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Broadband is finally arriving to my house.. but will an engineer be needed?

TomOwen93
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3: Seeker

So after waiting for a long time for Vodafone to confirm I am actually getting broadband with them (I got sent a router and the order number wouldn't work online and I was sent ZERO account details or confirmation dates!!!), it has finally happened.

 

Unfortunately I am still a bit bitter from the store staff telling me the activation date would be really close to what BT promised (14th) when it was actually the end of the month (27th)

 

One of the more helpful livechat staff sent me an email with all my account details and dates very quickly after me having a good moan (it was my fifth time on the livechat after all).

 

HOWEVER, it says in the email "Activation Date: September 27th
No Engineer appointment required"

 

Can somebody clarify this for me please? I was told on the phone by the broadband team that Openreach will need to come out and reactivate my line and THAT is why it's not as simply as "activating the line" hence why the store staff telling me "oh yeah it's really quick to activate!"

Is "No Engineer appointment" referring to them not needing to go to my house directly?

 

I can't contact the team on the phone before tuesday so hoping to hear on here if possible. Cheers.

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Nabs
17: Community Champion
17: Community Champion

@TomOwen93 You call that a mess... should see my cupboard of wires! haha
Good news is that looks like an NTE5 so it should be absolutely fine with Fibre as long as you use the filter that came with the router. 

Do you have any phone extensions anywhere in the house? If you do these will need to be filtered as well.

 

It doesn't look like the latest model of socket so If you find you have issues with speeds (of poor voice call quality when using a connected phone) once it's all hooked up you may find an upgraded one would help.

One thing to be aware of is that those sockets are actually owned by BT Openreach so it's not something you are able (at least not supposed to be able) to change yourself.

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TomOwen93
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Hey Nabs,

All went well, broadband came on at 1pm, I had a bit of testing with it before leaving for my late shift. Download speed was 74 Mbit on wifi (standing next to the router heh) and pretty similar on Ethernet.

Very pleased, the speed makes up a bit for the delay in getting it sorted!

Cheers for the help.

Nabs
17: Community Champion
17: Community Champion

Fantastic news @TomOwen93! :smileyhappy:

 

74Mbps is the maximum the current Fibre technology supports so you're doing well there, it literally can't get any better :smileywink:

 

Glad it's all sorted, Hope you enjoy your new connection.

 

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