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Broadband in Aldermere, Cheshunt

Broadband in Aldermere, Cheshunt

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Started by Anonymous 13 years ago
Since moving in to the Crest Nicholson Aldermere development in Cheshunt over the last two years, we have all noticed extremely poor internet speeds, as low as 1mbps on most days. As more new residents move in, this has become noticeably worse, making it all but unusable now. Enough is enough. We are all paying for services we cannot use. BT have investigated the issue and determined that it is due to the distance of the green street cabinet in Brookfield Lane west, from our properties, as copper cable was installed which isn't designed to cover such distances. They have also admitted that upgrading the street cabinet to the fibre network would, with a subsequent upgrade to a fibre service (such as Sky, BT or others) immediately increase speeds dramatically. The Waltham Cross exchange, which we all connect to, has been upgraded to fibre, as have the streets either side of Aldermere. BT have no current plans to upgrade the street cabinet and will not say how long it would be or even if they will do it. Crest Nicholson have declined to help, blaming BT, but admit the didn't ever test the connection when the development was starting to be built.They also failed to invite in Virgin Media, so we have no alternative to BT cabling. We the undersigned, all residents of the Aldermere development, collectively request the assistance of our local councillors, Crest Nicholson and BT to resolve the issue on our behalf and to ensure the street cabinet is upgraded to the fibre network. We urge you to take action on our behalf.

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November 28, 2013

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Robert E-C
12 years ago Featured

To not have invested in fibre broadband with a new development is unexplainable! Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire were granted £4,150,000 for project 'Connected Counties' to deliver super fast broadband by 2015. Installing old tech has left everyone with an average of 1Mb/s download speeds. There is now a new target for 2018 and this brand new site is already out of date.

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Seun Odueko
12 years ago Featured

I'm about to reserve a property on this development but stone-age Internet service would be a deal killer!

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V Spindler
12 years ago Featured

Not very good that in this day and age, this has to be done to get acceptable broadband speeds. It is very difficult to do pretty much anything online!

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Sarah Gupta
13 years ago Featured

Living here is a nightmare for working from home. I have to drive to a cafe just to send a few emails. Ridiculous.

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Simon Lund
13 years ago Featured

How can a new build in 2017 have speeds slower than dial up? Its a joke really. We cant even watch basic tv without it stoping every 2 minutes.

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Dave Turner
13 years ago Featured

FIX IT NOW

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Julian
11 years ago

I hope this gets sorted asap

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Seun Odueko
12 years ago

Yes, it's finally here!

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