Upgrade from Legacy FTTC to New EE Full Fibre

[XRaySpeX]

I recently upgraded my legacy EE Fibre Plus plan (FTTC 80 Meg) to New EE Full Fibre 150 (FTTP 150 Meg), but could just as well have been any Full Fibre up to at least 1 Gig. It all went smoothly as to be hoped & expected.

In early Dec. 2024 I ordered the upgrade & EE booked an Openreach (OR) engineer to install it on 30th.Dec. He promptly arrived then in an OR van also marked with C.J.Quinn, so I don't know whether he was really OR but he did do a neat efficient job.

He laid my new fibre cable overhead from the telephone pole in parallel to my existing separate landline about a foot apart to my roof area, than vertically down to near ground level to a small grey external box & then horizontally to a entry point he drilled close to where my existing landline enters. On the inside he fitted a 1 Gig ONT resulting in this setup:

Once I hooked up the SH+ (SH32B) sent me beforehand I speed tested it at ThinkBroadBand to get sync speeds of 150/30 Meg as it has been since. I confirmed with the engineer that all was satisfactory & he left.

It took about 2 weeks before my legacy FTTC line was cut off. So for a time I was running 2 BBs, FTTC & FTTP, thro' 2 different routers.

I am longer using the SH+ but am using my original BrightBox 2 because I know it can reach all the places I want it to reach, all my devices recognise it without change & it is functionally stronger than the SH+. The only thing missing is IPv6 but I can live without that..

[Minkey1]

@XRaySpeX 

“My BB is too fast”

You’re the only one who thinks that then 😉😂

As I said before, we were quite happy with Fibre 100. Did all we wanted. But when someone comes along and says “you can up it to 900 for a £1pm extra”, you’re not going to say no.

At a rough calculation, it’s about 1800 times faster than our first “broadband” (going from dial-up) around 2001, for about £17 extra on the bill. Adjusted for inflation, it’d be actually a significant reduction in the cost.

[JimM11]

@Minkey1 You just touched a raw nerve there now, cannot get the modulation/de-modulation sound of the dial up connections out of the head, boy you know get it all out there.

[Minkey1]

Lee Evans used to do a great impression of the noise it made 😂

Those ladies didn’t half take a long time to appear.

Eh, what 🧐 

[Chris_B]

@Minkey1  🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Chris_B]

@JimM11   This’ll take you back.

Click here.  

[Chris_B]

@JimM11   Just noticed the actual name of it.   It’s about right as well.   

[JimM11]

@Chris_B Your developing the @Minkey1 humour unless it's always been there, now that i have listened thank you NOT, even harder to get it out probably wake up through the night shouting **bleep** turn that modem off.....

[Minkey1]

@Chris_B 

Ringing up the internet.

Those were the days 😂

[Schockwave]

Glad we have moved on from that!

[Minkey1]

Just remembered. In the early days BB was also described as an “always on” connection, to differentiate from dial up.