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Hello, I live in central London and could really (really, really) do with access to fibre broadband. Where I live (1km from the King's Cross Exchange) is seemingly a fibre blackspot.
Virgin have no plans to come here, because too hard.
Openreach doesn't seem to plan to come here either, despite Silicon Roundabout being about 1 mile away.
It's a business expense, so does anyone know if I have any non-mainstream options, and how much it might cost?
The BT router is in danger of impacting hard against a wall at the moment...
Thanks.
That's interesting, thank you. According my layman reading of it, I'm stuffed.
I've written to my MP (Emily Thornberry) in a likely futile act of frustration.
It says fttc available in some areas.. Not yours then I take it?
Was about to say fibre to the cabinet.
Yeah - seems where I live is deemed not to be digital enough by Openreach, so no dice in the forseeable future. I asked them about being shifted to a different cabinet, which caused the Openreach lady I was speaking with on the phone to piss herself laughing.
Seems the option might be to put up with it or move...
If no fibre, LLU is your next best bet. LLU uses the telco's own equipment, every other DSL offering is just BT Wholesale rebadged so your service would be exactly the same as it is now.
Out of that lot, I'd suggest Zen unless you have / want Sky TV. (I moved from Zen to Sky a few years ago, they were excellent but couldn't compete on price.)
Mains Plug in dlink 4g router?
I got 41mbps down and 23 up in hexam of all places recently so you should be good in central London.
Sim deals need pricing up but maybe a solution unless you’re transferring massive amounts of data.
Perhaps one of the optical fibre into the premises providers that have sprung up in London, the likes of Hyperoptic?
I got 41mbps down and 23 up in hexam of all places recently so you should be good in central London.
Means nothing. You can be surrounded by fibre, and if your street or property wasn't plumbed in by the builders you're screwed as they won't come in unless it's worth it which it conveniently won't be.
Er I was talking about 4g via a sim router
We've been using a TP-Link 4G router for the last two years. Got a good deal from EE, 50GB for £25 a month and it's been great, except that it's limited. There aren't any unlimited 4G data only SIM deals. We'll probably be moving to fibre so that we can go unlimited but if you can live with limited 4G is an option.
If it's a business line Vodafone or colt will sort you out. Bare in mind it will be seriously expensive compared to consumer options.
Thinking that a 4G line in addition to our crappy bb might be the way to go. Thanks for some top suggestions.