Exchange based VDSL ?
Another factor is that lines fed directly from the exchange, or from a junction point that isn't a cabinet, won't get service either.
On directly fed lines, would I be right to assume their speeds would be as fast as can already? Or is it another tech issue?On directly fed lines, would I be right to assume their speeds would be as fast as can already?
What is a junction point in the current context; one of those little unnumbered cabinets sometimes seen at the edge of estates?
I am interested because the cabinet that Trefor.net said was mine ( before BT Or got awkward) is due for enabling at year end. Certain known numbers on that cabinet have a date and speed estimate, but not those on our little estate, fed from one of the little green boxes.
Map attached, showing cabs' locations. PM coming. :)
I have a copy of the (big) CSV format file that BT Wholesale allowed to slip into public view earlier this year. If you would like to send me a PM with details of your postcode, the PCP cabinet number, through which you believe your line passes, and a Google Map / Street View reference for your "little green box", I will see what information (if any) I can obtain. ;)
SAU_ID Name Postcode SAU_NODE_ID Exchange Percent Uplift Phase Deployed FTTC or FTTP
Only Flag Lines
STRINGW RINGWOOD xxxx xxx {STRINGW}{p12} 0 100 5.41 6a Yes FTTC
I am yet to find anybody with a BT FTTC service from a PCP that is fed through a SCP.
Is there anybody out there who knows they are so connected ?
I am yet to find anybody with a BT FTTC service from a PCP that is fed through a SCP.
Is there anybody out there who knows they are so connected ?
We will be fed through an SCP and a PCP when FTTC rolls into town.
Or will we? !
There is conflicting advice on whether lines served by an SCP and a PCP can receive FTTC services.
See [1] and [2], for example:
Any definitive answers from the forum experts, please?!
cheers, a
[1] http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,96231.msg811487.html#msg811487
[2] http://community.bt.com/t5/Phones/New-phone-line-can-I-ask-to-be-connected-to-specific-cabinet/m-p/513713/highlight/true#M17685
An innocent/ ignorant (delete as wished ;))
We have a green box (which IIRC BS said was a pillar)at the edge of my estate, approx mid way from my house and the PCP. Were I to get fibre (for discussion not intended) the distance from the PCP would mean an estimated speed of 25MB/s only. Theoretically would replacing copper with fibre between the PCP and the pillar be a possible way to increase speeds to those like me are some distance from the PCP and fibre cab?
Thank you for your enquiry about fibre broadband. The erection of the fibre cabinets is usually the first task in the upgrade program and it can still be quite some time before the service goes live.
With regards to having service fed via an SCP, it is not usually a problem. However, fibre broadband does have a usable working limit of around 1.5Km, therefore if the distance from the PCP from which connection to the fibre cabinet is made, through the SCP to your premise exceeds 1.5Km you may not be able to order fibre broadband.
In addition, the equipment which monitors lines and assesses line length sometimes does not recognise SCP’s that are in place and, will not return a figure by which the ordering mechanism for fibre broadband can evaluate if your line is capable of supporting the service. If your order gets rejected, you may need to escalate via your service provider.
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Near end (w.r.t. to EU) deflections on TDR are obvious, as is the DSL transceiver in the exchange. There's a blip at ~40 metres (DP on the pole) and a clear deflection at about 150 metres which is close to where the SCP is sited which is what alerted me to it.Could those TDR blips represent a change in cable poundage at those points? BS would know better than me. If so there might not be a lot that can be done about it. However, are you saying that you think there's an unterminated reflecting bridged tap at the SCP (or whatever else is at that point!)? If so, then I would like to hope that a BS-style xDSL installation would identify that and fix it! ;D (you can only live in hope!)
I hope the circuit doesn't pass through the SCP, to be honest, since those TDR deflections probably manifest as reflection losses with xDSL, but if it's not the SCP then it's something else on the line that's equally undesirable too!
Could those TDR blips represent a change in cable poundage at those points? BS would know better than me. If so there might not be a lot that can be done about it. However, are you saying that you think there's an unterminated reflecting bridged tap at the SCP (or whatever else is at that point!)? If so, then I would like to hope that a BS-style xDSL installation would identify that and fix it! ;D (you can only live in hope!)
If you mean has it been mentioned ?? Yes it has.
There is (to my knowledge) no plans to upgrade EO sites as yet. This is just my thoughts though, and things do change at quite a pace these days ?
If they don't make EO areas fully FTTP, then the only possibility I can envisage, is to pick up the individual cables leaving the Exchange, and find a particular point on that run to cut into that cable and install a Cab of sorts ??