Broadband

Well, unfortunately, Jiffy, if a House has a copper telephone internal terminal it won't matter how fast the fibre optic is as the copper wiring in the House will reduce it back to what it was before.

Open Reach (BT) brought in a working crew to install new Telegraph poles into my area carrying optic fibre and connected them to the old phone hubs as though that solved the problem and that we would all get "super fast" Broadband immediately.........it didn't and we don't. Unless our Houses are re-equipped with replacement optic fibre terminals then we're stuck with the slow rate. I think their priority has been to install optic fibre in areas with ducted roads first and then deal with the likes of my area later.
I believe you can get a optic fibre box installed in your House but, I understand, that will only be done if you sign up for a package contract with say, BT, Virgin, Talk Talk, and they will charge a fee for the installation. I'm with Sky regarding my Broadband, phone line, etc, and haven't got around to asking them if they can/will replace the copper terminal but, should they be able to, it will be BT Open Reach that will install it

 

They put two fibre boxes in our village two years ago. We're a mile from one of the boxes (so on copper from there) and BT promised it would speed up our internet. Unbelievably, it did.

Our download speed used to be just under 3Mbs and upload speed .7Mbs. It's now 13Mbs and 3Mbs. So considerably faster but I wouldn't pay extra for their stated high speed service. They agreed that I couldn't get any higher speed.

Last renewal they did put the charge up by £5 per month but I think it's only £18 p.m. including landline and 500 minutes p.m. landline and mobile calls.

 

Well, I'm at work in Chester at the moment, pete, so I'll check it when I'm Home tonight but I'm pretty sure it will be abysmal. It doesn't matter who is your supplier as the original basic system was laid by BT and the "Supplier" is merely using that antiquated system
I've got a top end Desk Top at Home, for work and domestic use, with a AMD Ryzen 9, 12 Core Processor 3.79 GHZ, and 64GM RAM, with all the other technical bits and bobs but that only helps with my work tasks, not with accelerating the Broadband speed.
I use Sky for TV, Landline Telephone, Broadband, and have the SKY Q Router but it's still that old copper terminal that doesn't allow that me to have that "Super Fast" Broadband speed.

 

To be honest, pete, I don't know I deliberately don't use Wi-Fi as, in my opinion, it's insecure.

Well, that's the point, pete, because the old copper cable from the optic fibre terminal to your House is the old BT old copper cable system so, in a sense, you still are using the old BT GPO system The length of the copper cabling doesn't really matter as the distance from Hub to House is usually not enough to add to the slowness of the copper system.

 

So, what you're saying is that you have optical fibre direct to your House and that you don't have a copper terminal for your phone line installed in your House?