Home broadband installation that doesn’t involve Openreach

[Walter Sobchak]

I’ve had a nightmare trying to get Sky Broadband installed, had my installation date set for today and called and left instructions with Sky to make a note to knock on my neighbours door for her to let them in etc, which they said they’d put on the system.
Fast forward to today and come home from a sorry we missed you note and called them up to sort out and was told I’d have to wait another 5 weeks before someone else can come and install again, so I told them to cancel the order, the problem being everyone seems to rely on Openreach for fibre installs and other supplilers have similar wait times.

I’ve already had no broadband for 3 weeks since my Three hub contract ended and I cancelled because signal was rubbish in my new home.

Are there any broadband providers that still go off the normal phone line?, don’t have any tv or ability to do invoicing etc for work unless using a mobile hotspot at the moment, which isn’t great either.

[Scrump]

Openreach also throw the switches for internet over normal phone lines.

[Walter Sobchak]

Balls

[GlenMH]

Would a Vodafone gigacube work for you? We ran a small office of 5 people from one of those with no issues as we had no phone lines at all...

[boxst]

You can check if there is Virgin cable, and for some reason https://www.trooli.com are also installing in quite a lot of places.

(for some reason: because the areas I've seen them cable up already have FTTP, so to me its just a duplicate infrastructure)

[8bit]

Can you get City Fibre in your area?

https://cityfibre.com/

[jeremyc]

Also check availability of Community Fibre.

They have their own FTTP infrastructure (though round my way they are piggy-backing on Openreach poles and ducts), and I've just switched to them and am very pleased. Stonking performance at a very reasonable price.

[8bit]

Actually yeah, for that matter also check https://gigaclear.com/ for availability.