Expected speeds

I currently live about 2.5 miles from my exchange and get 2.5 m down and .5 up. A new green box is being installed about 75 metre's from my house (f.t.c). My question is what sort of speed could I expect when the box is up and running if I do not change my broadband package to a fibre package.

No change.

Approximately 0.00Mbps improvement....

The new green cabinet currently be install is for a newer VDSL service or as known here FTTC... this is what is classed by ISP's as Fibre, if you want to benefit from the availability of this I would recommend you contact your provider to upgrade your service once it has been fully installed and activated.

That's a shame but thanks for the reply.

The new cabinet should have no effect, as others have indicated. However, there will be changes in cross talk levels as people move across which could result in a minor improvement or worsening of the connection.

Thanks for all the replies, looks like I will be signing up to a fibre package. In general how many houses can be served by these green cabinets ?

Between 96 and 288 premises depending on which size cabinet is used

As MrSaffron says. See these pics for the three main FTTC cabinets, the 288 and 128s. (The 128s should be labelled 96).

If people move to fibre, why would that make adsl worse?

Can only make it better i thought as less people connected means less crosstalk

Because of the potential cross talk from the FTTC lines.

Oh i thought they worked on different frequencies so dont interfere

Certainly on my line with FTTC enabled my ADSL2+ speeds have slightly increased since FTTC was installed at the cab.

Edited by bobble_bob (Thu 05-Nov-15 20:05:20)

ADSL uses frequencies from just above the voice band (plus guard) through to around 2.2 MHz, VDSL again starts just above the voice band (plus guard) at about 30kHz and extends up to 17MHz (UK). So, VDSL is present across all ADSL frequencies and in some case is in the opposite direction.

In my original post, I did also say it could go UP or DOWN marginally - as you have found.

Edited by MHC (Thu 05-Nov-15 20:34:30)

Oh no its not, in the UK the ANFP has guards in place to protect ADSL and ADSL2+ services