Hi,
A new FTTC cabinet has made an appearance at the end of my road. I attach 2 pictures.
The FTTC cabinets are about 20-30 feet away from the original POTS cabinet. Unless I'm mistaken the original FTTC cabinet was Huaweii and the new one is an ECI.
My broadband has been knocked out (again !) and, my synch speed has been steadily dropping since the new cabinet went operational about 10 days ago. Eventually I lost all DSL signal last Saturday. I've just had an OR engineer visit today, and it seems that the original HG612 modem is u/s. So potentially my loss of broadband is purely coincidental to the introduction of the new FTTC cabinet.
The engineer originally installed an ECI modem which synched slightly higher than the old HG612, but he also had a new HG612 in the van so I asked him to install that as the permanent replacement.
Anyway, the point of this post is to satisfy my curiosity. Why have OR installed a second cabinet so soon after the first? This is not a highly built up area so I would be very surprised if they have run out of capacity already.