Broadband question

usefulmale

Openreach are in the process of laying fibre to the cabinet here. The broadband here is fairly slow. If half the people served by the cabinet get fibre broadband, will the remaining half left on the old copper broadband see any increase in speed?

bengalknights

That would depend on who provides them and how degraded there line is

If there all with same broadband same supplier then probably not

onomatopoeia99

ADSL is usually slow because of the length / quality of the cables back to the exchange, therefore people moving to FTTC will have no effect on those remaining on ADSL.

Robisere

I can only refer to my own FTTC experience when the government's Rural Broadband Initiative came through our rural village, some 3 miles from Louth town.

There is a "Superfast" (pause for hollow laugh) cabinet about 500 meters up the road from me, towards Louth. My village is much larger than the two small hamlets behind us, but that is where the larger homes and wealthier peeps are domiciled. Guess where the cable went? - Yep, up to the hamlets, around in a rough semi-circle, back to the lower end of the village from our Close, then up to us. A BT Openreach engineer informed me that there is about 1.5 km of copper between the cabinet and my line. I get a max of 7.5 Mbps down, 0.5 upload. I have a wealthy but very good friend in one of the hamlets, who gets 76 and 20.

That is not my resentment at the wealthy speaking: I don't give a damn how much bigger another person's home or income is than my own. No, I resent the picture that BT tries to paint of "Superfast Broadband availability", and the fact that the sum one person pays for a service, is the same as another person pays, for a significantly worse service.

Any input from a BT operative here, must avoid the usual platitudes that are always trotted out, such as "..dependent upon location..." etc, etc. That's so much animal exhaust, who actually believes it?

Bitter, moi? Mais certainment, mon vieux!

rusty_f

Robisere wrote: »

I can only refer to my own FTTC experience when the government's Rural Broadband Initiative came through our rural village, some 3 miles from Louth town.

There is a "Superfast" (pause for hollow laugh) cabinet about 500 meters up the road from me, towards Louth. My village is much larger than the two small hamlets behind us, but that is where the larger homes and wealthier peeps are domiciled. Guess where the cable went? - Yep, up to the hamlets, around in a rough semi-circle, back to the lower end of the village from our Close, then up to us. A BT Openreach engineer informed me that there is about 1.5 km of copper between the cabinet and my line. I get a max of 7.5 Mbps down, 0.5 upload. I have a wealthy but very good friend in one of the hamlets, who gets 76 and 20.

That is not my resentment at the wealthy speaking: I don't give a damn how much bigger another person's home or income is than my own. No, I resent the picture that BT tries to paint of "Superfast Broadband availability", and the fact that the sum one person pays for a service, is the same as another person pays, for a significantly worse service.

Any input from a BT operative here, must avoid the usual platitudes that are always trotted out, such as "..dependent upon location..." etc, etc. That's so much animal exhaust, who actually believes it?

Bitter, moi? Mais certainment, mon vieux!

Whilst I sympathise with this issue (I've had a similar problem where I used to liv[e), Openreach will have simply paired the fibre cabinet with an existing copper cabinet. If your line takes a circuitous route to the cabinet, nothing has changed and it would have followed that route even before that cabinet was installed.

AndyPK

Your lucky to get 7mbps. Do you pay for fibre or asdl ?

I'm in a large town and get 1mbps asdl
3 miles from exchange iirc.

Chino

Robisere wrote: »

No, I resent the picture that BT tries to paint of "Superfast Broadband availability", and the fact that the sum one person pays for a service, is the same as another person pays, for a significantly worse service.

Yes, I agree, it's not fair.

I live in a densely-populated urban area for which the per-domicile cost of provisioning and maintaining the area with FTTC is much less than your area, yet you are charged no more for FTTC than I am.

AndyPK

Lol

I guess this is why we still pay line rental for voice calls.

JJ_Egan

No you pay line rental for the data line .