Hi-fibre broadband ...

[TheOstrich]

... or whatever they call it. Has anyone else had experience of this being rolled out?

BT Openreach have been happily bumbling around the local estates our side of town for the last three weeks or so putting in (or replacing) underground cabling along existing "routes" from the green junction boxes to presumably some sort of central underground hub / station in each road. So there's one up our road. But this cabling isn't all the way to the house and the last 50 - 100 yards remains the old 1990's copper cabling wot we've always had.

So:
1) Will it actually speed things up or not, given the last bit remains old technology, and
2) (As someone told me over the weekend) do BT charge you an eyewatering sum if you then ask them to run it up to the house?

Anybody know?

[Workingman]

Fibre to the cabinet was rolled out over most of the country ages ago and that is what many of us are on. Speeds are upwards of 25Mbs because of that last few metres of copper, but as the backbone is now fibre then overall it is faster and no more expensive. For the majority who read news sites or watch the odd YouTube video or iPlayer its fine and about £25 per month - it's way faster than you can read or type.

If you are a gamer or dedicated streamer then fibre comes in many 'flavours' from, say, 60Mbs all the way up to Gigabit speeds and you pays your money - the faster it is the more you pay. Think £60 per month or more.

Is it worth it? For me it's a 'No', for others it's a 'Must Have'.

[TheOstrich]

Cheers, Frank.

I've no complaints with what I've currently got, so like you, there's no point in upgrading.

[Kaz]

Wot Frank said