Broadband

[Milltown Row2]

Since that last storm on Sunday night my Fibrus connection is still down and lying by the roadside less than a mile from my home.

Absolute shít show and TBH with them being so small of an outfit, kinda expected by very disappointing

Redundancies coming with them now too as well

The firm that fitted out the broadband are a Tyrone based company that Fibrus acquired to do the work, they have done the work so would obviously have to let go of staff as work is done, couldn't expect them to keep workers on to fit out when there is nothing to fit.

The problem is maintaining the lines, Johnny wouldn't be on his own after that storm a week is a long time in a house with kids and no broadband! Good luck lol

[armaghniac]

I am with Fibrus a couple of years as was tied in after they brought fibre up my road., they did did a free connection.I had no choice as BT could only offer copper. Does anyone know if they have to allow competitors to use the lines after a period, i.e. can BT offer me fibre now using Fibrus infrastructure?

What do you want from BT? Fibrus offer a phone service for a small add on. All phones will be over the Internet from the near future in any case, even if you have a copper line,

[93-DY-SAM]

I am with Fibrus a couple of years as was tied in after they brought fibre up my road., they did did a free connection.I had no choice as BT could only offer copper. Does anyone know if they have to allow competitors to use the lines after a period, i.e. can BT offer me fibre now using Fibrus infrastructure?

What do you want from BT? Fibrus offer a phone service for a small add on. All phones will be over the Internet from the near future in any case, even if you have a copper line,

The old Openreach PSTN (copper) network is scheduled to be decommissioned by the end of 2025. Most broadband providers are already forcing people to switch over to getting voice calls over their broadband if they want a phone number. Your phone plugs into the router.

Be interesting to see how this works for older people in particular who may not have a mobile and who do not have broadband.

[armaghniac]

I am with Fibrus a couple of years as was tied in after they brought fibre up my road., they did did a free connection.I had no choice as BT could only offer copper. Does anyone know if they have to allow competitors to use the lines after a period, i.e. can BT offer me fibre now using Fibrus infrastructure?

What do you want from BT? Fibrus offer a phone service for a small add on. All phones will be over the Internet from the near future in any case, even if you have a copper line,

The old Openreach PSTN (copper) network is scheduled to be decommissioned by the end of 2025. Most broadband providers are already forcing people to switch over to getting voice calls over their broadband if they want a phone number. Your phone plugs into the router.

Be interesting to see how this works for older people in particular who may not have a mobile and who do not have broadband.

I think everyone will be provided with a basic model m if they only have PSTN in order to allow the phone be plugged in However this will need power etc, so changes will be needed.

[TabClear]

I am with Fibrus a couple of years as was tied in after they brought fibre up my road., they did did a free connection.I had no choice as BT could only offer copper. Does anyone know if they have to allow competitors to use the lines after a period, i.e. can BT offer me fibre now using Fibrus infrastructure?

What do you want from BT? Fibrus offer a phone service for a small add on. All phones will be over the Internet from the near future in any case, even if you have a copper line,

Dont want anything from BT as such, certainly not a phoneline. What I mean is that that before Fibrus put fibre on my road, the BT copper line was my only option for broadband. If i decided to move from Fibrus when my contract is up, I dont know if other broadband providers can offer fibre as they would need to use Fibrus wires.

[Puckoon]

Folks - the parents are looking to sharpen up the budget a little bit and are interested in this EE internet as opposed to the BT they currently have. 49quid vs 27quid. 24 month contract with EE and they have a statement that the prices will go up every year in March by an amount equal to CPI (about 3.9%)

Any experience or red flags with the EE group? Would use it for the odd bit of streaming, general wifi around the house for the phones and maybe paying the bills online. No gaming or downloading needed.

[93-DY-SAM]

Folks - the parents are looking to sharpen up the budget a little bit and are interested in this EE internet as opposed to the BT they currently have. 49quid vs 27quid. 24 month contract with EE and they have a statement that the prices will go up every year in March by an amount equal to CPI (about 3.9%)

Any experience or red flags with the EE group? Would use it for the odd bit of streaming, general wifi around the house for the phones and maybe paying the bills online. No gaming or downloading needed.

BT and EE are the same thing. They merged a while ago and BT are in the process of rebranding everything under the EE name.

[Puckoon]

Why are they offering different prices?

[93-DY-SAM]

Why are they offering different prices?

No idea. But 100% they are two cheeks of the same arse. Ask them.

[dec]

Why are they offering different prices?

New deals to gather customers are often cheaper.
This link https://www.bt.com/broadband suggests broadband from from £27.99 a month at BT

[Puckoon]

Thanks both.

[armaghniac]

I am with Fibrus a couple of years as was tied in after they brought fibre up my road., they did did a free connection.I had no choice as BT could only offer copper. Does anyone know if they have to allow competitors to use the lines after a period, i.e. can BT offer me fibre now using Fibrus infrastructure?

What do you want from BT? Fibrus offer a phone service for a small add on. All phones will be over the Internet from the near future in any case, even if you have a copper line,

Dont want anything from BT as such, certainly not a phoneline. What I mean is that that before Fibrus put fibre on my road, the BT copper line was my only option for broadband. If i decided to move from Fibrus when my contract is up, I dont know if other broadband providers can offer fibre as they would need to use Fibrus wires.

It seems that other providers can offer services over the Fibrus cable, but at present they charge more for such access than Openreach do and everyone on Fibrus has an introductory deal, so nobody else does offer a service. I expect this will change in the future.

By way of contrast, Fibrus' cousin in the 26 counties, National Broadband, does not sell service at all and there are many options for service from Eir, Vodafone etc.

[johnnycool]

Since that last storm on Sunday night my Fibrus connection is still down and lying by the roadside less than a mile from my home.

Absolute shít show and TBH with them being so small of an outfit, kinda expected by very disappointing

Redundancies coming with them now too as well

The firm that fitted out the broadband are a Tyrone based company that Fibrus acquired to do the work, they have done the work so would obviously have to let go of staff as work is done, couldn't expect them to keep workers on to fit out when there is nothing to fit.

The problem is maintaining the lines, Johnny wouldn't be on his own after that storm a week is a long time in a house with kids and no broadband! Good luck lol

Feckin nightmare.

My biggest problem at the minute is the lack of information from Fibrus.

I'm using their whatsapp thingy which in itself isn't bad but get a different story from whoever I finally get through to, twice a day, every day.
I was told I'd be reconnected last Wednesday, it come and went and nothing, whatsapped them again, it will definitely be the weekend, Saturday or Sunday. Once again it came and went. Yesterday I was told it would definitely be today, but being the sneaky bollox I am, I called viberoptix directly and they told me they weren't scheduled by Fibrus to go out here today, but did inform me that they are scheduled to be out tomorrow, but Fibrus may change that at any time...

[NAG1]

Fibrus were offered a huge contract to put the infrastructure in place, especially in rural areas with poor coverage. This infrastructure will be open to any provider to offer broadband services using the fibre that fibrus installed.

Problem (if you want to look at it this way) for Fibrus is, once they have installed all the infrastructure the contract is done and as an entity they have worked themselves out of work essentially.

The way for them to remain in business is to act then as provider like all the rest of the companies in the market.

This is not to say that those running the company won't have made a sh*t tonne of cash from a public contract. So if they are smart enough they will have made enough not to be overly caring once the contract ends.

[lurganblue]

Has anyone bought a home wifi extender/booster recently and have any recommendations?  We would have a very weak or non existent signal in some of our rooms.  I've searched and read about a few of the products out there but it seems like a bit of a minefield.