think most unlikely they will be replacing cables - what exchange is this in the uk

how many extensions do you have and did you have a self install or managed install when you ordered FTTC and is it new property or old property

as all of these could impact the speed

In reply to a post by filbert42:

I have been told that they've been replacing aluminium cables

Thats good news for your broadband speeds although it seems a bit late in the day considering the focus on FTTP

If the fault rate for phones is high enough they will still do copper upgrades.

Did you ever establish your cabinet number, and if so has it changed?

It could be that you were given a half story from somewhere. It is possibly true, but maybe not the main reason.

What might make sense would be if a new or spur FTTC cabinet has been installed closer to you in order to comply over the medium term with the 10Mbps USO for BT in your area. With Zen and therefore you being spin-off beneficiaries. This could well be cheaper in this particular case for BT Group than rolling out FTTP at this point in time.

Could just be something as simple as remaking a couple of water logged joints. Plenty of FVR (fault volume reduction) work being done during lockdown.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Did you ever establish your cabinet number, and if so has it changed?

It's Suckley, Cabinet 2 (Worcestershire). I doubt it's changed as, as far as I'm aware, there are only 2 cabinets, both outside the exchange, which is about 1mile from our property.

Edited by filbert42 (Sat 30-May-20 14:00:38)

In reply to a post by Fastman3:

think most unlikely they will be replacing cables - what exchange is this in the uk

how many extensions do you have and did you have a self install or managed install when you ordered FTTC and is it new property or old property

as all of these could impact the speed

The exchange is Suckley (Worcs).
It's a 1960's property and I only have one extension socket but with nothing using it - we have DECT phones for extensions.

It was a self install but an Openreach guy came an checked it out afterwards as speeds were poor (6mbs) - he said nothing could be done, due to distance from exchange.

Edited by filbert42 (Sat 30-May-20 14:05:56)

Have you compared the attenuation rates from back in 2015 compared to now as aluminium cable would have a higher attenuation rate.

Edited by deleted (Sat 30-May-20 14:24:55)

In reply to a post by dect:

Have you compared the attenuation rates from back in 2015 compared to now as aluminium cable would have a higher attenuation rate.

No I haven't done that and didn't know where I'd find that info - but I found current in my router and it says:
Line attenuation: Receive Direction 39 dB, Send Direction. 16dB
I'm not sure if that's good or bad.

I'm afraid I don't have any historical info as I hadn't looked before (unless it would have been collected by tbbMeter, which I used to run until I got a Fritzbox router, which isn't supported). I might have the old info from that somewhere.

In reply to a post by filbert42:

Line attenuation: Receive Direction 39 dB, Send Direction. 16dB

I found below from one of your posts from 2015, if anything your download/receive attenuation has gone up which is not what I would expect if aluminium cable has been replaced with copper.

In reply to a post by filbert42:

Attenuation (Down / Up) 35.6 dB / 17.3 dB