Not always, friends on an exchange in Scotland are in a similar situation, however they have a line several hundred metres long.

80Mbit/s on FTTC, cabinet outside the exchange building

Yep .

It was basically a joke, as there was a second photo showing the two cabinets. I was suggesting those were both new and cabled to the village but the cottage the other side of the road still had a line under the road direct to the exchange.

Warped sense of humour, but stranger dafter things happen .

I was surprised to see the drop wire (for the property next door to the exchange called Tregarta) coming down the lane from Rumford.

Edit: Having done a little more research the estimated speeds are as follows

ADSL 2+ = Up to 17Mbps
VDSL = Up to 54.8Mbps (Clean High)

Edited by deleted (Tue 26-Nov-19 16:08:54)

My parent's place is the same. The exchange is pretty much at the bottom of their garden but the phone line is 1.2km long.

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That is a large one ... one we use at times: https://goo.gl/maps/nAJKweLibsR2br4W9

And the road is busy when the shot was taken, Royal Mail, car going the other way and Google Mapping car , often I can drive the 17 miles and maybe se one or two cars going the other way.

Exactly-and clearly that building is not big enough for much if any broadband equipment to be housed. It�ll have a tiny frame and a rack or 2 of system X/Y for voice. Does it have ADSL of any kind?

Yes, full ADSL services available from it.

Not much equipment needed as it only serves around 40 customers/lines! If the "free full fibre broadband" ever happens, a few of those will be costing the government £150k or more each!

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Not much equipment needed as it only serves around 40 customers/lines! If the "free full fibre broadband" ever happens, a few of those will be costing the government £150k or more each!

You reckon £6m to connect 40 customers? What per-km rate are you using?

Around £10-15k per mile and with some of those customers they are 10miles or more from a main exchange, not the shed, and often there is very little of a run that can be used for more than one customer.

I know of one who asked for a rough order of magnitude for FTTPoD and was told "potentially £150-200k and maybe more"

some of those customers they are 10miles or more from a main exchange, not the shed

Sure, but if they were doing the whole 40 properties then they'd stick a splitter and/or fibre aggregation node at the shed, or some other convenient location: they wouldn't run everyone back individually to the main exchange. I agree that deploying a single FTTPoD user would make no sense.

There's also been some talk of remote nodes to extend FTTP range - mentioned in second half of this article.

Obviously, someone paid to get the copper out there in the first place. I see no reason why doing it again with fibre need be any more expensive than first time round. £150K total to cover all 40 properties sounds plausible - I've seen figures of £4K per property floated for the very rural areas.