Fibre path

I recently had FTTP installed. My local exchange is a tiny rural one - so small, I've never been able to find it despite knowing the location on Google Maps. It's Slaley in Northumberland, NESLY. I have heard that FTTP fibre paths might not go to a small exchange but rather to a larger exchange.

So, in the spirit of nothing more than idle curiosity, how could I find out where my fibre connection goes?

It runs on poles for half a mile then disappears underground so there's no clue there.

could the exchange be the building near the phone box and postbox and next to the shop. as to the fibre route ???

Reckon exchange is here

https://www.google.com/maps/@54.9141287,-2.043193,3a...

well spotted, I didn't see that

In reply to a post by partial:

Reckon exchange is here

https://www.google.com/maps/@54.9141287,-2.043193,3a...

Amazing spot.

In reply to a post by threelegs:

could the exchange be the building near the phone box and postbox and next to the shop. as to the fibre route ???

Well, that looks favourite. I'd never spotted that building as ten years of vegetation now obscures it.

I missed out a key point. I live about a mile or so north in a cluster of houses which got dismal ADSL due to 3-4 miles of mixed copper and aluminium, hence FTTP to a cluster of about 30 houses a few months ago. The village as shown on streetview actually has FTTC although I can't see the cabinet on streetview. Field trip required...

So, my fibre runs along a road which intercepts a main road (or as close to main as you get round here) along which I'm fairly sure that the fibre serving the Slaley exchange runs. So, my connection could turn left towards the local exchange or right towards a much bigger exchange and that's what I'm curious about.

It might turn towards a small exchange but it will certainly not be that exchange where it terminates.

Far more likely to be going to the larger one you mention, or maybe an even bigger one somewhere else. One of the main points about FTTP is that the signal can travel miles, unlike copper wire broadband signals.

Small exchanges will cease to exist once phone services over copper are replaced by phone services over the fibre. For years now many exchanges that have FTTC only house the ADSLx and PSTN phone lines. It wasn�t cost-effective or even possible to fit the equipment in them.

The FTTC cabinets by the phone cabinets are very often fed by a larger exchange elsewhere. Broadband and phone are merged and spilt in the FTTC cabinets, depending on direction. As FTTP spreads, even the FTTC cabinets will disappear. And at some point, the phone cabinets.

Hexham most likely handover exchange

As Andrew has said I believe your fibre will eventually terminate in Hexham.

My parents live in the same area but are on the other side of the Linnels Bridge so are stuck with 1-2Mb ADSL. I have been following the rollout of Fibre in the area, last summer Fibre was strung along the B6306 from the junction with the B6307 heading towards Slaley past the sawmill and hooking up the houses along the way.

There is still a coil of fibre unterminated on a pole by the junction of North Road (I think).

Prior to this summers activity the only fibre I had seen was to a private house heading from Slaley towards the Traveller's rest which must have been Fibre On Demand.

The village as shown on streetview actually has FTTC although I can't see the cabinet on streetview. Field trip required...

Start near the exchange..... It will be near there.!