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Fibernest... a company originally started by persimmon homes.

Great! no new homes should be built without fiber internet you say.... while you are correct, be careful what you wish for.

This company put their "infrastructure" in with very little future planning, with the bare minimum and not meeting industry norms.

If you're "lucky" enough to be in a Persimmon home, you'll be lucky if Openreach or any other provider will connect to your property.

Fibernest previously would allow other ISP's to connect using their infrastructure, but their pricing was so uncompetitive, it wasn't worth their time. Also Persimmon would either refuse, or the management companies they employ would refuse to allow other service providers (Such as Virgin Media or Openreach) to put their cabling in to connect to their own networks.

So they have created a monopoly for themselves within the confines of the law.

Their infrastructure is a very early GPON network while all other providers are installing XGSPO, while to most people that will mean nothing, but to put it simply, their network will handle, at maximum, 2488mb/s download and 1244mb/s upload, split amongst however many homes are connected to that line at one time. Meanwhile, XGSPON will do 10gb/s download and 10gb/s upload, while it may not be needed now, in the next 10 years, 10gb speeds will be common and 1gb speeds will be considered "slow".

In Early 2025, OFNL bought out Fibernest and their network with the promise of "more choice", however, we're now in the 3rd quarter of 2026 and there shows no progress of OFNL/Fibernest allowing any of their customers to move.

I have no idea how they have their network setup, but my "Location" is always shown as Manchester when I am over 200 miles away... They also deploy a CGNAT, but I pay for a static IP so this shouldn't be an issue.

The "router" they supply is abysmal, I know ISP's usually supply low tier routers anyway, but this is TEMU level of bad, The home monitoring software is terrible, there's 1 ethernet port on the router and it has such bad WiFi connectivity, you're forced to buy extenders, a better router or "rent" the extenders from Fibernest.

Overall, I cannot wait to leave this company, I have been checking almost religiously for updates as to when OFNL will allow switching. Purely because I can get a better speed connection (Symmetrical gigabit), for £20 less a month than what Fibernest want for 900mb/s down!

I have a PERSIMMON HOME and am tied to Fibre nest Internet which is a monopoly and totally wrong- no other builder does this i should be able to find a supplier of my choice on the open market- Fibre Nest at time of buying my new home owned this company and in my view a complete scam to put more cash into their own pot - shouldn't be allowed .
Persimmon has recently sold fibre nest to BUUK who have now integrated fibre nest into OFNL which allows Fibre Nest customers to access upto they say 18 other Internet providers NONE OF THEM MAINSTREAM AND STILL PACKAGES THAT YOU CAN GET CHEAPER ELSEWHERE so nothing changes - THANKS FOR THAT PERSIMMON - WEVE BEEN HUNG DRAWN AND QUARTERED YET AGAIN , what a web of deception!

I sadly am locked in to fibrenest. Wish I had just got a starlink instead. They have so many convoluted settings and security locks that make it difficult to use a mesh wifi system that isn't their own. Clearly done on purpose so they force you into using their own extenders for the mere price of £12 a month extra. BT is plug and play, so is Sky, Virgin etc. A complete scam, and poor customer support. Avoid if you can!

Worst internet ever had , worst customer service ever had … bought a new build so tied in to the net & they know it & abuse the situation because you can’t do a thing about the poor net & service & they know it … 5 hubs , 4 engineers , drops out constant & picture quality varies & buffers on sky ??!
Avoid !!!

Bought new build house had no choice to go with this internet provider which is the worst and most expensive I’ve ever had.
Will change provider as soon as I can.

I broke my routers Fiber cable and the engineer was round the day after I called HQ. Marcus a very nice chap came and fixed it and even updated my router. He called me 1 hour before he arrived and went above and beyond. Very happy

Fibrenest’s set up process was a huge faff. Far too over complicated and convoluted. Once I managed to do that, I called customer service with huge 81 minute wait times - turns out there was a hardware issue and they needed to send an engineer out… who strictly works 8am-4pm. Failed service. Can’t wait to change.

The guy stayed for 5h of troubleshooting after 3 months of back and fourth with support. He didnt give up and finally managed to narrow down the issue.

Poor service... excessive down time.. Persimmon homes way of extortion...

THIS IS NOT THE CORRECT PLACE TO LOG YOUR POOR REVIEWS FOR THE COMPANY

IT IS FibreNest…

The worst Internet and service out there! Overpriced, unreliable and massively behind their competitors. If it wasnt for the fact persimmon force you to use this awful service they wouldn't have any customers through choice. AVOID AT ALL COST.

It's been one week since we moved in to our house and so far the Internet is good. We have Internet pack for £37 Superfast Full Fibre 125Mb and is really good 👍 plus 2 additional boosters on each floor.

Great Internet connection, fast and no issues after initial set up. The customer services staff are very helpful. I can't fault the WiFi connection or the staff who helped me when I first set my Internet up and connected to my devices.

Worse internet I ever had and I used to have virgin media. Would not recommend.

Be aware that it comes already installed in some houses now and you don't have a choice but to have it. They're the most expensive WiFi I have ever had and the WiFi doesn't actually work 80% of the time. Currently paying £33 pm but it's going up next year to £35. This internet dips out multiple times a day, even watching tv is near impossible sometimes and it takes forever to come back on. It's daylight robbery and you're forced to have them because it's already installed into your home. I'm also on the cheapest package they provide, I was on the most expensive but it was just as bad so I changed to the lower price package with them and there is no difference in performance.

This is the worst provider I have been forced to use. Over the last week I have the internet drop out while on important business calls and while working from home, this has now meant I have started working from the office more often. Persimmon Homes needs to sort this issue out, customers are being held to ransom......

Plot 44, Clyde Shores. Customer - Julie Stewart...engineer -Alan Feron.
I received a very prompt response from Alan who attended the property first thing the following day. He installed a new router and supported the activation of this. The job was completed without any fuss and all devices automatically linked to the new router.
Alan was friendly and informative and also knowledgeable about the issues experienced.

Do not get fibernest infact there owners persimmons must have the biggest red neck in building history
Simply put if you buy a home from this company you get fibre nest installed before your move if it isn’t already there
Second you can opt out giving 30 days notice
Thirdly there’s no other provider allowed to operate on persimmons land… your screwed quite simply
The problems we have had with signals and even getting in touch with them it’s a joke

We moved in to Wellington Gate site, Grove, Wantage June 21st 2024 and had a couple of issues with gaining access to the internet. This was due to other contractors damaging the fibre optic cable. Our Fibrenest engineer Luke worked round the clock to get the issue resolved. Luke was so professional and nothing was too much trouble. Thank you.

Was able to connect to WiFi on moving in day with no issues, updated provided prior to connection via a personalised email