineer visits, BT found the issue. This was a corroded copper cable from my house to their box in the street, they had cut it back, but now needed replacing as now too short to cut back further.
Their suggestion was for a new copper cable to our house, which would mean digging up the street, lifting my block driveway, etc.
However, over the previous months Gigaclear had been installing fibre in the town and we had their connection box in front of our house in the pavement.
Decided to go with Gigaclear as they were FTTP. Come the day of installation they put the fibre in a sleeve, buried it in the garden, one Stihl cut to a bit of concrete with a bit of touch up mortar. Twenty minutes later , job done.
This now gave me speeds of 400Mbps up and down, plus about 25% of the cost I was paying to BT.
A good result all round.
DG…
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