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[jelv]

From my experience from friends and from my install, engineers are quite happy to swap the master socket to be an existing extension socket.

For some crazy reason when our house was built SEVEN extension sockets were put in - it's a combination of star and daisy chain. The master is in a totally useless place in the lounge. I'm not going to even ask the engineer to sort it out.

At the moment I have a long Ethernet cable trailed through the house from router in the lounge to SamKnows whitebox upstairs in the office which means there's an obvious way to swap over to the modem and router for. When I figure out a route that doesn't make too much mess I'll be putting in a data extension cable.

[WWWombat]

There was a presentation in today's UKNOF meeting, which gave a little more detail of G.fast trials - both the ones to come this summer, and some details of another one they've had running.

I posted something about it on TBB, as I didn't have access here at the time. Take a look at this thread:
http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre/f/4403593-uknof-live.html

Of particular mention:
- The third G.fast trial location at Swansea
- An existing "early technical trial", seemingly near Norwich, with forward-fed power over multiple copper pairs, using 7 DPs.
- Speeds of 350Mb over 200m.
- New ways to make deployment of fibre (FTTP and FTTPoD) cheaper