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

Openreach’s build map is interesting, Portsmouth and Southampton completely missing from any future build plans. Toob and Cityfibre have the head start here, the other areas they will face tough competition.
 

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For Portsmouth, as well as Cityfibre (which Toob in Pompey is hanging off along with some other altnet ISPs) and like Gosport, Portsmouth has had NTL through to Virgin, Cable for decades and both are on their fastest tier now.
Portsmouth also has had a lot of business fibre 1gb+ for a good decade too.
Like Gosport, the dsl has generally been around the 40-80 mark for sometime in Pompey, its rare to find any street with a low connection 10-30 dsl.

By the way for me, the Openreach fibre postcode checker still says 'Build planned between now and Dec-2026'. That is the one you can register, I did, so far no email, hopeless, seeming as I've ordered.
Speaking with people all over my Town, looks like a lot of the Town went live this week and is now available to order too.
Most of Fareham and Stubbington have had full OR fibre available for at least a year and Fareham live with a little bit of Toob in the North and North East. Still a lot of work going on there for Toob, that has been going on since beginning of last year.
 
Had my Sky Stream arrive today in one box and the Sky Max in another delivery.
Very quick.
Stream is all setup and working. Very different to Sky Q. Setup was a bit troublesome for both the streams, but all fine now.
The Sky Max is up too, router really pushes out a strong signal and the pod is great, connected on wifi so far.
Now to wait until next week for the Sky fibre to test its faster speeds. I rescheduled the fibre and got it for next Friday.
 
Oh dear.
Sky Stream is terrible. Going back. So buggy. Hate the attempt at cloud recording. Menus are all over the place.
I'm back on Sky Q, so have to use old sr203 router.
New Max router was ok. Odd you use it with both Mysky app and through a browser.
Did not know there is no port forwarding with it. Sky said may come back at a later date.
The Max signal was very strong, only needed one pod.
Sky said will work with Sky Q later this year, so get it back then.

Had my Openreach grey box put on outside wall yesterday. Planned my indoor cable run with that engineer for when they install the ONT tomorrow.
Will run ethernet from my router to the ONT, saves running the long fibre cable all down hallway. My ONT will be at front of house now, keep my router in middle where it is now.

All quiet round here with Toob still.
 
So they say.
Where its showing on their map is not that populated an area and was not the first areas it was installed, like around my area for coming up to a year now.
I've put in my postcode in and nothing, not that I'm a potential customer anymore.

Be honest, most I know who were waiting for Toob in Gosport and Fareham have gone for the Openreach fttp now. That is widespread live across Gosport now.
I'm loving my Sky Ultrafast+ and the Sky voip landline calls are very clear.

In someways I'm glad, as was not really up for paying £8 for a fixed ip, certainly do not want cg-nat and would have to had pay extra for some kind of voip. So it actually works out more than the £30.50 I am paying for my Sky fttp.
Plus, lately hearing a few I know in Fareham that have Toob have had downtime with Toob and it takes many days and calls to get it back up and running. One I know has given up and got a free pass to leave, now back with BT using the OR fttp.
Shame, as it all sounded so good at one stage.
 
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Just had email to say can now order Toob.
Their map is not showing that that though, but the postcode checker does.
Oh, too late. I am now on Sky Ultrafast +

So their Aug live date they were saying for sometime for us was quite accurate, but the last month they have been saying another six months.

The other couple of houses closeby on my pole that were looking for Toob have also gone with Sky and vodafone via OR 500Mbps service.

Its been three weeks now on my fibre, I'm getting constant 530Mbps and 72 upload, with a ping of 2-3ms. Great for £30.50 for 18 months along with using my old landline phones plugged into the router via Sky VOIP.
 
Had mine installed a week ago, cancelled VM gig1 finally, been on VM since 2002 since 128K cable came out.

Was on £64 a month with Vm, so glad to see the back end of those rip off merchants. toob has been superb so far from customer service to the equipment and performance itself. Just waiting for the £100 Amazon voucher to arrive now.

Openreach full fibre is in build for my postcode and won't be finished until December 2026 they say, and the 1Gbps plan with them only has a 220Mb upload, so no match for toob's speed and price lol.
 
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