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Monday and Tuesday night, they started connecting the poles together outside my house, installing the CBTs on top of the poles and looking at that roadworks in Mast Database - it looks like they are constructing cabinets now, so hopefully all the infrastructure will be constructed by the end of this month

Emailed them again after - their ambition of making the area live is as soon as the middle of next month - however I am not sure if it applies to the whole of Colchester or my part of Colchester (they have built not only in Lexden but in parts of Shrub End and around Layer Road - so a big chunk of south Colchester)
 
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@pjuk - got this from them at end of May...

"We have had to adjust our campaigns targeting residential areas due to the current costs of fibre rollout not being covered. Unfortunately, this affects areas that were sold under the previous campaign model."

No idea what this practically means, although the official email said...

"We are committed to bringing fibre to your area and will continue to work towards that goal, but for now, the project is delayed, and we do not have a new date for the build-out."
 
@pjuk - got this from them at end of May...

"We have had to adjust our campaigns targeting residential areas due to the current costs of fibre rollout not being covered. Unfortunately, this affects areas that were sold under the previous campaign model."

No idea what this practically means, although the official email said...

"We are committed to bringing fibre to your area and will continue to work towards that goal, but for now, the project is delayed, and we do not have a new date for the build-out."
TL;DR

Money run out.
 
Open Infra is live in Colchester (on my street) - except for my house... we had a OINF guy knock on our doors and say our street is live and to check all the boxes, but our ONT is not showing the PON light, he said that all the other houses have it live now so we're just the odd ones on their street - unlucky, but we'll wait and see...
 
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Open Infra is live in Colchester (on my street) - except for my house... we had a OINF guy knock on our doors and say our street is live and to check all the boxes, but our ONT is not showing the PON light, he said that all the other houses have it live now so we're just the odd ones on their street - unlucky, but we'll wait and see...

Will be interesting to see how long they take to resolve this "fault"
 
@pjuk - got this from them at end of May...

"We have had to adjust our campaigns targeting residential areas due to the current costs of fibre rollout not being covered. Unfortunately, this affects areas that were sold under the previous campaign model."

No idea what this practically means, although the official email said...

"We are committed to bringing fibre to your area and will continue to work towards that goal, but for now, the project is delayed, and we do not have a new date for the build-out."

Interesting, I had this from OpenInfra today, they still seem to be cracking on with bits

Our teams are presently conducting site surveys and engineering tasks to conclude the plans for the fibre infrastructure while coordinating with the appropriate authorities. Establishing new subterranean fibre optic infrastructure is a multifaceted endeavour, and the requisite permits can require some time to be finalised
 
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Found out that we’re not actually live yet on my street - no idea when but it’s good to see that half of Colchester already has it.

Colchester Fibre published this on their website recently however

We are delighted to be working with OpenInfra to bring the benefits of full-fibre gigabit (and higher speed!) broadband to some 3000 households in the Lexden area of Colchester. 1400 of these are now live and can order a service from OpenInfra if they have not signed up. Almost 500 have already signed up to receive a full-fibre connection
 
We now have Open Infra in our house - turns out they spliced it wrong and it took us 2 weeks of pestering for them to notice!

We did sign up for 900/900 but it looks like the default is 500/500 at present - we asked them about this (waiting for a response), ISP is showing as Cogent as well and not sure if it is CGNATed and I've asked for a public IP address. Time will tell on the service but first impressions are good.

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A final update to my experience:
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They bumped the speed up to 900/900 this morning and I was impressed by the speed - never had an upload speed match my download speed before and for so cheap

As I needed to do port forwarding I asked if I can be put on a public IP address - they agreed and I am not on CGNAT (on dynamic IP address). Their email support is really fast and is great compared to VM (no being on hold) although I had to wraggle with the public IP address as they are reluctant to give any out.

Has been a great experience for me even the 8 month wait - I would say its worth it.
 
Your 864 / 795 seems slightly on the low side? When I had 900/900 service from Open Infra, I was getting for example from speedtest.net (wired connection and not WiFi):

Down - 937
Up - 933
Idle latency - 4
Download latency - 12
Upload latency - 11

It was lower than the above until I realised that one of my switches couldn't keep up with the speed but once that switch was replaced with something which could handle it, I got figures like the above.
 
Your 864 / 795 seems slightly on the low side? When I had 900/900 service from Open Infra, I was getting for example from speedtest.net (wired connection and not WiFi):

Down - 937
Up - 933
Idle latency - 4
Download latency - 12
Upload latency - 11

It was lower than the above until I realised that one of my switches couldn't keep up with the speed but once that switch was replaced with something which could handle it, I got figures like the above.
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Been doing some more testing - looks like I cannot break 900mbps with the equipment that I've got - I do run Opnsense with some cheap 2.5gbe switches and a Unifi AP. I'm guessing its the overhead from the equipment.

Also interestingly the GeoIP thinks that I'm in Barnet where in fact I live 50 miles away in Essex - never had that before but not a huge issue.

Looks like no one else in my street has switched over yet so we'll wait and see if it gets worse\better.
 
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Barnet is the correct area for me so I guess it's due to your public IP being from a single block for Open Infra and that block having been noted somewhere as being in Barnet (since I believe the initial / majority so far of Open Infra installs in the UK are in Barnet).
 
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