Fibre to the cabinet BT

iniltous

JEN22 wrote: »

They said it was fibre to the cabinet. Open reach said they would have to run a new cable to the house yet I use an overhead copper cable at the moment. Im really confused.


I thought that they would just need to send me a new hub for fibre to the cabinet?


why would they need to run a new line for FTTC?

I would ask why if you already have a copper pair drop wire and it's FTTC , then why the need for a new dropwire and if a new dropwire is required it would usually replace the old one ( so old one removed and new one in the same position) , unless the existing dropwire is faulty why replace it ?
Having re read your posts, you said 'BT came out today' , presumably you mean Openreach, 'as BT to cabinet is different', this doesn't make much sense, but (and if it's the case you are lucky they are proceeding) if your property could be served from two DP's (distribution points , two different poles) one pole belonging to a fibre enabled cab, and one belonging to a cab that isn't fibre enabled, and the records had you incorrectly recorded on the wrong DP, perhaps to get you connected to the fibre enabled cab, they need to reroute your dropwire to the pole that is connected to the 'fibre' cab, so take down original dropwire to that pole , and install a new dropwire to the correct pole....just a theory though .
Openreach certainly wouldn't change it if not absolutely neccesary , so perhaps it is a 'routing' issue

JEN22

They said something about the wire off the pole is a telephone wire and at the moment my broadband is coming off that

Browntoa

May not be copper dropwire , there was a period when they used aluminium , there's still a legacy of that around

Thus explains the problems with aluminium

https://www.alphr.com/technology/1001604/does-your-bt-broadband-connection-pass-through-this

iniltous

JEN22 wrote: »

They said something about the wire off the pole is a telephone wire and at the moment my broadband is coming off that

But all wires are telephone wires, broadband is a service that is added to the telephone service ( when talking about ADSL and FTTC/VDSL) so that seems to be stating the obvious, if you have already have exchange based ADSL and change to cab based VDSL ( FTTC) , then the part of the network to your home is usually the same, the change is made at the fibre cab ( the broadband 'signal' is injected into your line at the cab instead if the exchange ) so no need to change the dropwire on overhead fed property's, if this part of the network needs changing (as in your individual case) then there must be a reason for it, but we still don't know why

Retrogamer

I've worked with FTTC broadband in the past in a technical support environment and i'm not sure why they need to change the cables.

All FTTC broadband uses a regular telephone cable / wires from the RDSLAM / PCP (Usually the green cabinets) towards the home.

techquest

It could be that the old dropwire is an aluminium type and the current policy, as I understand, is to remove all aluminium from their services, due to its poor transmission properties, and replace with either copper or fibre, as far as broadband is concerned. Aerial type fibre drop cables are available but have not heard of Openreach using them to the house as of yet. But stand corrected if they are.

Mister_G

Yes. OR are using fibre drops where there is fibre to the pole. They have a 32 way optical splitter mounted on the pole.

techquest

Guess Jen22 may not be aware that it doesn't matter what BT say, Openreach supply the hardware infrastructure, cables etc, that BT run its services on, they are separate companies, and BT cannot do anything about the way the have to be run, save inside the home or office, which BT do themselves..

AndyPK

Didn't know BT, fitted items inside?! That is openreach again???!!

JEN22

Im totally confused. It was open reach who came out and said the wire from the pole to the house would have to be replaced. I don't know why.


Buts its FTTC not home.


they also said a second engineer would have to come out and do something too


At the moment we only have copper broadband