Broadband in E14
Discussion
Hey folks
Have read in places that some people are able to get fibre these days, but it seems most people are stuck with regular slow connections through the Poplar exchange.
I'm at my wits end with Sky at the moment and looking to switch providers. Aside from being very slow, the router seems to be flaky and my connection drops out constantly. They don't actually offer any real technical support (you're restricted to script readers at the call centre) and now having exhausted their normal diagnostic they want to send a BT Engineer at my cost (£160) with no guarantee of a resolution.
At my previous Limehouse address I was getting 8Mbps. Prior to that, on Westferry Road I was getting between 5 and 8Mbps.
Now, back to Westferry Road and my speed varies between 1 and 3Mbps.
Are there any decent providers available from the usual crowd or do I just wait patiently until FTTC becomes available?
Have read in places that some people are able to get fibre these days, but it seems most people are stuck with regular slow connections through the Poplar exchange.
I'm at my wits end with Sky at the moment and looking to switch providers. Aside from being very slow, the router seems to be flaky and my connection drops out constantly. They don't actually offer any real technical support (you're restricted to script readers at the call centre) and now having exhausted their normal diagnostic they want to send a BT Engineer at my cost (£160) with no guarantee of a resolution.
At my previous Limehouse address I was getting 8Mbps. Prior to that, on Westferry Road I was getting between 5 and 8Mbps.
Now, back to Westferry Road and my speed varies between 1 and 3Mbps.
Are there any decent providers available from the usual crowd or do I just wait patiently until FTTC becomes available?
I live in e14 and also work in the industry.
Isle of Dogs suffers with poor broadband, mostly due to phone lines back to poplar telephone exchange being very long.
BT are rolling optical fibre to street cabinates (FTTC), which will eventually resolve this.
BT are the only network operator in the area (no Virgin Media cable) so no matter what broadband provider you go with they will be dependent on the BT rollout to some extent. They'll either be rebadging the BT fibre as their own or using BTs infrastructure to deliver using their own network equipment.
Pm me if you want more details.
Isle of Dogs suffers with poor broadband, mostly due to phone lines back to poplar telephone exchange being very long.
BT are rolling optical fibre to street cabinates (FTTC), which will eventually resolve this.
BT are the only network operator in the area (no Virgin Media cable) so no matter what broadband provider you go with they will be dependent on the BT rollout to some extent. They'll either be rebadging the BT fibre as their own or using BTs infrastructure to deliver using their own network equipment.
Pm me if you want more details.
With Virgin if the script reader can't sort it they send an engineer out within 48 hours at no charge unless you aren't in when they arrange to come, then It's £10. I've only had one major problem with them when the entire area went down for 12 hours. I changed to them because BT would go down for two weeks at a time when they managed to lose some copper cables.
JamieBeeston said:
FTTP is being rumoured now, along with some private operators looking to offer Gig Fiber to the apartment.
I registered my interest with Hyperoptic a while back, but there's not really been much progress with that, since they need co-operation of the building management to install their equipment within the building and apparently it's not been forthcoming. Even though poplar exchange is enabled for FTTC, it's not available on my line so I'm getting ~7mbps from ADSL at the moment, although often less during peak times.
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