Post by HymermutPost by Julian MacasseyPost by Sn!pe[fibre]
Post by Richard RobinsonNot keen that I have to pay extra to keep my landline, either. But,
Resistance Is Futile, here comes The Future. My copper is overhead
across the backyard from a pole. I'll ask the engineer what will be done
with it, and they'll say "Dunno".
AIUI the fibre cable will reach you by the same route as your copper
connection does, i.e. like the current dropwire from the pole.
The fiber could also come in underground.
BT laid fibre up our cul-de-sac four years ago, but they never put in a
box so we can't connect to it.
One form of telecom skulduggery is you get paid to deploy
cable, take the money and run. Connecting up the punters requires
more work.
I had the same problem with Shitty Fibre. They pulled the
whole area to the demarcation points. I then fought with them
for over a year while they gave me a litany of excuses as to why
they could not connect me. On the carousel of lies to explain the
non delivery was: We need to do an engineering survey, we need to
check for asbestos, you don't have fibre in your area, (sent my
ISP a photo of my Toby box with fibre in it) this is a listed
building, You need your landlord's permission, you need to get the
city to give you permission to ask for a fibre install.
Then unexpectedly with no notice a crew showed up and
pulled fibre to every flat in the building. I talked to the crew
and they said "There's lots of politics".
Now after weekly calls for a year, I now have 1 Gbit
symetrical.
Menwhile Cell companies, ADSL suppliers and other grifters
are selling "Broadband" some of which struggls to get above 5
Gbit. These people are fraudsters. Fraud used to be a crime, it is
now a business strategy.
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The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to
fight for it. - Aneurin Bevan