Bt fibre

JEN22

Having BT INFINITY installed 8 Feb. BT are sending an engineer out a week before to survey the house. It right next to a telegraph pole will the fibre be connected to this? The area is very rural. They are on about putting a box on the house on the outside will this be connected to he pole?

GunJack

JEN22 wrote: »

Having BT INFINITY installed 8 Feb. BT are sending an engineer out a week before to survey the house. It right next to a telegraph pole will the fibre be connected to this? The area is very rural. They are on about putting a box on the house on the outside will this be connected to he pole?

Several things here:-

1. If FTTC (fibre to the cabinet)the fibre will be connected not to the pole, but to the PCP (the green cabinet on the street (somewhere) that lots of local lines terminate in. If FTTC, there will be a separate green cab next to the PCP which will be the DSLAM cab that the fibre terminates in, which is then jumper-cabled over to the main PCP.

2. The external box you refer to is probably one of the new-ish External Master Sockets, so the demarcation point between BT Openreach's responsibility (i.e. the line) and your property (your internal phone wiring, sockets, etc.). If not it could be a simple junction box.

3. If it's a FTTP (fibre to the premesis), although highly unlikely, then the fibre will be to the pole and then down to your house.

Neil_Jones

When I had Fibre first installed BT came, did some work on the exchange and then swapped my master socket for one with a built-in filter. That was eight years ago.

When my parents moved to Fibre from broadband, BT didn't go there or the exchange or do any work, the provider just sent a router and it still connects to the phone line via a regular filter. That was a year ago.

My parents estate is an older one than where I am and uses a traditional telegraph pole whereas there isn't one of those where I am (there is a green box but I'm not connected to that one but one further away. Apparently).

I suppose it depends on how the area was cabled together as to what BT will do. The most likely scenario is a replacement socket though.

HoofeHearted

Enter your phone number here
https://www.dslchecker.bt.com/
and see what speed they are predicting for you.

macman

Do you already have a working landline with another service on it (presumably ADSL)? If so, nothing should be necessary to be done at the property, it'll simply be connected at the exchange and the street cab to a fibre line. From then on the line will be the same old copper twisted pair.
If the above is the case, I cannot see why OR are doing a survey prior to install.

Uxb

It sounds to me like a full FTTP install.

The master intermediate socket idea on the outside of the house has been abandoned for copper installs...seemed to cause more trouble than it was worth I guess.
I thought these outside boxes are only now used for full FTTP.
http://image.net-code.co.uk/user~/paulkirby/FTTP-Consumer-Splice-Point-500x500.jpg

macman

FTTP install in a 'very rural' area?

GunJack

macman wrote: »

FTTP install in a 'very rural' area?

my thoughts exactly...cost-prohibitive...

buglawton

On this basis, I wonder how mains water and electricity ever got connected or how a tarmac road arrived at it.

Harold.Finch

We have FTTP which was fitted over a year ago. We have the same box as shown above fitted to our property.

We are totally rural and were very lucky to get it because we are en-route to a small village that was being provided. Luckily for us Openreach placed a number of fibre manifolds along our road on their way to the village.

Lucky, yes. Cost effective, no, as we seem to be the only connection to the manifold!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NjzjF-aqFbriOGPIjTVz07PdijfUVTXl/view?usp=sharing

rsvtoddy

FTTP in a very rural area is perfectly possible - I live in a small village of about 40 houses in the N Yorks moors and we got FTTP last year.