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Area Going Live Soon (SO19 - Sholing) - Having Doubts

I gave up in the end, ended up signing up with VM Essential Plus, on rolling contract, 54 down 5 up, till toob can sort the issue out here, well depending if im staying here or eventually move in with gf, even so toob not there, can get hyperoptic 🤷‍♂️
 
I gave up in the end, ended up signing up with VM Essential Plus, on rolling contract, 54 down 5 up, till toob can sort the issue out here, well depending if im staying here or eventually move in with gf, even so toob not there, can get hyperoptic 🤷‍♂️
Did they give you any time frame? Whole of Sholing is now almost live. Frustrating they can’t resolve these small localised issues
 

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Yeah another 6 months LOL
Jesus.. Openreach will be round before then getting rid of the copper. 5 out of 16 houses have Toob in my close now, so OR are definitely losing connections, won’t be long before they overbuild the area with their inferior GPON.
 
Jesus.. Openreach will be round before then getting rid of the copper. 5 out of 16 houses have Toob in my close now, so OR are definitely losing connections, won’t be long before they overbuild the area with their inferior GPON.
Doubt OR do anything with the phoneline were i am, can only get ADSL2+ lol
 
Wow, that is a good takeup for Toob, in the first Month.
It’s 6 out of 16 now, Toob installing another one this morning. It’s a ripe area for it, no Virgin Media, although we have FTTC and g.fast available the former is slow and the later is expensive with very few ISP options. Suspect they will hit 60-80% take up once people get to end of existing contracts.
 
Had a Toob door knocker today. Apparently another 4-6 weeks wait. My telegraph pole has a coil of fibre hung half way up it, awaiting the jointers and a connection box to be fitted to the top of the pole. Might be Christmas when they finally get to me...
 
Some fibre guys turned up yesterday to my nearest pole and added a fibre splitter to the end of the coil of fibre left half way up the pole. Feels like they're pulling their finger out around Sholing to finish the area.

Guess the chap with the cherry picker will be next to get the splitter box to the top of the pole.
 
Some fibre guys turned up yesterday to my nearest pole and added a fibre splitter to the end of the coil of fibre left half way up the pole. Feels like they're pulling their finger out around Sholing to finish the area.

Guess the chap with the cherry picker will be next to get the splitter box to the top of the pole.

That’s a good sign, the poles in the surrounding streets here went live within a month of that happening, I remember seeing the red barriers around the poles for a week or two before they positioned them.

Also the guy that did my install said overhead installs are very quick at the moment, like phone up and get next day install. Underground has a bit more of a wait.
 
The fibre guys were out Monday afternoon just gone with the cherry picker putting the splitter box up the top of the pole. Nothing seen since then out side. Today an email saying ready to order! Toob map still says "In Build". Absolutely shocked at that turnaround. Didn't think the splitter box they'd put in was even lit up yet. So I've ordered and it's due to be installed MONDAY!
Party time indeed! 🥳
 
The fibre guys were out Monday afternoon just gone with the cherry picker putting the splitter box up the top of the pole. Nothing seen since then out side. Today an email saying ready to order! Toob map still says "In Build". Absolutely shocked at that turnaround. Didn't think the splitter box they'd put in was even lit up yet. So I've ordered and it's due to be installed MONDAY!
Party time indeed! 🥳
Awesome, if you want an earlier install remember to check online or give them a call. Although Monday is a great turnaround, if you haven’t done so already think about where you want the ONT and Router positioned and most importantly, what you plan on downloading or uploading with your new found bandwidth.
 
Decided to go with 25x16 mini trunking to where the ONT & router needs to be. Quite central and next to my BT master socket. Had planned for kopex under the floor but couldn't get a cable rod past some obstacles. Going for 25x16 along skirting behind furniture as it has spare space for other cables in the future. All the holes will be drilled and trunking in situ before Monday so the engineer will have the easiest of jobs to do! Tea or freshly brewed espresso also awaits.

After its all done, I'll keep the BT line as backup for a bit but look at migrating the phone POTS service to VoIP before BT insist on migrating to their DV product.

As for what to use the bandwidth on... Simply working from home with a fast upload speed will be revolutionary. Uploading gigabytes of data onto the cloud or company servers isn't fun with 18-19mbit upload speed.
 
So the Toob man has been. I'm the first to order on this distribution pole. He gets up the pole on the cherry picker and has found the pole hasn't been lit up yet! My suspicions were correct! As there's still a blue rope at the bottom of the pole, I think the fibre is under the capping on the pole but not yet pulled through to the junction box in the road that feeds it.

Regardless, he has put the fibre in for me, ONT on the wall etc. He was very happy as the 10mm holes were pre-drilled and mini trunking all laid out the whole route.

Toob office then called me and say it could be a few days to a couple of weeks, depending where the issue is, and likely then needing someone else to pop in to provision the ONT.

Bit of a disappointment in their infrastructure team not correctly signing something off without testing it first. Hey ho!
 
How frustrating for you, at least the ground work is done so once they light up the pole your ONT will get a PON signal. Hopefully the delay won’t be too long.
 
Well they've booked another engineer visit to provision the ONT. Can't see that being much use given the PON light is still red. They seem convinced the pole issue is resolved. We shall see!
 
Well I'm connected! That was a right song and dance.

So Tuesday the ONT PON light was red most of the day until later in the afternoon when it turned green. That happened whilst Toob were working on the local fibre cabinet - no coincidence there!

Was told by the office on Monday that someone was booked to reattend Wednesday (today) 0800-1000 but nobody showed up. Called the office and it seems there was a cockup at their end. They did finally get an engineer out that afternoon to provision the ONT onto the network. Apparently it can't be done remotely, needs to be in the property to do it. Chap told me it was all working full speed. Didn't test it there and then as he said the router would reboot itself shortly after a software upgrade. It did that and picked up the static IP address.

Doing some tests this afternoon however, and it seems the download speed is not exactly at the advertised speed. 700-800 down and 940 up, testing on Ethernet connection to an i7-4770k PC (Running Linux, Chrome browser). Tried a few different speed test sites, all reporting similar or worse numbers. I'll try again tonight past midnight to see if it's local congestion. Somehow doubt it as I know my mums Toob connection in Woolston is is always 900+/900+ and never lower. Starting to wonder if it's a dirty optical connection or a bad splice out in the cabinet.
 
Glad they have you online and it’s sorted, have you tried plugging in directly to the ONT and see what you get speed wise? Do you have any security/firewall switched on inspecting packets? That can slow things down on the download now you’re in hyper space. 😄
 
And success! Found the issue. My PC has two 1000BaseT connections. One socket on the motherboard and the other is an Intel gigabit PCI card. I was using the PCI card - switched to the onboard NIC and I'm now getting the full speeds! My gut feeling is that it might be a linux driver issue. Amazing how a gigabit connection starts to show up all the other flaws in your own network as well as others. My work laptop VPN for example!

Anyway... to quote Kryten, "Smug mode, ON!"
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