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Noticed my friends fairly rural exchange had FTTC rolled out last December and his cabinet is now active however what i am surprised about is that BT has decided not to upgrade the exchange to 21CN WBC/ADSL2+ and it is still stuck on Max. Is this normal? Is it likely due to it being out with the commercial BT roll out i.e. Digital Scotland..?
https://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/NSMET
http://i.imgur.com/4apZvlT.png
Edited by Binary_Digit (Tue 17-Feb-15 00:03:39)
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It's quite common on both the commercial rollout and the BDUK type.
Basically the new fibre cabinets near to the phone cabinets are fibre-connected back to a nearish larger exchange which has WBC and the fibre handover kit to transfer the traffic between Openreach and the CP hardware and backhaul. The phone line connection stays with the small exchange.
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Connection - Plusnet UnLim Fibre (FTTC). Sync ~ 56.5/15.1Mbps @ 600m. - IPv4 BQM IPv6 BQM
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Is there a way to find out which exchange a cabinet is connected to for fibre? I have a suspicion that the fibre feed to my cabinet is connected to a different exchange to my phone line, but I don't know if that information is publicly available anywhere?
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What does this checker say for your phone number?
If it only says ADSL then your cabinet is not enabled for fibre anyway. (Which doesn't mean to say it is never going to be).
Try your friend's number in the checker and you should see the difference.
My broadband basic info/help site - www.robertos.me.uk | Domains,site and mail hosting - Tsohost.
Connection - Plusnet UnLim Fibre (FTTC). Sync ~ 56.5/15.1Mbps @ 600m. - IPv4 BQM IPv6 BQM
"Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly." - G K Chesterton.
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Sorry, we are both confused.
I didn't spot that the person I replied to wasn't you, which is why I asked about the friend and said what I did to him.
Because I mentioned the friend I confused you.
My broadband basic info/help site - www.robertos.me.uk | Domains,site and mail hosting - Tsohost.
Connection - Plusnet UnLim Fibre (FTTC). Sync ~ 56.5/15.1Mbps @ 600m. - IPv4 BQM IPv6 BQM
"Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly." - G K Chesterton.
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Sorry, I didn't mean to derail the thread! My exchange is SSPTN, but I was asking more generally - whether there's somewhere we can look this info up.
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Believe you FTTC runs back to your exchange which also has 21CN WBC in it.
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The author of the above post is a thinkbroadband staff member. It may not constitute an official statement on behalf of thinkbroadband.
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Noticed my friends fairly rural exchange had FTTC rolled out last December and his cabinet is now active however what i am surprised about is that BT has decided not to upgrade the exchange to 21CN WBC/ADSL2+ and it is still stuck on Max. Is this normal? Is it likely due to it being out with the commercial BT roll out i.e. Digital Scotland..?
https://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/NSMET
http://i.imgur.com/4apZvlT.png
Yeah this is pretty normal for rural small exchanges. What BT typically do is install a unit in the exchange which carries/routes the backhaul for the cabinets to a bigger WBC exchange where it joins the 21CN network or they run the fibres straight to the larger exchange if it's easier/cheaper from the cabinet.
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