fibre cabinates installed so how long now?

macman

With FTTC, the critical distance is cab to property, not exchange to property. If you are only getting 9-10Mbps on FTTC, then you must be at the limit in terms of distance from the cab.

Gordon_Hose

macman wrote: »

With FTTC, the critical distance is cab to property, not exchange to property. If you are only getting 9-10Mbps on FTTC, then you must be at the limit in terms of distance from the cab.

If you were only getting 1Mbps on ADSL then 9-10Mbps is a decent uplift lol

bryanb

macman wrote: »

With FTTC, the critical distance is cab to property, not exchange to property. If you are only getting 9-10Mbps on FTTC, then you must be at the limit in terms of distance from the cab.

Well that's what I'm getting, I'm 200m from the cabinet. Had the copper section of our line checked out recently when the phone died. One dry joint re-soldered

Edit. Perhaps I should add thet I haven't signed up for any whizzbang service. I'm just on the cheapo Plusnet. The 6mb uplift came as a pleasant surprise when they installed fibre.

yangptangkipperbang

Buzby wrote: »

...................don't believe the hype!

No...........BT told me that I would get 64mbs, I didn't............I got 74 !! :D

(BUT..........the in service date ran 3 months late)

kwikbreaks

Obviously there will need to be some new kit in the exchange which I'm guessing they must do first.

The stages you can watch happening are to install the cabinets, run fibre to them, link the new cabinet to the existing phone cabinet, power up the new cabinet.

In my own area it all happened in that sequence. Once the cabinet was powered - you can hear it if the street is quiet it can come quite quickly. In my area they were taking orders a month after my nearest cabinet was powered up.

They won't declare an exchange enabled until it has at least 10 cabinets hooked up but I think they start selling as soon as any given cabinet is working and they've updated their database to accept orders for lines on it.

duchy

Mine jumped from June 2012 to March 2012 with no warning -the biggest problem was the shortage of trained fibre engineers to do the home visit.

Peterjones

Sounds like it should be on its way then, give the experience of what people are saying here. I was thinking that 2014 seemed a long way away if they were doing all the work now.

I will have to go and have a listen to see if the cabinet is powered .... sad I know!

kwikbreaks

Sadder - mine was on a busy road so I couldn't hear and took along a LED/LCD based mains tester which showed me the little lighting mark to say it was powered.

Sadder still - the BT database had omitted all the houses fed from my pole so I had to go through the BT CEO office to get it fixed before I could order.

Saddest of all - The install was set up as a two part job - install phone line then later same day Infinity. The Infinity portion was a no-show and they gave me a follow up date three weeks later. I cancelled and stayed on cable which was performing OK again by then.

macman

Gordon_Hose wrote: »

If you were only getting 1Mbps on ADSL then 9-10Mbps is a decent uplift lol

Indeed it is, but they said they were already getting 3-4Mbps on ADSL, not 1Mbps.

kwikbreaks

macman wrote: »

If you are only getting 9-10Mbps on FTTC, then you must be at the limit in terms of distance from the cab.

Agreed - I thought they wouldn't install Infinity at all if they couldn't guarantee 15Mbps - I think they will still supply it as BT Fibre or somesuch name but I've never seen any posts from somebody who has that.

My house is 300m from the cabinet that feeds it with a 350m cable run I think the line installer said and BT had promised something around 60Mbps iirc.