One just up the road from my house (But luckily not the one I am connected to) has had 2 of those PCP extension pods on it (One on either side). It serves around 722 properties (According to Codelook) and so the demand is very high. Likely this cabinet is also in high demand.

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One just up the road from my house (But luckily not the one I am connected to) has had 2 of those PCP extension pods on it (One on either side). It serves around 722 properties (According to Codelook) and so the demand is very high. Likely this cabinet is also in high demand.

You say "But luckily not the one I am connected to" does the amount of connections to a cabinet reduce the speeds for all connected to it?

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Probably the wrong person to answer as I have little knowledge on this, someone to correct me would be great.

A cabinet that becomes full can take a long time for extensions to be fitted. A customer wanting to change ISP could end up going from an 80/20 FTTC connection to ~1mb ADSL for days/weeks/months etc. while either someone else ceases their FTTC connection or a PCP extension is fitted (Sometimes a whole other PCP cabinet is built next to it too). Which when price-hikes are always happening with the likes of TalkTalk, Sky, BT etc. you sometimes have no other choice but to switch.

I could be wrong but I believe Crosstalk could also be an issue on cabinets with high VDSL uptake.

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Lots of VoIP and maybe just one landline to give access when there is no power

I am probably going to kick myself for asking but as there are no new houses/businesses being built in the area why would they add the pod?

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It�s just an extension pod for VDSL2 tie pairs. The existing tie pairs to the fibre cabinet must be nearly full or full so they�re adding capacity so that more customers can go on to FTTC.

Morning Ian

Is there a conventional FTTC Cabinet near-by, linked conventionally by U/G cables to the PCP 19?

Yes, you can see it in this older Google Maps picture here.

In reply to a post by tomse43:

Probably the wrong person to answer as I have little knowledge on this, someone to correct me would be great.

A cabinet that becomes full can take a long time for extensions to be fitted. A customer wanting to change ISP could end up going from an 80/20 FTTC connection to ~1mb ADSL for days/weeks/months etc. while either someone else ceases their FTTC connection or a PCP extension is fitted (Sometimes a whole other PCP cabinet is built next to it too). Which when price-hikes are always happening with the likes of TalkTalk, Sky, BT etc. you sometimes have no other choice but to switch.

I could be wrong but I believe Crosstalk could also be an issue on cabinets with high VDSL uptake.

Thanks for explaining.

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In reply to a post by Chippy_Tea_:

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Lots of VoIP and maybe just one landline to give access when there is no power

I am probably going to kick myself for asking but as there are no new houses/businesses being built in the area why would they add the pod?

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It�s just an extension pod for VDSL2 tie pairs. The existing tie pairs to the fibre cabinet must be nearly full or full so they�re adding capacity so that more customers can go on to FTTC.

Thanks for explaining.

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In reply to a post by Icaras:

Firstly the company doesn�t really work like that, tends to be more reactive than proactive. Secondly-how many lines do you think a hotel would need? Only a few I�d have thought.

A hotel is probably going to use ISDN for telephony I would imagine. They aren't going to have a whole bunch of separate pairs from a PCP.

Could even use SIP via a third party via EFM / xDSL.

Every hotel I've done IT work in is either leased line (or EFM/FTTC) and SIP over the data connection.

usually with a couple of PSTN lines as backup for voice and ADSL as backup for data.

In fact, I'm away to spend the rest of this week staying in a hotel to install a leased line, SIP and wifi coverage for the hotel and all of the grounds