[memsom]

This is our situation too. What makes it worse is we have Cable in the area too, but that stops on the public street, and doesn't come on to the estate.

We were looking to move recently and almost bought a house from a sub company of Persimmons (yeah, we pulled out after we found out they were involved), but the houses all had Fibre to the premises. Except the provider was a monopoly, and was owned by Persimmons. Apparently, you didn't eve get a BT line installed, and were completely stuck with this dodgy 3rd party provider for the life of the property. That and the quality of Persimmons workmanship was enough to make us walk away from what was actually a very "sweet" deal.

[iso1631]

There are all sorts of problems with houses built in say the last 10-15 years. The leasehold scam has headlines, but even freeholds come with things like 'estate charges' and 'management companies', which mean that nearby public spaces (open areas, playgrounds etc) are owned by a private company, and that company can charge whatever they want to house owners, without even giving them a breakdown of the costs! Note these are public facilities open to everyone, not just residents.

Half the time the roads aren't even maintained by the council, but there's no rebate on council tax.

But I have to admit this is a new one on me.

[robocat]

Look into point-to-point wireless links? Find a friend outside the estate that you can work out how to get a line-of-sight to and connect up to their connection, and pay all or half of their ISP fees.

Depends on terrain for how easy it is to do.

I really like Ubiquiti products (e.g. Litebeam, Nanostation) because they are cheap, reliable, and have great features. They do need configuration, but I worked it out from Internet and YouTube when I did it.

[ErrantX]

Do you mean FibreNest (the Persimmon owned one?). I can't understand how they are allowed to get away with that!

We live on a relatively recent Persimmon estate but luckily OFNL got the contract; even that's a bit dodgy, all of the ISPs have crap websites and are a little dodgy looking (although the service has been alright).

And yeh, no BT line. It was an exclusive contract. OpenReach say they wont even install lines until the roads are adopted. Ironically, there is an independent Care Home built next door to us & OpenReach have been up and down the street and in our estate cabinet busy fitting their lines....