Is there any way of telling which exchange is your head end exchange for FTTP?
The way I have done it in the past is to find a new build FTTP only property in your area and do a DSL checker on it, as it won't have any copper it will tell you the local handover exchange.
The way I have done it in the past is to find a new build FTTP only property in your area and do a DSL checker on it, as it won't have any copper it will tell you the local handover exchange.
Cunning. Live on an FTTP-only property and never thought of that. Didn't really need to as was clear which exchange my fibre terminates in.
Nice one.
Pheasant (knowledge is power)
Sat 18-Jun-22 08:13:45
+1. As long as the nearby new build didn’t happen to be on the other side of an head end exchange boundary. Could be imprecise / tricky in some larger cities for example
Zarjaz (eat-sleep-adslguide)
Sat 18-Jun-22 10:24:04
Didn't really need to as was clear which exchange my fibre terminates in.
It really doesn’t always follow ….. for instance, lots of FTTP around Wokingham, Berks …. a large exchange, but the fibre comes from Woodley TH_WDY a physically much smaller exchange on the outskirts of Reading.
Fibre in the centre of Camberley, with another large exchange maybe 300m away is fed from Farnborough
Of all the local exchanges around my way the one that is the handover exchange is the one that least looks like a traditional exchange (more like a large tin shed). The larger traditional exchanges in the center of towns must be costing them a lot more to lease back so it does make sense why they chose it.
As above. Local single storey exchange is headend for several areas with much larger exchange buildings.
Openreach had one eye on building closures from the outset when they started building FTTC/FTTP.
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