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bad company

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18,484 posts

265 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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I live in a village on the border of Essex and Suffolk, there is broadband but it's not great. According to the Openreach website we will get fast broadband when they finish running fibre cables to our local cabinet later this year.

This sounds great but then I read that the old copper wire used from the cabinet to our property will not be changed so maybe not much improvement after all.

Anybody here have any knowledge of this?

craigsup

282 posts

101 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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Your speed should improve significantly.
It really depends how far your home is from the cabinet - I'm assuming you currently get something like 1-3mb, whereas with fibre you'll probably get something in the region of 10-30mb, maybe more if you're closer to the cabinet.

My home is ~250 meters (if I remember correctly) from the cabinet and I get 52mb (could get 70+ but I don't want to pay triple the price for a minimal increase.

illmonkey

18,112 posts

197 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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Most are like that, it's called FTTC. You'll still get much better speeds.

MintyScot

848 posts

191 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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bad company said:
I live in a village on the border of Essex and Suffolk, there is broadband but it's not great. According to the Openreach website we will get fast broadband when they finish running fibre cables to our local cabinet later this year.

This sounds great but then I read that the old copper wire used from the cabinet to our property will not be changed so maybe not much improvement after all.

Anybody here have any knowledge of this?
Any figures given right now would be a complete guess including the above.

They could simply put your cabinet close by the exchange. This would basically mean you could see no increase. They would do this if there was a big enough cluster of properties around the exchange to make it financially viable but BT is unlikely to place additional cabs away from the exchange if the demand is low.

Basically you need to wait until they've done the work and then you can get an estimate as to what speed you are likely to get.

bad company

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18,484 posts

265 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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Thanks for the help guys. Looks like I will have to check nearer the time.

BertB

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224 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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I have the fibre to cabinet arrangement.
The website said I should get 42 meg. Actually getting 18. When I query this I wax told that as my cables were not 'new' my range is actually 16-28 meg so I'm within the tolerance..

bad company

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265 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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BertB said:
Interesting, I'm about 1.5 kilometres by road from the box. Probably 1 kilometre as the crow flies.