Odd cab arrangement.

I'm due to get BT infinity 1 unlimited and BT TV at the end of the month, I'm currently on Sky LLU, broadband, phone calls and line rental.

I'm connected to cab 57, which is some 550 metres away, down the road, turn left. There is no fibre cabinet on this road at all. Cab 57 serves ~60% of our postcode.

Cab 24 which is some 800 metres away, down the road, turn right. This does have a fibre cab next to it. Cab 24 serves ~40% of our postcode.

The distance between the two cabs is roughly 450 metres.

I'm puzzled as to how I will be connected up, given the cab I'm connected to does not have a fibre cabinet

FTTC range A [clean] high - downstream 33 / low - downstream 23.7 / up high - 7.6 / up low 6.1

FTTC range A [impacted] high - downstream 26 / low - downstream 13.1 / up high - 7.1 / up low 4.1

How do you know you are connected to cab 57? Those estimates look much more like 800m than 550m. Is 57 what the checker you used says? Did you use the postcode option, or the full address option? The postcode one is useless when it is served by more than one cab.

Hi, the checker says 57, also a BT engineer told me last time I had a repair. I used the full address checker.

In that case it looks as though the FTTC cabinet for cab 57 may be further away from it than normal. It can be up to 100 cable metres, so could be in lots of places. Normally it is within 50 metres, and even then can be hard to find. Some have been reported as being the other side of walls.

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Interesting, thank you. I guess I'll find out for certain on the day.

Edit: I just checked an address opposite cab 57 and it says 80Mb... so that would rule out cab 24 I guess, intruiging fibre cab must be well hidden.

Edited by BeachBoy (Thu 16-Jan-14 12:39:50)

Good thinking . It's there somewhere, but the cable distance between you and it looks horrible. Unless perhaps you have aluminium between you and the phone cabinet. What do your ADSLx line stats look like?

I definitely do have aluminium in my line. adsl2 stats are 47dB attenuation 5023 sync 6dB margin.
My line has always been a bit underperforming, did sync for a brief time at over 7 Mb but that was a long time ago.

Right . That explains the low VDSL2 estimate then. Still a lot better than you have now.

Edited by RobertoS (Thu 16-Jan-14 16:24:40)

In reply to a post by BeachBoy:

I'm puzzled as to how I will be connected up, given the cab I'm connected to does not have a fibre cabinet

It could be in a neighbouring road, mine is.

e.g. this link to Google Maps street view - this is my normal cabinet (PCP) to the left of the picture, and you can see the FTTC cab round the corner and on the other side of the neighbouring road. (In this case you can see round the corner!)

http://goo.gl/maps/HVqGE

(Usefully Google went past about a week after the FTTC cab was stood, early August 2012).

Edit - better URL

Edited by jchamier (Thu 16-Jan-14 19:12:59)