Understanding the cables

sevenhills

Last year I upgraded to a faster broadband, which did seem faster, I always just bought the cheapest before. Thinking that its the same cables, so just get the cheapest.

When I upgraded, they installed a new cable to the bedroom, as that was where it was used most. So I had a faster cable coming from the telegraph pole to the bedroom and the standard cable going from the telegraph pole to a room downstairs.

And from today, I transfered to Plusnet and the router would not work in the bedroom, so they sent us a new router. My lodger contected up the new router, he said it doesnt work in the bedroom, but it works on the bog standard BB downstairs.

Speeds seem ok so far, I did a speed test and it was 35mb download and 9mb upload. Is the new cable in the bedroom to faster BB or is it all the same?

brewerdave

Sounds like you had full fibre (FTTP) to the bedroom !     Plusnet do not supply that currently, so have provisioned you with FTTC on the old phone line !!!

ciderboy2009

Do you have a white box fitted to the wall in the bedroom where the cable comes in that's plugged in to power?  If so then that's FTTP as mentioned by brewerdave.

If not then who was your old supplier?

JJ_Egan

Who supplied previous to transfer at a guess it was BT FTTP .

sevenhills

ciderboy2009 said:

Do you have a white box fitted to the wall in the bedroom where the cable comes in that's plugged in to power?  If so then that's FTTP as mentioned by brewerdave.
If not then who was your old supplier?

Yes, it was BT before, its now Plusnet. I prefer it being downstairs, but I didnt realise when I signed up, it could be either full fibre or bog standard.

I am thinking that I could have gone for the cheapest.

ciderboy2009

It sounds like you've probably downgraded from FTTP (fibre all the way to your house) to FTTC (fibre to your local cabinet and then the old copper line from there to your house).

The main difference to the two is the speed - FTTP has a max download speed of 900mbs whereas FTTC is normally a max around 76mbs.

Having said that, as long as you're happy with 35mbs then you'll probably be fine.  As mentianed by brewerdave, Plusnet do not have an FTTP offering (yet) so FTTC was the best speed they could offer you.