Your PCP should have number 5 stencilled on it and your FTTC cab will be next to it. You may be able to see a tarmac-covered trench between the two.

Cool thanks ill have a look for that then around where I live, what is a pcp?

A green roadside cabinet.

The Primary Cross-connection Point (PCP) is the phone cabinet

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That depends on if its size is 10meg or 30meg

I was referring to throughput speed

"Numerous cabinets around" sounds like you may have Virgin Media (cable) available with higher speeds. Have a look at the pictures on this page.

Note that BT phone cabinets (PCPs) have a number on that is normally one or two digits, sometimes 3, there are a few 4-digit. VM have a long number stencilled on- eight or nine digits IIRC.

FTTC cabinets do not have a number. They are just within 50 metres or so of their associated PCP.

Well, the data gets transmitted at that speed, so the larger the data set, the slower it will be.

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Well, the data gets transmitted at that speed, so the larger the data set, the slower it will be.

I don't doubt it, but my point is that the time difference when loading web pages will be so negligible, it's irrelevant and as long as you have enough speed to download and cache quicker than you're watching, extra speed will make no difference.

Remember I mean for the vast majority of the population, not heavy users.

Edited by deleted (Wed 13-Jan-16 12:42:14)

The web page loading is much more about how the myriad of small files for the various .js elements and images are loaded.

Many websites with their large hero images could improve load times if they optimised the image, rather than just use a poorly compressed image, or were clever and served a different image depending on the device you are using.

Once above 10 Mbps roughly web page performance is really down to latency and DNS resolution times.

More is always nicer but when the biggest moan is that roll-outs are not fast enough and we need to push closer to 100% coverage - then using tech that will give 80 to 100 Mbps to everyone without fail is not going to happen.

The fact remains that if you have a 30Mb web page, it will take 1 second on a 30Mb connection and 3 seconds on a 10Mb connection - 3 times longer.