No I live in a different Village - Up hill. However a second line to the cabinet might solve the problem.
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Yes there was a connection fee. 40+VAT I think.

Edited by philippercival (Mon 05-Sep-11 23:11:48)

In reply to a post by philippercival:

No I live in a different Village - Up hill. However a second line to the cabinet might solve the problem.
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Yes there was a connection fee. 40+VAT I think.

I have been told that it may cost thousands???? but the cainet is 200 yards from the FTTC cabinet and the cables run past each other up the front street, the cable ducts pass each other right outside the FTTC cabinet, so im sure they could do something. I filled an online form out on the openreach website, they say they are going to investigate and let me know within 5 days, that was 7 days ago!!!

oh and you must live up the Q!!! Hill

Begins with K.

Another thought. About a year ago my connections with 2 different ISPs began to slow down. There were many investigations and fault reports over a period of three months. It ended up with something called the "Advanced Fault Team" at BT, who finally said they could do nothing as the problem was congestion on the necox exchange.

Luckily Cable and wireless fitted their equipment in the exchange about then, so Vivaciti on of my ISPs converted their connection to one through I think a company called Surfwise who used the LLU equipment rather than the BT stuff.

My download speed immediately went from about 1.4-1.8 up to 3.4 and upload speeds improved as well. Also because it was LLU I no longer had to suffer hits to my profile due to the frequent disconnections as according to Vivacity they do their profiles in a different way.

I see from Sam knows that Nexoc now has a 2nd LLU company. The advantage with the Vivacity connection was the one month notice contract.

If you get no change from switching to a cabinet, then maybe going LLU may improve things a bit.

In reply to a post by adebov:

If your line goes direct to an exchange (i.e. not via a street cabinet) unfortunately you can't get FTTC (BT Openreach are only installing the fibre equipment in street cabinets)

It's no doubt a dumb question... why can't the guts from a fibre street cabinet be installed in the exchange?

It's no doubt a dumb question... why can't the guts from a fibre street cabinet be installed in the exchange?

Well it could, (it already is, in way, thats how normal BB works) but the small numbers of premises served by these EO set ups is very small in relation to the set up cost.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

Well it could, (it already is, in way, thats how normal BB works) but the small numbers of premises served by these EO set ups is very small in relation to the set up cost.

And I thought it was prohibited by the ANFP (Access Network Frequency Plan) ??

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In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

Well it could, (it already is, in way, thats how normal BB works) but the small numbers of premises served by these EO set ups is very small in relation to the set up cost.

And I thought it was prohibited by the ANFP (Access Network Frequency Plan) ??

So why would they install my estate direct to the exchange????? because they had no space??? dunno... at the time before the FTTC install i could get a fantastic speed for the area 7Mb but now compared to the new 40/10 service im at the bottom!!!

So its 3 weeks now after i posted a request to BT to come and survey for switching me to an fttc cabinet, i got a reply saying we will be in touch after 5 working days and still nothing. I have resent the request even replied to their email and still no reply...... [censored] do i do now???

Well it could, (it already is, in way, thats how normal BB works) but the small numbers of premises served by these EO set ups is very small in relation to the set up cost.

How many is "very small"? I live on a development in central London situated between The Oval and Camberwell Green with 80 odd dwellings. All lines on the development are EO lines to the Vauhall (WRVAUX) exchange 2+ km away. I realise that 80 isn't that many but it is a significant cluster and I would expect there to be other EO lines on the exchange. Overall I would expect EO lines to make up at least 1-2% of the lines on the WRVAUX exchange

What is becoming increasingly frustrating is that all the surrounding PCPs have been FTTC enabled for some time.

Thats how peed off i feel, its litrally 100m away!!!!!! [censored]!!!!