It might be a good idea to post an actual photo of the pod, that way it can be identified if it's an extension or a g.fast pod.

The reason why I mentioned an extension rather than a g.fast pod is because you described the engineer doing the following: "going between the man hole a few houses away from the cabinet, back to the cabinet and the manhole covers in front of the cabinet".

This is something that they might do for an extension pod rather than for a g.fast pod.

Like I say it looks exactly like the one in that picture, I should say the pod has been in for days and the guys did the cabling between the fibre cabinet and the pod from what I could see and they spent the full day in it. I am utterly convinced this is not a PCP extension as we only in the last year or two got a newer bigger PCP. When the guys installed it they took it out a Huawei box, it�s exactly like the one I posted. it�s off the ground, slants at the bottom is darker green and quite chunky looking. It�s definitely the same one as in the picture.

Both the extension pods and the g.fast pods are slanted at the bottom to avoid having to get planning permission in order to install them.

I doubt if extension pods have vents.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

I doubt if extension pods have vents.

That's part of the reason why I wanted them to post a pic as what is happening is more like what they do with an extension pod, but describing a g.fast pod, so a photo of the pod would solve the mystery. Unfortunately they seem reluctant to do so.

I will grab an photo tomorrow but I am not sure why it�s required as like I said the evidence supports it a g.fast pod.

1 the box they attached was in a huawei branded box.
2. When they installed it they where going between the PCP and the fibre cabinet.
3. It�s the exact same as the one I pictured previously and that is a g.fast post. It does have the vents etc. It�s the exact same.

Edited by deleted (Sat 02-Jun-18 08:58:29)

If it has the vents that a g.fast pod - simplez

The physical pod needs a fibre and power from the existing VDSL2 cabinet, so some ground work can be expected. So not so sure why others seem convinced its not.

It is potentially possible the work you saw was for something else, but also given recent addition of the pod seems a higher probability that it is associated with the pod

So I managed to get information from OpenReach but they are saying my line is over the 300M from the cabinet which I am not really convinced about. I can see the cabinet from my windows (and yes I know thats not an indication of length).

My current connection is around 71Mbps which would suggest I am closer to the cabinet than they are saying is it not?

Went around this loop with someone else, and they could see cabinet but road distance was 370m to 400m in the end.

71 Mbps sync is possible on lines of 400m to 500m on VDSL2. As G.fast is higher frequency that VDSL2 if you are already seeing VDSL2 dropping speeds it is possible that you might only see a small jump with G.fast, hence below the magic 100 Mbps cut off that runs currently.

I'm at 600m line run from the FTTC cabinet and my current sync is 70.3Mbps with max attainable varying as high as 73.3Mbps. So yes, you are very possibly more than 300 metres from yours. (Have you checked it is an FTTC cabinet, not some other BT or VM one?)

What is your upstream sync? That may be a better guide.

Edited by RobertoS (Wed 06-Jun-18 14:01:32)