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Area Going Live Soon (PO12 - Gosport) - Not anytime soon

jedsouth

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Thought I'd start a new thread for our area.
Save posting and hanging as have done for many months in the other area threads.

More Toob transit vans in our area this week.
Just had a chat with one of them. He had all the blue cables and hub out of the Toob pavement trap and was working on it inside the van, connected up to monitor.

Asked him how long for here.
He said August is looking very likely for our Go live. Expects June and July to still be doing this kind of testing and correction.
They are now testing speed and power to base for all the main runs.
So far looking good, but this last month or two is normally needed also to rectify or adjust the Contractors connection errors.
Much the same as that pole wire and pole dp connecting team a months or so said.
He mentioned its on track here, not like Eastleigh area that has hardly started yet and East Southampton, where a lot of extra build work still needs to be completed.
Sounding good for us...
 
Yeah we had Nexus come out to fix our road as the previous contractors had apparently not spliced the fibre correctly. Four vans were here for two days. Can't be certain if that's why our road was delayed for so long compared to the ones near us (by around a year) but can only assume it was.
 
A new neighbour was told over the weekend our area is still due for launch August.

Having just moved in, they did not want to take up a 12-24 month contract, so have gone with Now tv broadband, as it has a rolling 1 month contract. They manage to wangle a half price setup of £30 (normally £60).
Openreach had to install a 5c master socket as the last owner did not have any broadband and only had an old style bt socket.
Is £28 a month plus that initial £30.
Funny thing is, they moved from Fareham and did have Toob that went live a few months back. They had it on a rolling months contract for that few months as they knew they were moving.
No issues and speeds always above 900Mbps. Wifi on the supplied router was so much better than their previous router they had from Sky, the SR203.
Customer support they reported as brilliant and answer calls straight away.
 
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A few locals yesterday were telling me that the Toob promotions team on the Toob tent in Pompey were telling people over the weekend that Gosport is due to go live in August.
So its still looking good, same as customer support told me some weeks back.
Do hope so... exiting!
 
A few locals yesterday were telling me that the Toob promotions team on the Toob tent in Pompey were telling people over the weekend that Gosport is due to go live in August.
So its still looking good, same as customer support told me some weeks back.
Do hope so... exiting!
I would take it with pinch of salt tbh with what they said to me at door knocking, end of Feb but still waiting 5 months on
 
The door knockers have no clue. I can't say I blame operators like Toob when they refuse to give an estimate as you end up disappointing potential customers when the estimates are missed. The thing that wound me up most of all was the fact I wasn't renewing contract on my existing FTTC and was paying through the ass for it as I didn't want to commit. Ended up getting rid of FTTC and coasting on a pay-monthly 5G connection for about 5 months before Toob became available.
 
The other thing to consider here is what “Gosport Going Live” actually means? Toob could activate just a handful of street cabinets/poles and claim Gosport is live, and this seems to be their approach in every new area.

Southampton went live in 2019 in Ocean Village, the St Mary’s area next door to it, and very much the City Centre, is still in build almost 4 years on.

You could get lucky and be in the launch area, or you might not and face the same frustrating wait many others have endured.
 
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@Gunny
My fingers are double crossed haha! So are hundreds of locals here too...

Have you not had any more updates, if I recall right you were told it would go live for your area a few months back. Are they not giving you dates now or have they hit a local problem?
 
@Gunny
My fingers are double crossed haha! So are hundreds of locals here too...

Have you not had any more updates, if I recall right you were told it would go live for your area a few months back. Are they not giving you dates now or have they hit a local problem?

Hopefully it comes off for you, I was shocked to learn how poor broadband speed is in Gosport, Toob will be like night and day for you guys.

I don’t ask for dates anymore, I keep an eye out when walking round for Toob activity, I think all the cabinets local to me are technically complete, so hopefully not too far away, the live network is a handful of streets away now as well.
 
We have no fibre here.
Some recent Openreach meetings on their full fibre mentioned any initial build here in Gosport not starting until late 2024 and first live offerings in 2025.
But anyone in my area across mid and Southern Gosport has 50+ speeds with Openreach. It would be a rare street or property that would have less than that. I do not actually know anyone who has lower here than 50+
With most like me getting 75Mbps+, that we have had for about a decade now. I've been on Sky broadband for about 17 years, since they began the service nationally and not had any problems.
Its mostly poles in Gosport too and has always been very reliable.
Virgin covers most of Gosport, so 250Mbps to 1gb speeds through them. We were one of the first towns along with Pompey when NTL first launched in the South, many years back.
Be honest, I think many are quite happy with a 50+ offering at the moment. It runs all your home use along with streaming, Sky on demand, tv apps etc without issue. I run that and my own cctv cameras with a push online and plenty of iot kit and do not really have any problems. But, slowly we are needing more. Its the slow upload with adsl that can be a pain, but it does gets there eventually just slower.
Businesses have had good fibre offerings through Gosport via Cityfibre and Hyperoptic. Their kit in ground has been available that I have noticed across the town in pavements for a good handful of years. It is a business offering though, not for home use.
 
We have no fibre here.
Some recent Openreach meetings on their full fibre mentioned any initial build here in Gosport not starting until late 2024 and first live offerings in 2025.
But anyone in my area across mid and Southern Gosport has 50+ speeds with Openreach. It would be a rare street or property that would have less than that. I do not actually know anyone who has lower here than 50+
With most like me getting 75Mbps+, that we have had for about a decade now. I've been on Sky broadband for about 17 years, since they began the service nationally and not had any problems.
Its mostly poles in Gosport too and has always been very reliable.
Virgin covers most of Gosport, so 250Mbps to 1gb speeds through them. We were one of the first towns along with Pompey when NTL first launched in the South, many years back.
Be honest, I think many are quite happy with a 50+ offering at the moment. It runs all your home use along with streaming, Sky on demand, tv apps etc without issue. I run that and my own cctv cameras with a push online and plenty of iot kit and do not really have any problems. But, slowly we are needing more. Its the slow upload with adsl that can be a pain, but it does gets there eventually just slower.
Businesses have had good fibre offerings through Gosport via Cityfibre and Hyperoptic. Their kit in ground has been available that I have noticed across the town in pavements for a good handful of years. It is a business offering though, not for home use.

Like you say a lack of fibre, the level of deployment is on par with remote Scottish islands, definitely not acceptable for a place like Gosport.

Article here:
 
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My next door neighbour has had Virgin 500mb for about five years and had 250mb before that for much longer. They are gamers and always say they like it for playing games online. They have recently moved to 1.2gb with Virgin. Mind they did for a while moan about the 1.2gb service and hub and had many Virgin visits for a few months as the hub kept locking up, Their latest one seems to be fine now.
Assume that is fttp in some form.
But no openreach or an altnet on fttp for home users in Gosport. Mind Fareham has been much the same and has only just this year started to get Openreach fibre rollout in some parts, but have Toob pretty widespread in North and East Fareham now.
Fareham had lower speeds too on adsl across the town. I know many until quite recently that were only getting 10-15Mbps in Fareham, but a few of those are now on Toob, one got the email to sign up only last week and one is on BT fttp.

As I love my Sky Q and its mini, I do not really want to go to Virgin, even just for broadband, Sky over the years have done me proud with good deals. Even the one I'm out of contract for now, awaiting Toob.
 
My next door neighbour has had Virgin 500mb for about five years and had 250mb before that for much longer. They are gamers and always say they like it for playing games online. They have recently moved to 1.2gb with Virgin. Mind they did for a while moan about the 1.2gb service and hub and had many Virgin visits for a few months as the hub kept locking up, Their latest one seems to be fine now.
Assume that is fttp in some form.
But no openreach or an altnet on fttp for home users in Gosport. Mind Fareham has been much the same and has only just this year started to get Openreach fibre rollout in some parts, but have Toob pretty widespread in North and East Fareham now.
Fareham had lower speeds too on adsl across the town. I know many until quite recently that were only getting 10-15Mbps in Fareham, but a few of those are now on Toob, one got the email to sign up only last week and one is on BT fttp.

As I love my Sky Q and its mini, I do not really want to go to Virgin, even just for broadband, Sky over the years have done me proud with good deals. Even the one I'm out of contract for now, awaiting Toob.

No Virgin Media in my street as it was build after the initial deployment back in the 80’s, I wouldn’t go for it though as I always see people complaining about it.

Virgin media will in the future be XGS-PON, I believe they have a mix of coax from the cabinet and fibre with a conversion back to coax at the premises, with the full fibre XGS-PON only being in a few trial areas.

Coax is very capable but FTTP is the future, it’s just taken far too long for the UK to wean itself off copper.
 
Have heard no more locally on any August launch here yet.
Toob have been opening their covers and testing the blue cable bundles with connections into their Vans again here last week.

But, another local fibre contractor has last few weeks and this week been wiring up the poles with Openreach kit and their barrier signs over the OR covers show working for Openreach.
The poles have had the Openreach cbt and those white shields added to the tops of the poles and about five wires straddled between all the poles.
The top of the poles are getting very busy, with the old Openreach kit, Toob boxes and now the Openreach fibre kit.
At this rate, we may get Openreach Fibre before Toob arrives.
 
It has all gone very quiet here of late.
No more Toob work happening that I can see.

Asked Toob and they said it should be gong live very soon.
Contact us again in a few weeks for a date update. They think its just a few weeks to a month now for an announcement.
So maybe the August plan is still on.
Fingers crossed.

Noticed Brighton and Bournemouth hinging off Cityfibre came on very quickly the last month. Toob must be building up a lot of customers now.
 
It has all gone very quiet here of late.
No more Toob work happening that I can see.

Asked Toob and they said it should be gong live very soon.
Contact us again in a few weeks for a date update. They think its just a few weeks to a month now for an announcement.
So maybe the August plan is still on.
Fingers crossed.

Noticed Brighton and Bournemouth hinging off Cityfibre came on very quickly the last month. Toob must be building up a lot of customers now.

No more work is a good sign, we had that then a final flurry of testing and cabinets went live quickly after.
Hopefully your part of the build area goes live first. It’s definitely worth the wait once you get it.

The CityFibre collaboration will serve them well in the future, consolidation of Altnets is inevitable, only the strongest will survive.
 
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Oh dear.
Spoke with a few near street neighbours today.
They tell me that Openreach fibre now gone live in their streets a few days ago.
On contacting Toob for an update, were told its now at least six months away for going live here.
Not up for waiting another six months or more.
Checked with Sky and can order it too. Was not there a few days ago, I checked.
Decided to go for it and will pay £30.50 a month for the 500Mbps service on Sky with an 18 months contract. Bonus price, better than I thought.
Booked for install in two weeks.
As part of the deal can have their new wifi 6 hub too with the Max product.
Also gone with the new Sky Stream replacing my Sky Q. That works out a little less than I was paying before, bonus it got me the new Sky hub, as that apparently will not work with Sky Q.
So bye to Toob, for now. May see you in 18 months.
 
Oh dear.
Spoke with a few near street neighbours today.
They tell me that Openreach fibre now gone live in their streets a few days ago.
On contacting Toob for an update, were told its now at least six months away for going live here.
Not up for waiting another six months or more.
Checked with Sky and can order it too. Was not there a few days ago, I checked.
Decided to go for it and will pay £30.50 a month for the 500Mbps service on Sky with an 18 months contract. Bonus price, better than I thought.
Booked for install in two weeks.
As part of the deal can have their new wifi 6 hub too with the Max product.
Also gone with the new Sky Stream replacing my Sky Q. That works out a little less than I was paying before, bonus it got me the new Sky hub, as that apparently will not work with Sky Q.
So bye to Toob, for now. May see you in 18 months.
Good to have options, although I would say the 6 months thing is a standard response from Toob, I doubt it will be that long but the lottery is “will your street go live first?”.

My only gripe with Openreach is there poor upload and the fact they seem wedded to legacy GPON. XGS-PON is the way forward.
 
Yeh,
Be honest it was not just the wait, as painful as that is. In one month it will be a year since they first put flyers through our letterboxes saying coming soon.

With Sky I will get 58-60 upload on their predictions, that over the years have always been very accurate. That is three times my 20 now. Never really had any issues with uploads. That is plenty fast enough.
The download will be around 480-510, big jump from my 75 and is the necessary one to increase.
Have a 400 min guarantee download to fix or free contract cancel.

Have always been impressed with Sky service. Always easy to call, negotiate a good renewal deal, any problems rectified straight away, even when its passed onto OR they still stay in contact.

All in all its doing a compare to work out on services, costs and compromises.
I would have gone for the £8 static ip, cg-nat would probably have been ok, but I do dabble and it would probably cause some isues with my tunnel setup and homework VPNs.

Would not care so much about no landline, but would have gone with some alternative, which would have cost a fair few bucks, a voip service, the number porting (was quoted around £30-40 when I've asked recently), ata box or having to buy a few voip phones.
Whereas with Sky, I can just plug my current landline phone into the router.

Then there is the router. I said I'd look to a Google Nest 6e, but now I can just get the new Sky router, get wifi 6, parental controls, guest networks, wpa3, mesh with the great xfinity pods all included.
Plus knowing it creates a nice backhaul in the house and helps for the Sky Stream, one thing I've loved with the Q mesh and sr203.

Thinking, the saving I might even ditch my desktop, that really only saves local cctv cameras and a bit of Windows testing, that I can easily do on our laptops and look to a Nas storage thing, then I can do the port forward and control like the old days haha!
 
Yeh,
Be honest it was not just the wait, as painful as that is. In one month it will be a year since they first put flyers through our letterboxes saying coming soon.

With Sky I will get 58-60 upload on their predictions, that over the years have always been very accurate. That is three times my 20 now. Never really had any issues with uploads. That is plenty fast enough.
The download will be around 480-510, big jump from my 75 and is the necessary one to increase.
Have a 400 min guarantee download to fix or free contract cancel.

Have always been impressed with Sky service. Always easy to call, negotiate a good renewal deal, any problems rectified straight away, even when its passed onto OR they still stay in contact.

All in all its doing a compare to work out on services, costs and compromises.
I would have gone for the £8 static ip, cg-nat would probably have been ok, but I do dabble and it would probably cause some isues with my tunnel setup and homework VPNs.

Would not care so much about no landline, but would have gone with some alternative, which would have cost a fair few bucks, a voip service, the number porting (was quoted around £30-40 when I've asked recently), ata box or having to buy a few voip phones.
Whereas with Sky, I can just plug my current landline phone into the router.

Then there is the router. I said I'd look to a Google Nest 6e, but now I can just get the new Sky router, get wifi 6, parental controls, guest networks, wpa3, mesh with the great xfinity pods all included.
Plus knowing it creates a nice backhaul in the house and helps for the Sky Stream, one thing I've loved with the Q mesh and sr203.

Thinking, the saving I might even ditch my desktop, that really only saves local cctv cameras and a bit of Windows testing, that I can easily do on our laptops and look to a Nas storage thing, then I can do the port forward and control like the old days haha!

All makes sense, and I think just shows it’s great to have a choice, allows the consumer to pick what is right for them. Openreach FTTC will become fairly universal by 2026 which is helpful when moving house etc, that will be my dilemma when the 18 month contract is up, I’ll likely be thinking about moving house, chances of having Toob where I move to will be slim.
 
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