Some guys laying cable along existing channels in Devonshire this week, they said it’s for BT.
Checking my postcode on Community Fibre’s homepage now gets me ‘Great news, we’re bringing full fibre broadband to you within the next few months.’, compared to the prior generic ‘we’re building our network’ message. I’ve been checking regularly for a while so this is definitely a recent development!
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Community Fibre has been working on the corner of Lowther Hill and Brockley Rise for the last few days:
Edit - and siimilar work on the corner of Agnew Road and Brockley Rise.
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We had ours installed today - Vancouver Rd. Called Wednesday, installed today and 1st 6 months free for Black Friday special. Gone from EE upload of 2 mbs to 530 mbs. Plus coverage in entire flat. Happy days
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I have! Hoping ‘soon’ is, well, soon and not many months.
Where are you roughly? More HOP or FH end? I am praying but nothing here so far.
FH, fairly close to the station (Signal/Sainsbury’s side).
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I was on the waiting list and just got my phone call to say they are ready on Como Road and I signed up
Installer coming Thursday
49£ 1gb up. 1gb down
6 months free.
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We’re just on David’s Road, near the Signal.
I’m hoping soon is soon as well!
How long were you on the waiting list out of interest?
I’m not sure to be honest. It’s not really a waiting list. More an interest list.
They posted a leaflet through my door a couple of months ago saying coming soon to the area and register interest one their website
Not sure if there’s a connection to turning on high interest areas first or more likely just rolling out across the area street by street
Did you notice any road works on your street being completed before it became available?
Just had an email saying that Community Fibre is now available in Kemble Road.
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I’ve heard that Taymount Grange, on Taymount Rise, has now secured Community Fibre. I too live on Taymount Rise, and the same firm that laid the cables for TG will be laying them in the new year for our block. Will report back on how it goes.
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I’d be interested to hear how people are getting on with Community Fibre if they’ve had it installed.
We currently have FTTP via BT which is brilliant but are hoping to move in a couple of weeks within SE23 (and it has Community Fibre according to my search ready for install) and I’m wondering if this is a better option 
BT FTTP is good, my husband and I can both WFH and do video calls at the same time but I like the fact you don’t need a landline or to pay for one, making this package much more attractive.
Highly recommend. We changed beginning of December and had no issues since then. Previously both struggling to WFH due to download / upload speeds on EE. Now super fast. We don’t have landline either
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Another recommendation here for Community Fibre, we struggled for over a decade with BT ADSL with no chance of fibre shared between five of us, spent about 3 years arguing with Virgin to connect us as they said the tree outside had damaged the cable and recently got Community Fibre which was the most painless and easy to install with a fibre line between the BT telegraph pole across the road and our house.
I have screenshotted the results as I now have three Internet providers coming into the house and may now consider going back down to one.
Community Fibre has the best speed, downloads 25% faster than Virgin but 6 times the upload speed and a third of the latency/delay/ping which is good for gamers and some specialist applications.
BT looks weak in comparison but although slow has proved very reliable and gives a good discount on BT Sport if you need it.
If you are interested in signing up for Community Fibre and want a £100 Amazon Voucher, I’ll get one as well, feel free to use this link Full Fibre Broadband up to 3 Gbps | Unlimited Fibre Broadband | Community Fibre or PM me
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BT
All speed tests done on the same laptop using a wifi connection with Google’s Internet speed test.
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Out of interest what package do you have with Community Fibre? Is the 250.7 Mbps download a wired or wifi connection?
I have got the 1Gb package. I think you can get higher speeds using wired and initially when the routers only were tested they were nearer that speed but I only use wifi so the figures shown are for wifi.
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