Government Broadband Rural initiative.

[Robisere]

Hi
Bit of an awkward Title I know, but it concerns the fact that my Lincolnshire village has been chosen as on to be cabled up. Open Reach have already laid cable and installed new cabinets in ours and other villages. Louth, the nearest town about 2.5 miles, is our Exchange. It is said to be a 2-year Trial, but what I and others want to know, is what are BT going to actually do? The new cable is supposed to be 'Live' in September, there has been a very heavy Open Reach presence for months in the area. I assume that this means we will have FTTC (Fibre To The Cabinet) but would have to pay for FTTC (--The Home).

I would be grateful if the BT Representative who appears to offer so much help and useful information here, if he can give me an answer. Am I likely to see my present miserable 1.5 to 2.5 MB, increased to speeds at which I may download stuff before this time next week?

I don't have a BT line, BTW - it is rented from Talk talk to my ISP. However, I would consider going back to BT, if I was assured of greater speeds.

[penrhyn]

Talk Talk and Sky are offering Fibre broadband, you may not have to change ISP. Both are LLU operators at Louth.

You seem to be a tad slow what do your router stats look like?

[knightstyle]

Wow, wish I could get that speed here in rural Devon where my parents live, 0.7Mb/s at the moment and will slow down during the day.

[Buzby]

A common misconception, but you are falling into the trap. YOU will never get fibre, FTTC is just that - it'll be a twisted pair to your premises and a connection to BTs 2CN network.

If you watch the marketing, all state they offer fibre connections BUT this stops short of reaching you. As a connection is only as good as its weakest link, if there's copper in-between, you don't have fibre. What is upstream of you is irrelevant.

[penrhyn]

Originally Posted by Buzby

A common misconception, but you are falling into the trap. YOU will never get fibre, FTTC is just that - it'll be a twisted pair to your premises and a connection to BTs 2CN network.

If you watch the marketing, all state they offer fibre connections BUT this stops short of reaching you. As a connection is only as good as its weakest link, if there's copper in-between, you don't have fibre. What is upstream of you is irrelevant.

Good point Buzby, old enough to remember the ads, and Beatty come to that. It always used to annoy me when Virgin use to offer optical fibre broadband when it was their version of FTTC.

More people need to get an ology!

[iniltous]

Originally Posted by Buzby

A common misconception, but you are falling into the trap. YOU will never get fibre, FTTC is just that - it'll be a twisted pair to your premises and a connection to BTs 2CN network.

If you watch the marketing, all state they offer fibre connections BUT this stops short of reaching you. As a connection is only as good as its weakest link, if there's copper in-between, you don't have fibre. What is upstream of you is irrelevant.

As the OP states somewhere its a 2 year trial it could be FTTH so the fibre would indeed go right to the premises, or a trail where in some FTTC areas you can have a bespoke ( and presumably paid for ) fibre installed from the FTTC cabinet to the home , in effect upgrading the service from FTTC speeds to FTTH speeds, as FTTC has been available as a consumer offering for quite a while its not likely to be called a trial area if its plain FTTC