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by diggingdeeper - 20th Oct 2026 11:26am
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Just been on the official bt website forum and one of trhe so called bt experts reckons it may be weeks or months. Im sick of paying O2 £36.00 a month for call and broadband. Im going to switch to someone like talk talk or plusnet until the fibre is up and running. Anyone else use plusnet? Any good???Thanks again guys
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The fibre optic is going live in my road sometime between august and September (estimated).
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where abouts is your road, approximately, I live toward Castleway and am waiting to upgrade
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Im getting bt infinity installed this Thursday morning. Had to book the day off so I hope everything goes ahead. Its off Raleigh road. Just check your post codee and telephone number on the bt, sky websites. Talk talk, plusnet also have checkers.
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Just been on the official bt website forum and one of trhe so called bt experts reckons it may be weeks or months. Im sick of paying O2 £36.00 a month for call and broadband. Im going to switch to someone like talk talk or plusnet until the fibre is up and running. Anyone else use plusnet? Any good???Thanks again guys Talk Talk would be the best one.They are really good i haven t had any problems with them so far.
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Hi....thanks..yeah done that, so far it just says not available, guess it must be soon though. Can't wait, had to put with 2 meg for years
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Hi....thanks..yeah done that, so far it just says not available, guess it must be soon though. Can't wait, had to put with 2 meg for years Next time you see an open reach engineer, stop them and ask them. Once the cab in my road was installed it was about two weeks before it went live.
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LoL...will try that, will junp in front of the 1st van that passes. Seriously, though...good idea, will look out for one
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According to TalkTalk fibre is available to me. Having looked at Sky, who I am with currently, they want another £20 per month and £50 for a new box.
Surely this is not right?
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According to TalkTalk fibre is available to me. Having looked at Sky, who I am with currently, they want another £20 per month and £50 for a new box.
Surely this is not right? Theres a few big companies offering some decent deals atm so you dont have to go with Sky. I have gone with BT infinity but thats my personal choice. My neighbour has gone with Talk Talk and he is over the moon with it. Plusnet might also be worth looking at. Check on their websites.
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Had fibre optic installed yesterday and wow, what a difference. Im connecting at around 73mb. Brilliant, no more having to leave the xbox on all day whilst my son downloads demos and stuff.
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I am assuming all those with fibre optic installed in Leasowe are those on the Wallasey exchange? Sadly I am on Arrowebrook and it seems it won't be available until March next year there. Those on the Wallasey exchange must be as far from that as I am from Upton - and used to getting pretty rubbish speeds on ADSL? So those fibre optic speeds are excellent.
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I am assuming all those with fibre optic installed in Leasowe are those on the Wallasey exchange? Sadly I am on Arrowebrook and it seems it won't be available until March next year there. Those on the Wallasey exchange must be as far from that as I am from Upton - and used to getting pretty rubbish speeds on ADSL? So those fibre optic speeds are excellent. Im on the wallasey exchange. I used to get between 3 and 4 meg. Moving to BT Infity was the best things Ive done. Im getting 73mb download speeds. Highly recommended. So far so good. Isnt upton a Virgin Media area?? My sister lives in Upton and ison Virgin. Shes getting 60mb dl speed.
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Sorry, I live in Leasowe, the exchange is in Upton. So no Virgin for me. I am only getting about 2mb at the moment.
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Sorry, I live in Leasowe, the exchange is in Upton. So no Virgin for me. I am only getting about 2mb at the moment. Where about in leasowe are you?? Im definateely on the wallasey excahnge, have you checked on the openreach website?? Check your excahnge
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