Considering Fibre Optic - what's involved?

Lil306

I'm considering switching to BT Business Fibreoptic so I have 1 static IP address and a decent whack when it comes to upload / download speeds (I play online games a lot!)

Anyway, what's involved with the fibreoptics. Does it require an engineer to come out and splice fibre wires into a special BT hub of a sort or is it just fibre to cabinet to your closest street section and then plain ADSL to your house?

I don't mind an engineer coming in but to be honest I have little faith in the technical skills of BT and their employees I'd rather they touch as little of my belongings as poss :cool:

kwikbreaks

Assuming this is the business equivalent of the BT Infinty product the fibre goes as far as a street cabinet and from there to your home it's copper. It's an engineer install.

spike7451

I agree with Kwik on this,BT will probably replace the existing cabinets with new larger ones which terminate the Fibre & combine voice & data side.Basically,they'll be effectivly duplicating the way VM do their network.
Knowing what I do about the cable network that is the way I think they'll do it.

kwikbreaks

I think they'll just be adding cabs for the FTTC kit rather than replacing any Spike - they have to maintain the old copper for the landlines. I imagine they'll use spare pairs from the cables that go out from the existing cabs for the broadband connections rather than install new cables though.

I thought they'd be gaining some benefit from scrapping miles of the old fault prone copper but was told by somebody who I presume would know (Mr. Saffron on TBB) that they can't do that.

spike7451

kwikbreaks wrote: »

I think they'll just be adding cabs for the FTTC kit rather than replacing any Spike - they have to maintain the old copper for the landlines. I imagine they'll use spare pairs from the cables that go out from the existing cabs for the broadband connections rather than install new cables though.

I thought they'd be gaining some benefit from scrapping miles of the old fault prone copper but was told by somebody who I presume would know (Mr. Saffron on TBB) that they can't do that.

True,I was thinking that,site the new kit next to the old & link a spur of the new to the Krone blocks in the old cabs but this is BT we're talking about here...Who knows how they'll do it!:rotfl:

GunJack

'Tis true, the FTTC retains the copper D-side cabling, so if yours is reasonably short and in good nick, you should get the higher speeds

Lil306

GunJack wrote: »

'Tis true, the FTTC retains the copper D-side cabling, so if yours is reasonably short and in good nick, you should get the higher speeds

Well, the site says 29.5 down and 6.5 up whether I get it is a different thing