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Hope you have better luck than i did.Signed up to Sky about four months ago. Had date fixed for connection to the fibre cables installed on my estate by a company called City Fibre. Got a text from Sky postponing the connection until they had completed a "feasibility study". Week later got a phone call from City Fibre (who it seems are owned by Sky) saying that there were issues with the cables laid under the pavements on my road, which were defective and they had no plans to rectify them, as the uptake of customers was minimal. I then had to crawl back to BT, now EE to be reconnected.
Not surprised really as the first gang of contractors were a real bunch of cowboys. Which meant that another gang had to come out to rectify the work. Not very well it seems. 

I have no idea if it will be good, but we have little choice out here having already tried a router, and Starlink, at £75 a month.

What is the delivery tech?  Ie from your property to the exchange. I thought there was no fibre in your area?

It'll be an altnet, so won't go to any exchange.  Given the speeds, it will likely be based on XGS-PON technology, unlike the junk Openreach are still fitting on virtually all their full fibre rollout, GPON.  That's part of the reason any Openreach based fibre has woeful upload speeds, and BT Group's senior management fails to grasp why upload is important in the world of cloud service, IoT devices and social video sites....


When Gigaclear cocked up my install quite spectacularly, I went with Swish for almost a year on a 1gbps synchronous service, and I found it unnecessarily fast.  So when Gigaclear finally sorted out their shit, I dropped that order to 500mbps sync .  I do big uploads frequently (and often get a telling off from gaytube for trying to upload videos larger than 250GB ), and never seem to be waiting for things to finish....

What is the delivery tech?  Ie from your property to the exchange. I thought there was no fibre in your area?

This was the case for years.

We made do with an internet connection from Tandy designed in 1972.

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 The exhaust was gratis, courtesy of my MOD employers stainless steel from stores. If questioned, my apprentice master said it was ‘training’ on a mandrel bender, sheet metal bender training for the silencers and Tig welding training for welding it all up. Just reminded me how much I miss that place and their tools and machinery. Oh, and their stores. 

the cats back stainless exhaust on my Senator was courtesy of Hallls Mentholyptus .... the bends were either sections of 90 deg bends or the gentle bends were achieved using a hydraulic pipe bender & 'toffee' inside the thin walled 2" DPL stainless pipe to stop it from collapsing 

We were years ahead of the likes of Powerflow Andy.   

 

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 The exhaust was gratis, courtesy of my MOD employers stainless steel from stores. If questioned, my apprentice master said it was ‘training’ on a mandrel bender, sheet metal bender training for the silencers and Tig welding training for welding it all up. Just reminded me how much I miss that place and their tools and machinery. Oh, and their stores. 

the cats back stainless exhaust on my Senator was courtesy of Hallls Mentholyptus .... the bends were either sections of 90 deg bends or the gentle bends were achieved using a hydraulic pipe bender & 'toffee' inside the thin walled 2" DPL stainless pipe to stop it from collapsing 

We were years ahead of the likes of Powerflow Andy.   

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 The exhaust was gratis, courtesy of my MOD employers stainless steel from stores. If questioned, my apprentice master said it was ‘training’ on a mandrel bender, sheet metal bender training for the silencers and Tig welding training for welding it all up. Just reminded me how much I miss that place and their tools and machinery. Oh, and their stores. 

the cats back stainless exhaust on my Senator was courtesy of Hallls Mentholyptus .... the bends were either sections of 90 deg bends or the gentle bends were achieved using a hydraulic pipe bender & 'toffee' inside the thin walled 2" DPL stainless pipe to stop it from collapsing 

there are some very clever/skilled people out there! 

Yes, massive respect to the engineering behind those projects. 

My toolmaker apprentice master had a Jaguar engine and running gear in his MK2 Cortina. He’d cut and re-rolled the arches so that the wheels fitted, and chopped various other parts as well to make it all fit.
My mate fitted a 4.7 litre Nissan diesel engine in to his brand new Land Rover 90. Plenty of mods required on that as the exhaust manifold is on the opposite side to a Land Rover, and the original drive shafts were too long. It got some shocked expressions from people as we overtook them whilst towing the hot rod.   

On a lesser scale, I fitted an Escort RS2000 engine in to my MK3 Cortina, but apart from fabricating a new exhaust to meet up with the tubular 4-2-1 manifold, it was relatively straightforward. The exhaust was gratis, courtesy of my MOD employers stainless steel from stores. If questioned, my apprentice master said it was ‘training’ on a mandrel bender, sheet metal bender training for the silencers and Tig welding training for welding it all up. Just reminded me how much I miss that place and their tools and machinery. Oh, and their stores. 

I remember in the early seventies a lad that lived local to us put a V8 lump into a MK1 Escort & that was it , no upgrades to the braking system it obviously didn't end well.

Many years back, a Ford Escort MK3 pulled out of a side turn in front of us. He gunned it down the road and suddenly the front end slammed to the ground and both front wheels went rolling down the road on their own.  We stopped and retrieved his missing wheels for him.
I knew what he’d done as soon as I glanced at his car.    He’d fitted wheel spacers but had kept the original length bolts in place. 

What is the delivery tech?  Ie from your property to the exchange. I thought there was no fibre in your area?