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Soon the long awaited FTTC should be arriving in our village curtsy of the Bedfordshire BDUK project. After years of a 1.2mb connection the idea of FTTC to the street cabinet just a couple of hundred yards up the road was a exciting prospect, would we hit max speed?
When the map was published last year was a bit puzzled as our road was at the edge of FTTC area, the next road along would not get it. Couple of weeks back new underground copper was laid to our pole, thats good I thought they are making a torough job of it.
Yesterday as I walked to the polling station I noticed our street cabinet had been removed, most odd, now I've realised what has happened, all the lines in our village have been taken back to the cabinet in next village, we will be on the end of a long copper line so will proboly get 15mb, and being LLU with TalkTalk can expect to pay a premium of £10 per month for this,.
Damn and blast, it seems the infrastructure has been put in place so that in years to come we will be left behind again.
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Are you sure they've actually removed your cabinet and re-routed your lines? This doesn't make sense, it seems highly unlikely. If you spot an Openreach engineer as them what is going on.
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Possibly to meet the 2Mbit/s 'USO' but cheaper than doing FTTC.
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Are you sure they've actually removed your cabinet and re-routed your lines? This doesn't make sense, it seems highly unlikely. If you spot an Openreach engineer as them what is going on.
Yep cabinet has gone, I can trace where the cable was replaced back to the empty spot, now appears to just be an underground chamber. The cable had been replaced by contractors, the next day openreach where working outside my house as all the houses in next road had been cut off, unfortunatly I hadn't realised at that time the cabinet had gone, I've not as yet found the one we're now conected to,but there doesn't appear to be any cabinets in our village, shall have a scout around this afternoon. Seems very shortsighted to me.
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It might have been a SCP (Secondary connection point) cabinet and not a full PCP cabinet.
(like Binfield Heath village which was served by two SCP's)
Edited by deleted (Sat 24-May-14 14:07:03)
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Possibly to meet the 2Mbit/s 'USO' but cheaper than doing FTTC.
I'm not sure how they will manage that, we are on 1.2mb, those in next road will be even less
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Seems very shortsighted to me.
It could be that the re-arrangement of the copper makes for enough properties to make one PCP viable, where two separate PCPs would have been left out.
Do you know what cabinet no. the BT Wholsale DSL checker used to say for your line, compared to now? The cabinet should be in the top line of the result.
Usually, I'd point you at http://www.dslchecker.bt.com/ to check phone number.
However, that won't work with a TalkTalk LLU number, so I'll point you at this address checker instead: http://www.dslchecker.bt.com/adsl/ADSLChecker.address
Don't use the postcode checker (it gives bad results), but you can put just the postcode into the address checker, then it gives you a list of addresses to select from.
Also, do you know what number cabinet was painted on the removed cabinet? Perhaps it is visible on an old picture from Google streetview.
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Presumably by providing FTTC from the other cabinet if that's what's happened.
FTTC dosnt have to be the precursor for all future Broadband
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Interesting thought.
In the North Yorkshire project, the budget allocated for the USC portion of work means that, ironically, it costs more per home for the USC component than the cost per home for the SFBB component.
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Seems very shortsighted to me.
However, that won't work with a TalkTalk LLU number, so I'll point you at this address checker instead: http://www.dslchecker.bt.com/adsl/ADSLChecker.address
Can't get that to work, but I've tracked down the new cabinet which still has barriers around it. Fortunatly they have slightly diverted from going straight to the nabouring village, and placed the cabinet between us, it still leaves around 1.25miles of copper to my house, this hopefully will give at least a 10 fold increase, but then going from dial up to 512kb gave this which at the time seemed great but nowadays would be seen by most as a joke.
I'll be happy to be able to stream iplayer etc, but what of a couple of years time when streaming 4k tv or such like will be the norm?
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Sorry - that URL only seems to work when you arrive at it from another page. The one posted more recently works anytime.
it still leaves around 1.25miles of copper to my house,
That could still be borderline for giving you a service that would be considered decent.
You have to hope that when they put in the new copper cable, they did so with 0.9mm copper, rather than 0.5mm. The resistance of that would be one-third of the norm, and you'd get better speeds at longer distances.
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burbie which village are you in
Edited by deleted (Sat 24-May-14 18:46:04)
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Don't worry about it.
Nobody is going to be laying down and getting rid of cabs.
It was prolly not BT plant.
If it was BT plant, It was prolly an old SCP pillar. it was prolly laid down years ago and empty.
I doubt it was BT plant as in my manor they don't lay down scps anymore and when they did, they never spent money removing the old shell.
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It'll be an SCP then rather than a PCP. Sounds like they've just replaced it with an underground jointbox instead.
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Don't worry about it.
Nobody is going to be laying down and getting rid of cabs.
It was prolly not BT plant.
If it was BT plant, It was prolly an old SCP pillar. it was prolly laid down years ago and empty.
I doubt it was BT plant as in my manor they don't lay down scps anymore and when they did, they never spent money removing the old shell.
Well last year when I was talking to a openreach engineer working on the cabinet it wasn't empty
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