At long last we have optic-fibre broadband. Only as far as the green box outside of the Heathcote Arms in Croft, about half a mile away, the last bit being copper wire suspended amongst the trees, but we are guarenteed 22Mb-32Mb (which in practice will no doubt prove to be just 22Mb). We’ve had this option since August, but we were tied to a BT contract, and although we could upgrade at that time, only expensive fibre options were available from BT. The BT contract ended on Thursday, when we swapped to Plusnet. BT reduced it’s price, but only price matched Plusnet when we were already committed.
It wasn’t totally smooth, of course. Plusnet initially advised that we would be offline for up to 2 hours on change over day. I had already planned to work at home, dog-sitting while Chantal was in court for one of her works cases, and so I decided not to change the date for the new contract, and just put a note on “the board” in the office advising that internet at home would be variable and that I may not be picking up e-mails straight away. We were actually offline for 24 hours, quite traumatic for Chantal, and I had to go into the office for a short day.
Those of you on cable will probably still grumble that our internet speed is slow, but it definately an improvement.
Technically we live in Oaktree House, but sadly the tree had to go.
We now have a thriving Oakstump at the front of the house.
