Costs of installing fibre broadband

[Louise_W_515]

Hi

I made an enquiry to another provider and in their charges section they mention an amount of £200 in order to connect up a property which currently doesn't have a (fibre) broadband connection, Would it be similar with EE? If there were any difficulties would it be possible to cancel and switch to 5G mobile broadband via a hub? It's a 2nd floor flat that I'm moving to and in Glasgow City. The road has fibre broadband but the property doesn't appear to have any high speed connections.

Thanks for any relevant info
Louise

[XRaySpeX]

Yes, for VM but not for EE & Openreach BB. I have 1 outside my house but I don't have cable TV.

[Louise_W_515]

The trouble is there's no guarantee of what speed I'll actually get. Old phone lines plus some unknown distance. If I can't definitely get 125Mb, then I'll have wasted my time - and money. I really need to talk to an installation engineer but I don't suppose that's easy to do...

[Louise_W_515]

Does that mean openreach/ee would have to dig up the paving stones etc to lay full fibre? But if I asked VM to do it they'd just have access via the catv hatch?

[XRaySpeX]

Same for any BB, you won't know until you try it. EE is estimating 146 Meg on G.Fast, a technology capable of up to 330 Meg. So they would've taken taken your line & distance into account & probably subtracted a fudge factor of their own. Post the results from my BT Wholesale Broadband Availability Checker link & we'll get a far more accurate estimate.

[XRaySpeX]

Are EE offering you Full Fibre? You've not mentioned it. Again if you do my BTw Availability Checker link we'll find out. We're guessing at the mo' w/out any hard facts.

You said no one in your flats have cable TV. So VM will also need to dig up paving stones. The CATV manhole is just to serve the street. 

[Louise_W_515]

The wholesale checker gives the following with caveats

[XRaySpeX]

Ah, that's better.

There's no FTTP (EE Full Fibre) there.

You can get 56 - 75 Meg VDSL (EE Fibre) or 110 - 204 Meg G.Fast (EE Fibre Max).

[Louise_W_515]

I did say that EE are only offering Gfast. By the looks of it Openreach aren't going to put full fibre in - presumably because of too much competition already in place. I'll have to move by the end of October and I'm  guessing installation will take up to 30 days so I'm already cutting it fine. Perhaps I'll just go for the 5G broadband and save all the installation hassle and uncertainty (=stress)

[Louise_W_515]

I'm not so sure about that - isn't Fibre Max full fibre? Even that is only 91Mb guaranteed. Edge says Fibre 67 Essentials - only 51 Mb guaranteed. I think I'll be better off with the 5G hub. At least I know the 4G download speed is at least 92 Mb - 5G would hopefully be faster.

Thanks for your time

[XRaySpeX]

Fibre Max is G.Fast. It still comes over a copper landline to an ordinary BT phone socket. It's not Full Fibre which is FTTP which comes over fibre laid all the way to the home.

EE's Guaranteed Speeds are an absolute low (even below BTw's estimates) just to protect their backs. Almost certainly it will be far lower than what you actually get. With EE's estimate of 146 Meg there is plenty of leeway to actually exceed this all the way up to 204 Meg.

IMHO I would never opt for mobile BB when you can get fast fixed BB as you can. It is not so reliable & can be inconsistent. I've tried it & hated it. Have you ever used mobile BB? Also, I don't know why but many peeps have reported that their mobile BB is well slower than their mobile phone in the same location.