In reply to a post by candlerb:

One of the good things about FTTP is that basically it either works at full speed, or not at all. So when it fails, there's a clear fault which can be easily reported, and quickly isolated and fixed. Any speed problems are either with your ISP or your home network.

Or the server(s) at the far end unable to cope for a variety of reasons

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

In reply to a post by candlerb:

One of the good things about FTTP is that basically it either works at full speed, or not at all. So when it fails, there's a clear fault which can be easily reported, and quickly isolated and fixed. Any speed problems are either with your ISP or your home network.

Or the server(s) at the far end unable to cope for a variety of reasons

Also the equipment used our end, our first Smarthub (built in network switch) acquired a fault where it would for no reason drop the link speed to 100Mbits, I connected to the ONT via a PC for several hours and was all fine.

So to rule out our hardware I replaced our Main Switch and replaced all cables to it with CAT6 and CAT6a cables and it still had the issue after a couple of hours, so I knew it wasn't our hardware.

BT ended up sending out a new Smarthub which never had the issue.

Paul

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

The chances of someone digging up fibre tubes is higher than copper in my view.

Agreed .......

The bigger issue is the amount that’s being strung overhead , it won’t take the same degree of rubbing and stretching that branches meter out to copper.

The connectorised stuff should though. When I had my training for it I concluded it was stronger than most copper cable Openreach uses due to the coating.

Edited by deleted (Sat 04-Apr-20 15:32:04)

In reply to a post by burble:

Yesterday AFAIK all those in village on FTTP lost t'internet again, this is the second time in less than a year, couldn't ask OR engineers why, but last I saw they were working chamber to chamber back towards exchange looking for the fault. I'm wondering if this is likely to be a faulty install or faulty equipment. It certainly makes the claims of fault free(or at least less faults) internet with FTTP look a bit silly.

Luck plays a part, but don't think I've seen one drop of connection in a year and a bit of FTTP..

Does that go for 36 fibre cables between the splitters, track nodes and DP’s ?