I'm with TalkTalk via tiscali that was. Seems OK (broadband speed >6Mb/s) but I'm having issues with email delivery from at least one correspondent. Sometimes he gets a "can't deliver" sort of message at his end and other times the mail is delayed by 7 hrs or more. It's mostly the one chap at the moment but I have had similar problems with others before now. I keep intending to have a moan at TalkTalk but so far haven't got around to it.
Edit:- Should have said I have Fibre to the cabinet on the street corner and copper from there to the house
With FTTC (fibre to the cabinet), the street cabinet is already connected to the exchange by fibre and they re-use your existing phone line to the house.One question. What's the point of installing fibre optic to the box on the corner then copper to the house? Why not fibre optic all the way? Seems illogical.
That unfortunately is virtually impossible unless in a Virgin area or in a block of flats etc. which has it's own network. Sky, Talk Talk & just about everybody else uses the same wires to get from the exchange to your house/premises which is supplied by Openreach. The supplier does have some control over speed by contention, I believe they lease a number of circuits from Openreach & they then decide how many people they put on each circuit, the more people the slower the connection.I would just say try to avoid anything to do with Openreach as much as you can.
With TFFC, the street cabinet is already connected to the exchange by fibre and they re-use your existing phone line to the house.
I had fibre broadband installed a couple of weeks ago and the OpenReach engineer just took a couple of hours to switch things over in the cabinet, then came to my house to fit a new face plate to the existing socket and plug in a new modem. So no-one had to go and dig up the road (or even my garden) to install my fibre broadband.
This is a good overview and explains why speeds vary: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/guide/fibre-broadband.html
Are you sure it's TFFC first time I've heard of no visitWe're with EE, and with them you don't need a engineer to the house - they send you a modem/router in a box and tell you when it's going to be changed over.
Er, yes. I was there when the upgrade call was made.Are you sure it's TFFC first time I've heard of no visit