When parents-in-law move homes – a tale of being “default” tech support

Sheesh BT.

The MiL has moved. Around the corner from her old house. She had BT Infinity (BT’s Retail FTTC product) at the old house. She ordered the service to be moved. The voice service was activated on the day she moved, but not the Internet access.

The new house has previously had FTTC with the last occupant, it has the FTTC faceplate. One can only assume that the “double jumpering” to the FTTC MSAN is still in place too.

I wouldn’t mind betting that it’s even coming off the same bloody street cab/MSAN.

Can we just take the old Homehub 3 and VDSL modem over and plug those in? Oh no.

BT have sent a new Homehub 5 and scheduled an engineer visit for Friday, 5 days after she’s moved in.

It just feels a bit wrong, and maybe even on the crazy side. In theory this could have been done as a simultaneous provide – i.e. both the voice and the internet service brought up at the same time, and in this case potentially without an engineer visit!

Who knows why it’s not happened. Certainly the MiL wouldn’t have known to ask for a “sim-provide”, but should she have to?