FTTP providers

Zellah

StevieD54 said:

JJ_Egan said:

Fibre as in FTTP or do you mean the old basic fibre .
Basic fibre runs only to the local street cabinet  , then the phone line takes over into the house from the pole .

Mmm, not sure.  I upgraded to fibre with BT last year (FTTP), but because our property is newer (no telegraph poles in the street), they used the same underground conduit to push the fibre through alongside the old phone line from pavement to house.  Could my parents have FTTP?  I don’t know.  How would Openreach get the wires into their bungalow?   But if they could only have ‘basic’, when you say “the phone line takes over”, doesn’t that negate the whole point of fibre? i.e. that last section being ‘old technology’

Check your parents address here (use 'address checker' if their phone no. isn't recognized)
https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com
If it says 'WBC FTTP' then your folks can order Openreach FTTP (native). As to how its deployed on properties, it usually takes the same entry route into the property as the copper. Openreach will simply make the entry hole bigger if the existing hole can't accommodate both the copper and fibre. Once the fibre has entered the property, then Openreach give you a choice of where you want the ONT box installed - can be almost anywhere in the home, subject to  distance limitations (30m from DP to ONT). But its not something to worry over, on the day of installation, the Openreach Engineer will take into account your parents wishes wrt cabling routes.

matelodave

Where I live my FTTP come from the pole across the road - there is a connectorised termination box at the top of the pole which feed up to eight subscribers (and seven are in use). My drop cable has both a copper pair and the optical fibre and replaced the existing drop cable.

The copper pair feeds the existing landline and the fibre is fed into the house and in my case the Optical Network Unit is located next to the fibre entry point. The ONU requires a mains supply as will your router.

You'll see if they are going to offer it via the poles, the Opical Termination box is quite distinctive and all our poles have a yellow optical fibre labels stapled to them

have a shufti here http://andysworld.org.uk/tag/fttp/ it's pretty much the same as ours (we've had it for over 30 months now so they might be doing something different nowadays) Our installation took around two hours and we went from less than 2mbits to 76mbits - pure joy

Which however was short lived when wo week later the water company managed to dig up the short bit of underground fibre cable feeding the poles. It then took a fortnight to get it back up and running again

StevieD54

Thanks both for the info.
Zellah, I did as you suggested and this is the result.  It means nothing to me 😂

StevieD54

matelodave, thanks for the link to Andy’s page, some of those photos will help me know what to look out for at my parents location.

Zellah

StevieD54 said:

Thanks both for the info.
Zellah, I did as you suggested and this is the result.  It means nothing to me 😂

Thanks. Unless your parents are willing to spend £1000s on FTTP On Demand, then the best they can get is VDSL (FTTC), not pure fibre (FTTP). But estimated FTTC speeds are very good, potentially the full 80/20 Mbps though of course they may decide to take out only the 40/10 Mbps tier on FTTC. 

JJ_Egan

Yes using the phone line is not the best but it was the quickest way at the time to increase Broadband speeds .

StevieD54

Thanks again Zellah.  So I’ve put their postcode/address into the Openreach website and the FTTC result is shown below.  Good news I think.  As you say, potentially 80Mbps.  And I assume, therefore, that FTTC means that the line from the cabinet/pole to their property remains the same, so little or no internal disruption?

Zellah

StevieD54 said:

Thanks again Zellah.  So I’ve put their postcode/address into the Openreach website and the FTTC result is shown below.  Good news I think.  As you say, potentially 80Mbps.  And I assume, therefore, that FTTC means that the line from the cabinet/pole to their property remains the same, so little or no internal disruption?

Correct, everything remains the same for a FTTC service.