Does anyone know yet?

Rik · Jul 21, 2009, 17:55:52

Swings and roundabouts.

zappaDPJ · Jul 21, 2009, 18:03:54

Quote from: Rik on Jul 21, 2009, 17:40:04
At 213m from the cabinet, if fibre ever reaches me, I will think all my Christmases have come at once, Bob.

Where I'm currently living, the distance from the back of my face plate to the cabinet is under 10m but that won't matter a jot if there's tennis on at Wimbledon. New balls please!

More seriously major sporting events are currently playing havoc with ISPs that haven't got the bandwidth to cope with it: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4009-online-cricket-and-golf-viewers-create-spike-in-skyplayer-traffic.html and since when did thinkbroadband become the BBC's policeman?

QuoteIt has been suggested that this traffic is mainly from sports fans watching live sports coverage whilst in the office--We would remind everyone that if you watch TV as it's broadcast, even through a PC, you need a TV License.

Glenn · Jul 21, 2009, 18:05:37

Zap, you may be 10m from a cabinet, but is it the one your phone is connected to?

Rik · Jul 21, 2009, 18:08:45

Quote from: zappaDPJ on Jul 21, 2009, 18:03:54
More seriously major sporting events are currently playing havoc with ISPs that haven't got the bandwidth to cope with it: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4009-online-cricket-and-golf-viewers-create-spike-in-skyplayer-traffic.html and since when did thinkbroadband become the BBC's policeman?

Few have, Zap, as to provide that kind of bandwidth is uneconomic.

bobleslie · Jul 21, 2009, 18:16:23

Quote from: Glenn on Jul 21, 2009, 18:05:37
Zap, you may be 10m from a cabinet, but is it the one your phone is connected to?

That's the problem, isn't it?

There are at least 5 cabinets I could be connected to, and those are just the one's I've seen.

zappaDPJ · Jul 21, 2009, 18:22:55

Quote from: Glenn on Jul 21, 2009, 18:05:37
Zap, you may be 10m from a cabinet, but is it the one your phone is connected to?

It is Glen although the actual cable goes up to the eaves, across to a telgraph pole and down into the pavement before returning underground to the cabinet which in reality makes the line length more like 50m

I know that's where my line goes because that's always the first port of call when the BT engineers have gone to try and find a fault. The same cabinet also houses the fibre, it was put in very recently to accommodate a massive new housing development of luxury flats.

Everything including the pair from the top of the pole all the way back to the exchange was replaced and I've been told I'm on the new equipment which makes me wonder why my WBC connection is so wretched

Rik · Jul 21, 2009, 18:25:59

Because we are talking about BT, Zap.

Colin Burns · Jul 22, 2009, 03:40:31

well i suppose i can always wonder which one i will get first

Full Sync ADSL

ADSL 2
FTTC

think ill hope out for 8mb as i dowt i will ever see ADSL 2 anytime soon and probably never FTTC

kinmel · Jul 22, 2009, 06:49:10

Quote from: Glenn on Jul 21, 2009, 17:46:18
I'm sure the last engineer I had visit, said my cabinet was in a manhole

I never knew that, I wondered where the street cabinet was for our estate because the nearest above ground cabinet is about a mile away.

Now I know, it is in the BT manhole at the end of my drive

So it's 11metres to the router, but will they ever have enough fibre to reach here ?

Lance · Jul 22, 2009, 07:53:43

My line goes to a man-hole type thing (a square BT labled one) but I know that is only the junction box. It then goes from there to a cabinet about 400 yards away.

bobleslie · Jul 24, 2009, 11:28:22

Here's the first FTTC installation.

Rik · Jul 24, 2009, 11:32:35

Not as impressive as I would have hoped, Bob.

bobleslie · Jul 24, 2009, 11:38:09

I didn't expect anything.

I expect that they'll 'manage' expectations, whilst they work out how to make some money out of the new technology.

Rik · Jul 24, 2009, 11:38:57

Cynic.

bobleslie · Jul 24, 2009, 11:40:19

Hanging around here too much!

Rik · Jul 24, 2009, 11:41:09

We do have that effect.

Gary · Jul 24, 2009, 11:51:03

Time to move to Paris or Japan I think

Rik · Jul 24, 2009, 11:52:07

We'll come and find you.

Gary · Jul 24, 2009, 11:56:03

Quote from: Rik on Jul 24, 2009, 11:52:07
We'll come and find you.

Sebby · Jul 24, 2009, 12:58:04

I'm still finding this whole FTTC concept bizarre. Why not replace copper cabling from the exchange to the cabinet rather than running it alongside? I'm sure they coudl install some kind of digital to anlogue converter in the cabinet for the final stretch.

Rik · Jul 24, 2009, 12:59:34

I thought that was what they were doing, in essence, Seb?

Sebby · Jul 24, 2009, 13:01:13

So did I, but if you think about it, it's engineer install, so it's not really what they're doing...

Rik · Jul 24, 2009, 13:03:37

AFAIK, that's just to fit a better than average filter at the end of the last few metres of copper. I wonder how long before there will be alternatives to the BT router?

Sebby · Jul 24, 2009, 13:05:46

Ah, fair enough. I'm sure there'll be alternatives available, although it shouldn't be so much of an issue - we tend to use different routers now to get our lines stable, which hopefully won't be a problem in the future.

Rik · Jul 24, 2009, 13:06:40

No, but I don't fancy being tied to BT managed hardware for too long.