Nearby Cabinet. How to connect to it?

This house has a phone line. OK, it's switched off, but it is connected to the pole and thence to the cabinet, a bit over a kilometre away.

When we had FTTC over it, it gave speeds of between 25 and 32Mb down, 6 or 7 up, but over time it got slower and slower as more neighbours got FTTC.

In the end, I cancelled and went to mobile broadband, which is not quite as reliable, but far cheaper and usually quicker.

But there is a new(ish) fibre cabinet less than a hundred and fifty metres away. Using that wold be great.

I'd be happy to pay for a new line installation if I could connect to that, but something tells me that it isn't going to be possible to convince BT that this is a good idea: they'll just reconnect the old, long wire.

Is there any way to get a new line to the nearby cabinet?

In reply to a post by hoopla:

This house has a phone line. OK, it's switched off, but it is connected to the pole and thence to the cabinet, a bit over a kilometre away.

When we had FTTC over it, it gave speeds of between 25 and 32Mb down, 6 or 7 up, but over time it got slower and slower as more neighbours got FTTC.

In the end, I cancelled and went to mobile broadband, which is not quite as reliable, but far cheaper and usually quicker.

But there is a new(ish) fibre cabinet less than a hundred and fifty metres away. Using that wold be great.

I'd be happy to pay for a new line installation if I could connect to that, but something tells me that it isn't going to be possible to convince BT that this is a good idea: they'll just reconnect the old, long wire.

Is there any way to get a new line to the nearby cabinet?

Is it an infill cabinet? if so have your neighbours with broadband been connected to this new cabinet?

I don't know. Asking neighbours which cabinet they are connected to is probably going to make them think I'm talking politics!

The old cabinets that serve this village are both around a kilometre away, in either direction.

The new (within the last year or so) cabinet doesn't appear to have an allied phone cabinet, unless there's an underground one. But it is definitely a BT fibre cabinet.

I don't think there have been any new buildings in the area, so I guess it is maybe intended to help out more remote premises on long wires outside the village, or they had hit a capacity limit.

What exchange and cabinet does it tell you on the below checker when you search yours and your direct neighbours address? It may be an in full cabinet to bring premises far away from the initial cabinet over the 30Mbps threshold for funding.

https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL/...

I think it's a very slim chance.

Where I live I was on an exchange only line. They built an All in One (AIO) cabinet for the houses on the next street also exchange only lines. This new AIO cabinet is 280m from my house, yet they decided to save a few quid and use another newly built cabinet (erected for houses in the opposite direction of the village) and put my line through that. Thus my line is still over 1km away.

My simple brain thought surely they would chop in to the current cable at a street chamber a couple of hundred metres away and then pull the bulk cable back through and route through the existing ducting (as both streets meet at a junction 50m from my house on their way to the exchange).

Nope. Instead they put all 55 houses on my street 1km away.

Suppose it could be worse. Houses on one the other side of the road from the new AIO cabinet were wrote off, and they still go to the exchange as it's only 8 bungalows so I can assume the logic was ah, who cares.

I asked Openreach if there was anyway to have a line routed through this new cabinet. The answer was most certainly no.

Edited by gary333 (Mon 08-Jun-20 15:48:48)

In reply to a post by unknown101:

What exchange and cabinet does it tell you on the below checker when you search yours and your direct neighbours address? It may be an in full cabinet to bring premises far away from the initial cabinet over the 30Mbps threshold for funding.

https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL/...

CALDER VALLEY served by Cabinet 11
VDSL Range A (Clean) 30.4 18 6.6 4.2 15.2 Available Available
VDSL Range B (Impacted) 29.6 15.6 6.5 3.7 11.4

And those figures are probably about right for cabinet 11
Cabinet 17, on the other hand, would probably give 80

[later]
Yup. I checked using a house near that new cabinet, and it says
served by Cabinet 17
VDSL Range A (Clean) 80 79 20 19 74.1 Available Available
VDSL Range B (Impacted) 80 79 20 19 74

... but the houses either side of it are on Cabinet 11 and promised less than 30 at best

Edited by hoopla (Mon 08-Jun-20 17:14:06)

The good news is that the cell that gives good service from Three has come back on line this morning, after four months quiet (apart from a few hours in early May)
So I'm back to getting 40 down, 30 up using 4G.