EO lines can be of very varied line length and both physical distance from exchange

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

EO lines can be of very varied line length and both physical distance from exchange

I live in Cornwall and was on an EO until a cabinet was installed outside the exchange and my line was transferred to it. I am about 900 metres from the exchange and was getting around 18Mbps on ADSL2+. In April I was advised by BT that my line was now enabled for fibre with an estimated download speed of 26.5 Mbps down and 5.4 Mbps up. I changed over to BT Infinity on 19/04/13 and my speed started out at 21.8 Mbps down and 2.4 Mbps up, Profile was 22.11 Mbps. It has now gone down to around 20.00 Mbps down but upload is still the same, profile 20.24 Mbps. I expect it to go down again next week as I am having a new electric meter fitted and the power will be off for about 1/2 hour. I wish I'd stayed on ADSL2+!!

A single turn off before the meter work and a turn on again should not affect the DLM.

Speeds in the 20 to 24 Mbps are to be expected for a 900m D side (cab to home). You can return to ADSL2+ if you would rather have that of course.

Thanks for the info Mr Saffron.

If the line is connected directly to the exchange, then I presume the Op is pretty close to it

T'ain't always so. Got EO lines off Mortimer round here that go 8+ kilometres.

In reply to a post by WWWombat:

But London doesn't have a BDUK project...

And one hell of a lot of EO lines. Mine is one of a cluster of 75+, roughly 2Km from the exchange (WRVAUX) and no VM either.

Is this actually what they're doing for EO lines?! Putting a cab outside the exchange :/ as a getout from the regulations on VDSL2?

Why not just put a rack of VDSL ports *inside* the exchange?! What possible difference could ~10-30m of loop to a cab make? That would surely solve the EO problem for a lot of people (who aren't on really long loops, but neither will this).

Seems silly to me. Let me know what I am missing here.

Yeah, I've noticed the same. A lot of my friends are in the same situation, exchange enabled early on in the rollout but on EO lines with no Virgin media (which is horrendously spotty in London).

In reply to a post by mr_mojo:

Is this actually what they're doing for EO lines?! Putting a cab outside the exchange :/ as a getout from the regulations on VDSL2?

Why not just put a rack of VDSL ports *inside* the exchange?! What possible difference could ~10-30m of loop to a cab make? That would surely solve the EO problem for a lot of people (who aren't on really long loops, but neither will this).

Seems silly to me. Let me know what I am missing here.

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Edited by deleted (Tue 21-May-13 08:07:57)

I believe it's something to do with electrical interference regulation's, so they are not allowed to.

There is a little more information here.

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre/f/4240080-dir...

Edited by R0NSKI (Tue 21-May-13 10:17:12)