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The original was posted on /r/homenetworking by /u/bisto_js on 2024-01-24 11:03:09+00:00.

Hi all,

I grew up and currently live in the north of England in an old mining town, in general, it’s a pretty deprived area, but through some good luck and hard work, I have managed to buy my own house on a new build estate, the house was built in 2018, but the fibre infrastructure is only FTTC, with copper lines for the house

For the first 6 months I endured the poor internet, i had packet loss, high ping, high load times etc. I believe the best speed I can get is up to 26Mb, and I get around 20Mb. I have since installed a OpenWrt on a tplink router and BT modem which has helped dramatically, but the download speeds are still painful.

I have contacted BT, they have no plans to install Fibre to the premises until 2027, and I hope to be long gone by then, Virgin won’t offer anything despite them doing FTTP on the street before mine.

I thought new builds should have FTTP as standard? It appears ours must’ve not been worth the money as the estate is only 10 houses.

I’d be willing to get a custom line but I understand that’s probably incredibly expensive?

What are my options?