Oh dear. As a #Brsk customer I've been migrated to #YouFibre, but now I'm getting marketing emails for the latter saying they'll buy me out of my current contract (with them) if I switch to them.

Nice to know that they offer 200Mbit for the same price I'm currently paying for 150 though, that's probably worth looking into. Only a 12 month contract so I should be able to escape before #VirginMedia, the new owners of YouFibre, screw everything up.

#UKISP #FTTP

Finally Fibre

For those of you who have been following along on Mastodon for a while you may have noticed the saga of getting FTTP installed at home. What follows is the full story in detail, this is mainly a Cathartic out poring to help me get some closure.

A long time ago…

Work to rollout FTTP in my town started before the 2020 Pandemic lockdown, mainly because one of the Altnets had targeted the more […]

Finally getting around to upgrading my home server from Debian bookworm (12/oldstable) to trixie (13/stable).

`apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs` went smoothly enough, just a few config files with local tweaks.

Currently wishing I had FTTP for the `apt full-upgrade` downloads. I'm "languishing on only 80Mbps FTTC".

I expect to have some issues to sort out once this bit is done, and I still need to re-activate/update my third-party repositories....

#Debian #Debian13 #FTTP #FTTC

canberratimes.com.au/story/917…

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These Canberra suburbs will have faster NBN by 2030 as long-awaited upgrades begin

Construction has begun on long-awaited upgrades to improve National Broadband Network speeds for about 97,000 Canberra premises relying on older technology, due for completion by 2030.

The project being delivered across Australia by the NBN Co with a $3 billion Commonwealth equity injection has faced faced hurdles in the ACT, where backyard power poles can struggle to support the cable load required.

Finance Minister and ACT Senator Katy Gallagher said the NBN Co's consultation process was "second to none" but that "there will be some disruption".

NBN Co chief executive Ellie Sweeney said "the vast majority" of the new cables would be installed underground but "there will still be some overground cabling".

"We'll be building pits and pipes ... we're going to reuse as much as we can," Ms Sweeney told reporters in Canberra on Wednesday.

"That just goes to resilience. It goes to efficiency, and it goes to the long term nature of this investment."

She conceded that Canberra "has been a challenging build for NBN" but said: "We are absolutely committed to bringing this on time and on budget."

In some cases, there would be disruption to private property as the project progressed.

"We work really closely with local governments, with local communities, to ensure that it is a great experience," Ms Sweeney said.

Senator Gallagher said many ACT residents "have told me they struggle with slow or unreliable connections".

"Canberrans deserve fast, reliable and affordable internet, and this upgrade will make a real difference," she said.

Many Canberrans already have NBN through a fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) connection, where the existing copper phone and internet network from a nearby fibre node is used to connect their home to a box in their street.

Under the upgrades being rolled out, people with FTTN connections will be upgraded to the faster, more reliable fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP), where a fibre optic line is run from the nearest available fibre node directly to the home or business.

The upgrades will almost double the number of ACT premises able to access multi-gigabit-capable broadband, with 99 per cent of ACT suburbs expected to be upgraded.

For the remaining one or two suburbs, Ms Sweeney said "the logistics make it uneconomical, but we'll be looking at a better technology than what people are on today, which is copper".

Alternatives could be fixed wireless or a high-speed Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite service such as Amazon Leo, she said.

Asked if NBN Co saw Elon Musk's Starlink as a competitive threat, Ms Sweeney said the NBN - which haw upgraded more than a million customers to fibre - was seeing its downloads " exponentially growing."

Almost a third of Australians now demanding download speeds of 500 megabits or more, and growing, she said, and, "you can't get that speed on a Starlink."

"We think [Amazon] Leo has a place within Australia. It's great in low density environments," Ms Sweeney said.

"If you think about Australia, those remote areas, it makes a lot of sense, but fibre, globally is recognized as a superior technology. It is the fastest, it is the most scalable, so it will get you up to that multi-mix speed ... It is not impacted by line of sight, and it's not impacted by congestion."

"Once that fibre is in the ground, it's there, and it is only the electronics on either end that we need to upgrade to take those speeds even higher in the decades to come," she said.

The suburbs set to receive the upgrades are:

Virgin's left hand doesn't know what Virgin's right hand is doing... and what it is doing is sticking sharp objects up Virgin's own bum.

They had a rep at our door every other week to sell us their FTTP.

We did decide it looked like it made sense for us in the end, and in our last place we were trouble free Virgin customers for over 6 years.

Yesterday I got a call to tell me they would be at our place to do the install 13:00-18:00 this Saturday.

Then today I got this text.

I put the order in on December 17th... install now rescheduled to 17th of fucking March.

(This is must be about the 4th, maybe 5th, reschedule.)

#VirginMedia #FTTP #Fail

Wow. An #OpenReach truck just rolled up and is preparing to lay Fibre to our street.

Finally ,it seems we will have competition on pricing for #FTTP service in our area 😉🖖

#UK #Wales #BT #Ogi

5G Broadband Fail Over

https://blog.hardill.me.uk/2025/11/28/5g-broadband-fail-over/

Due to an unfortunate set of circumstances I have been left in limbo between FTTC and a FTTP install.

My FTTP install failed due to a collapsed duct and my FTTC line was ceased a few days later (an oversight led to this not being cancelled). This was then compounded by being informed it would not be possible to reconstitute the FTTC line (which later turned out not to be the case, but not […]

#4g #5g #broadband #fttc #fttp #lte