u/Snowy-Doc

BT/Openreach are installing full-fibre next week. I wasn't asked about this - they just told me they would be turning up. Their plan is to install full-fibre to ensure I get Digital Voice. From digging around online it seems there are two ways to get Digital Voice.

1. Move to full-fibre (FTTP) and then my landline phone plugs into my router that connects to the Openreach ONT. or ...
2. Get a Digital Voice adaptor. Plug it into a power socket and pair it with the router. Once paired, plug the adaptor in anywhere in the house, plug my phone into the adaptor, turn on VoIP in the router settings and then all calls are made via VoIP.

I'm pretty annoyed that I have not been offered option 2. Not even mentioned. Not even discussed.

My questions are, are the following true?

1. PSTN shuts down at the end of January 2027 and all analogue landlines stop working. If you want to keep your landline you must transfer to Digital Voice.
2. Broadband keeps on working after January 2027 because all customers not on FTTP (and that's currently 62% of UK homes) will be moved to SoGEA and SoGEA will be available until at least 2030. SoGEA is FTTC and is the current copper infrastructure with the voice calls removed and all data is digital only.

It seems like BT/Openreach are offering a complex solution and ignoring the possibility of the simple solution (if that is indeed possible).

Does everything I've written make sense. What am I missing?

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Edit to update ...

I phoned BT and spoke to a person who clarified everything. The Email from Openreach said they were going to be installing fibre to upgrade me to Digital Voice. That was wrong - they are not installing fibre at all. What they are going to do is change the connection (from my current FTTC) that carries the analogue phone signal and broadband, to SoGEA (that only carries broadband - and that will be done at a street cabinet) and then enabling Digital Voice, coming to my house and plugging the phone into the router and turning on VoIP. It appears I get the simple solution after all.

Many thanks to everyone who replied with useful info.

Help or advice needed. I have a Synology DS220+ that I have just upgraded to DSM 7.3.20-86009. I have 2 drives in a single volume set up as Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR). Both drives are healthy. There isn't any data scrubbing taking place. There's no indexing taking place. The RAID is not rebuilding. Ram usage is low at about 20%. CPU usage is almost 0%.

In my desire to tidy up my file system I want to move several folders, each of which are between 1TB and 2TB, to another folder with all the folders in the same hierarchy. I've been trying to do this in File Station by simply opening two windows and dragging said folders from one window (the source window) to the other (the destination window).

My problem is this - it's very slow. The move actually seems to be a copy from source to destination and then delete the source.

The files are all quite large - several hundreds of MBytes to between 1GByte and 2GByte - they are not hundreds and thousands of small files.

When I say slow I mean maybe 100MBytes/second to 200MBytes/second. In my naivety I was expecting an almost instant transfer - move one folder in a hierarchy to a new place in the same hierarchy, i.e., both source and destination are under the same root folder structure. On all OS I've used in the past this would be instant - the file tree simply gets relinked.

My questions are ... What am I doing wrong? Are my expectations unreasonable? Is there something hidden in the Control Panel somewhere that controls drag-and-drop behaviour? Is there something about DSM that precludes simple movement of files like I have described?

Thanks in advance for any help/answers/advice.