[Dorset] Fibre to the home

2022-09-14 Thread Peter Merchant
Just wondering if anyone has got fibre to the home and if it was worthwhile. They are currently digging up our pavements and putting in the fibre, and then another company will come and offer us fibre into the home. Does it do much disruption? Ideally I would like my router in a different plac

Re: [Dorset] Fibre to the home

2022-09-14 Thread Hugh Frater
If you don’t need your landline, you can get rid of that and the associated line rental costs when you move to fttp. If I had the offer, I’d jump at the chance. You can never have fast enough broadband 🤣 On Wed, 14 Sep 2022 at 11:22, Peter Merchant wrote: > Just wondering if anyone has got fibre

Re: [Dorset] Fibre to the home

2022-09-14 Thread Hugh Frater
In fact, I’ve signed up for fttp at my Somerset home, delivered overhead by Voneus. They’re about 12mths behind schedule on their rollout but it should be a game changer when it arrives. I went for the 300mb symmetrical package. The plan is to use vonage to take over the landline number and convert

Re: [Dorset] Fibre to the home

2022-09-14 Thread James Blake
I’ve got CityFibre, which is actually a Vodafone back end. Had it since last December and it’s been awesome with aggregate speeds across my devices approaching the advertised 1 Gbps (I don’t think I have much contention in my area). They also supply a 50 Gb 5G backup dongle, but I haven’t had

[Dorset] Video Game History Foundation

2022-09-14 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
Hi all, IIRC, there's at least one fellow archiving fan here, so I thought this might peak someone's interest: https://gamehistory.org/ It's a nonprofit dedicated to archiving video game history. Hamish -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2022-09-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replyi

Re: [Dorset] Fibre to the home

2022-09-14 Thread James Blake
Close to what I’ve done - I have a Cisco VoIP handset that connects to my company’s SIP server so my London office number rings here or I can transfer to mobile using the handset when I’m travelling - personal calls I just use my mobile. Our house monitored alarm system changed from landline to