Two types of fibre deployed

FTTP - does not touch the phone line/copper
FTTC - intercepts and uses the copper at the closest cabinet to a property

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

FTTC - intercepts and uses the copper at the closest cabinet to a property

Shouldn't that be:

FTTC - intercepts and uses the copper from the cabinet currently feeding a property

?

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

FTTP requires no upgrades to the cabinet, the fibre is feed through ducting all the way from the exchange, it never touches your telephone line, other than perhaps sharing some of the ducting.

Do they do ANYTHING at all to the copper while installing the cabs/fibre ect? i ask because ever since they started work on installing the cabs in the local area my sky adsl has resinced every night

The did round my way because the main copper runs along the west side of the main road and then cuts across to the PCP on the other side of the road. This PCP serves addresses down streets along both sides of the road. For the roads on the west side of the street, the lines came back across the road into a duct box and then onto further duct boxes and up various poles.

What OR did when they installed the FTTC cabinet was to separate out the line for the east and west side of the road, leaving the east lines connected to the old PCP and put in a new PCP for the west lines.

The upside, as I live on the west side, is that my ADSL router reports a 2dB reduction in downstream attenuation and syncs about 1.8Mbps higher than it used to. Just waiting until June/July when hopefully I can order fibre

Since you are on a new development the cabinet was proably not included in OR plans when they first enabled the area, it can likely appear in future plans.

http://g.co/maps/ng2q5

Is your phone cabinet, new build estates do appear later on in the rollout.

Edited by deleted (Wed 18-Apr-12 23:50:34)

Thank you ccxo, how do I find out when in the roll out by cabinet will be done. I see lots of people on here talking about scheduled dates but don't know how to find mine.

If it helps I just drove past my cabinet and it is actually number 36 so {SDHRLY}{P36} presumably? This does not appear at all on the spreadsheet I have access to though...

Until a new version of the spreadsheet is realease their is no way of knowing when and if your cabinet is planned.

At current the lines connected to cab 36 are only a small % of the postcode lines as most go to cabinet 34 which has been planned and likely enabled for FTTC.

All you can do at this stage is sit and wait to see what happens.

With the other section of the development planned to recieve FTTP have you spoke to the developers to find out if that will made avalaible to the exisitng properties?

Thank you again ccxo

I have now contacted the developers to ask that very question.

Cheers

Tim

Hi arg0naut,

I am moving into your area soon and will be connected to cab 76 but cannot find where it is, only where 56 is. Could you let me know what road it is on so i can keep looking!

Cab 76 is on Sonora just to the right of the postbox.

http://g.co/maps/hqcnf

Will you be moving onto the just built in the last six months or the older existing properties.
I am unsure as to which way the new properties are fed. I will be flyering all the residents in the next few weeks as we still need support, even tho Openreach have said Phase 9A - Dec12-Apr13. It may never happen unless we get enough people interested.

I have the list of addresses that are currently on Cab76, exceptions are as stated the very new ones by the shops, Anatase Close(2% fed by a cab that isn't getting Fibre). Some but not all Emerald & Moonstone are already on a Cab that has Fibre. The rest I have a list for.
If you want to PM me your postcode and house number. I can let you know what Cab its on and whether it has Fibre or not. To be honest the average speed varies on ADSL here between 1Mb & 2,5Mb.

Thanks arg0naut, sent you a pm.

Not sure if i will be on cab76 as can only check with the postcode of the home opposite as mine is too new for the old spreadsheet.

Hope a new spreadsheet is out soon so i can check or suppose when i move in, i could ask the bt person what cab im on. Hope its 54!

fttc checker