There’s fibre outside - how do I get FTTP?
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vladcjelli said:
Two nice guys in work boots and hi vis turned up today. A pre pull survey.
Not looking good. Can’t pull the cables through as our existing line is just buried.
Would need to dig a trench about a foot and a half wide across our front garden or drive to fit the ducting.
May end up being too expensive for the supplier or too disruptive for the wife.
Looks like we’ll have to stick with the dribble of bandwidth we have now for a while longer.
If you're not moving, just take the pain. Ducting won't magically appear, so you'll need to do it sooner or later. Not looking good. Can’t pull the cables through as our existing line is just buried.
Would need to dig a trench about a foot and a half wide across our front garden or drive to fit the ducting.
May end up being too expensive for the supplier or too disruptive for the wife.
Looks like we’ll have to stick with the dribble of bandwidth we have now for a while longer.
For those looking you don’t just need fibre near you. You need fibre installed near you for the purpose of distributing “broadband” so it is connected to the right equipment in the exchange. Then you need a cabinet near you with the ftth distribution equipment in it.
Our area was done 18 months ago as I spoke to the Openreach contractor doing the work, BT connected us three months ago. Our feed was ducted (22 year old house) so it took them two hours.
BT’s biggest issue with broadband has been the size of the feed into the exchange, 30 years ago an exchange feeding 20k homes would need a 100k feed (20,000 voice lines at 5k/sec). Now think about how big that feed needed to be 15 years ago when we wanted 500k/s and how big it needs to be now. BT can only roll it out as quickly as they can support it and the link to your wall is a small part of the solution.
The equipment has always been more capable than the network, we were selling equipment to BT 20 years ago that would support many multiples of the performance BT were offering to their customers as a trial with a certain video on demand provider in north London demonstrated.
Our area was done 18 months ago as I spoke to the Openreach contractor doing the work, BT connected us three months ago. Our feed was ducted (22 year old house) so it took them two hours.
BT’s biggest issue with broadband has been the size of the feed into the exchange, 30 years ago an exchange feeding 20k homes would need a 100k feed (20,000 voice lines at 5k/sec). Now think about how big that feed needed to be 15 years ago when we wanted 500k/s and how big it needs to be now. BT can only roll it out as quickly as they can support it and the link to your wall is a small part of the solution.
The equipment has always been more capable than the network, we were selling equipment to BT 20 years ago that would support many multiples of the performance BT were offering to their customers as a trial with a certain video on demand provider in north London demonstrated.
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