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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?
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?
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.
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.
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.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?
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.
BertB said:
Interesting, I'm about 1.5 kilometres by road from the box. Probably 1 kilometre as the crow flies.Gassing Station | Computers, Gadgets & Stuff | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff