Fibre available

50Twuncle

According to BTwholesale.com- My local cabinet has been fibre enabled - thanks very much for telling me - BT - I had been waiting for 3 years since they started upgrading my area !
Needless to say, I am looking forwards to at least 40Mb rather than a dodgy max 3Mb speed
The site mentions being limited in speed by "bridge taps" and "copper line conditions" - by which I am assuming they mean line sharing and copper wires to the cabinet - both are not an issue - since we were removed from a line share, 2 years ago and a new wire was strung up across the road to the cabinet (40 yards away) at the same time ..
So I can see great improvement in line speed ...
Next problem - do I stay with TTbusiness or move ISP's ?

Roland_Sausage

50Twuncle wrote: »

According to BTwholesale.com- My local cabinet has been fibre enabled - thanks very much for telling me - BT - I had been waiting for 3 years since they started upgrading my area !
Needless to say, I am looking forwards to at least 40Mb rather than a dodgy max 3Mb speed
The site mentions being limited in speed by "bridge taps" and "copper line conditions" - by which I am assuming they mean line sharing and copper wires to the cabinet - both are not an issue - since we were removed from a line share, 2 years ago and a new wire was strung up across the road to the cabinet (40 yards away) at the same time ..
So I can see great improvement in line speed ...
Next problem - do I stay with TTbusiness or move ISP's ?

In this context, a bridge tap is where the line splits before your master socket, usually (but not always) inside the house.

If you have a master socket as the first connection on the line, with extensions coming out of this then it is fine.

If the line splits at a central point in the loft (for example) then is distributed to various sockets throughout the house from there, then you have a bridge tap and this can impact on speed.

TadleyBaggie

50Twuncle wrote: »

According to BTwholesale.com- My local cabinet has been fibre enabled - thanks very much for telling me - BT

50Twuncle wrote: »

Next problem - do I stay with TTbusiness or move ISP's ?

So you are with Talk Talk, so why do you blame BT?

baby_frogmella

50Twuncle wrote: »

Next problem - do I stay with TTbusiness or move ISP's ?

I moved from TT residential to TT business when my cab became fibre enabled and i have to say the service is fab. 75/18 meg speeds day & night, top class Warrington based phone support and as good as the likes of zen, idnet, aaisp etc but without eyewatering prices.

50Twuncle

TadleyBaggie wrote: »

So you are with Talk Talk, so why do you blame BT?

Because BT are responsible for the hardware and according to an e-mail received from them, 6 months ago - we were not going to be upgraded in the near future !!
The only way that I discovered that we had been was a look at the Wholesale website - had I not checked, we would never have known !!

50Twuncle

Roland_Sausage wrote: »

In this context, a bridge tap is where the line splits before your master socket, usually (but not always) inside the house.

If you have a master socket as the first connection on the line, with extensions coming out of this then it is fine.

If the line splits at a central point in the loft (for example) then is distributed to various sockets throughout the house from there, then you have a bridge tap and this can impact on speed.

Just the one socket - thanks.

TadleyBaggie

50Twuncle wrote: »

Because BT are responsible for the hardware

Nope. That's BT Openreach, who are a separate company that does not deal with consumers.

50Twuncle

TadleyBaggie wrote: »

Nope. That's BT Openreach, who are a separate company that does not deal with consumers.

Thats who I meant - but since openreach do not respond to queries.......

flashg67

You're not alone -I signed up to the 'keep me updated' link with as many ISPs and fibre checking sites as I could and have still to be told I can get fibre by anyone. it was only checking myself that I found out it is available.

nick-nick

I found out about Fibre when I kept seeing a lot of BT vans and a nice new green box at the end of the street. I had signed up to all of the "keep me informed" things but have now had it for about 7 months and still not been told about it...

You would think BT would do a flyer drop on the area once it is live to let people know about it.

flashg67

nick-nick wrote: »

You would think BT would do a flyer drop on the area once it is live to let people know about it.

Agreed - I too got all excited by the new green cabinet. I did receive two flyers, but it wasn't showing available for a month after they came through the door...