Superfast fibre broadband

There have been teams digging up the lane in Barton for superfast broadband over the past two to three years.  We have waited for connection over a similar timescale.  Earlier in the year, we actually had our connection pot installed on the road verge, after we had been missed out.  In May, we had progress when the Gigaclear fibre line was connected to the house.  On 26 May, the line was run from our connection pot on the lane, through the wall by the road, along a shallow trench in the lawn, through the house wall to a box on the sitting room wall.  Unfortunately, however, there was a blockage found 50 m down the road, so we were unable to find out how superfast our broadband might be.  Up to now, we have survived on BT’s maximum of 8 Mbs, with buffering a regular feature.

A team came on 10 June to sort the block and splice the fibre.  The story was that the block required the road being closed and dug up, as not only was the block at 50 m, there were more blocks closer to the cabinet down the road.  Many phone calls and emails later, apparently the block had been sorted, but despite assurances that splicing would be done when the block was sorted – no joy.  Further emails to senior staff elicited splicing last Saturday and with a bit of tech savvy, we were able to get connected, not by the approved route, but it all works now! 

So, what does the iPhone speed test give us now?  –

Ping = 8 milliseconds; Upload speed = 315 Mbs; download speed = 317 Mbs.

Not too shabby! 

Will keep you posted on how it goes.


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