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[burakkucat]

Things don't quite add up but I can't put a "paw" on it, right now. 

I see that you are a fellow East Anglian, located in Nelson's county. And having typed that, something has just come to me . . . Are you aware of the B4RNorfolk project? It is based on the B4RN principles and is connected to the B4RN network via London docklands.

[Terry74]

@j0hn

Hi j0hn,

Just for completeness:-

About the fibre feed past my house.

Screengrab of ADSL checker for neighbour up the road with the fibre distribution point on the pole outside. The 3rd furthest with 12 outlets.

Maybe my theory was wrong, but why put up 3 of these in a sort of central point of the lane. There aren't enough outlets to provide every house with a feed. I should have asked the contractor when he was doing the job, but I sensed a reluctance to answer questions other than "Its fibre."

Terry

[Terry74]

@burakkucat

Hi,

Yes been down her for about 6 years, not native. I'm a Mancunian.

Yep, heard of B4RN but thought they were the other side of Norwich. If they ever come our way I might be interested, especially if nothing comes of the fibre they have just run up the lane.

I'll post the outcome of my visit tomorrow.

Thanks for your interest.

This is a great website!!

Terry

[j0hn]

Did you check your neighbours (the ones with the FTTP equipment) on the Openreach site?

https://www.homeandbusiness.openreach.co.uk/fibre-broadband/when-can-i-get-fibre

That may indiate if they have FTTP coming.

It certainly looks like there has been an issue with the commissioning of the cabinet.

VDSL FTTC and SOGEA is currently not available on this cabinet due to following reasons:- This cabinet is temporarily unavailable for fibre orders due to engineering works..

Why they didn't pass this on to you I have no idea.

[j0hn]

Just to add...

I didn't expect miracles as the cab is still 1000m away,but was told to expect 16 - 25 Mb/s.

My last GEA test showed my line to be 1022m and I make it between 1000-1050m from Google Maps.
I got 55/7 on signup (ECI cabinet) which changed to 55/11 when I was switched to the new Huawei cabinet.
After a few years crosstalk has knocked me down a wee bit

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adsl info --stats
adsl: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: Showtime
Last Retrain Reason:    0
Last initialization procedure status:   0

Max:    Upstream rate = 7451 Kbps, Downstream rate = 45030 Kbps
Bearer: 0, Upstream rate = 7451 Kbps, Downstream rate = 44681 Kbps
Bearer: 1, Upstream rate = 0 Kbps, Downstream rate = 0 Kbps

Link Power State:       L0
Mode:                   VDSL2 Annex B
VDSL2 Profile:          Profile 17a
TPS-TC:                 PTM Mode(0x0)
Trellis:                U:ON /D:ON
Line Status:            No Defect
Training Status:        Showtime

                Down            Up
SNR (dB):        3.2             5.7
Attn(dB):        24.7            0.0
Pwr(dBm):        13.4            3.5
Not bad for just over 1km from the cabinet.

[Terry74]

Hi j0hn,

In reply to #18 I've attached a screenshot of house opposite to last connectorised fibre installation as per your question.

I don't think they are commisioned yet, as it's only a few days ago that they were installed. No tails attached yet.

As far as the problem at the cabinet, I think it was my order that has shown this up. I think they were under the impression that everything was OK until then.

In reply to #19 BONG!!!!  That was the sound of my chin hitting my chest. I daren't even dream of connection figures like that.

Certainly, prior to this fill-in cab35 being provided, the predicted figure from cab 8 which is only about 600 metres further away, were less than I was getting from ADSL1, about 3Mb/s if I remember correctly.

However, that Attenuation figure of 24.7dB is useful to know, so thanks.

Terry

[Terry74]

Yah!!

Those wonderful people from Openreach immediately diagnosed the problem and I now have about 23 down and 4.5 up.

As suspected the records were wrong. They traced the pair to the cabinet and provided the service.

Have to say they were a very pleasant pair of chaps, chatty and competent. A pleasure to deal with.

Very pleased. Got better figures than I expected.

Terry

[Terry74]

Thanks to everyone for their help and advice.

[burakkucat]

Thanks to everyone for their help and advice.

You are welcome. 

Please now take a few moments and go to the Openreach "Contact Us" > "Tell Us Something" web-page. Scroll down to the "Let us know how we did" heading, click on the "send them a thank you message" link and then tell the management of your appreciation of the technicians' work. It will be noted. (And recorded.)

[johnson]

Result!

Given the Huawei cab you can probably expect a decent increase in the coming weeks as G.INP and Xdb target kicks in. For reference I have around 34db reported attenuation and a downstream sync just a smidge higher than you have right now with G.INP and 4db target, so its more than possible you will be well over 30mbps in the end.

[Terry74]

@burakkucat

Thank you for bringing that to my attention. I didn't know it existed.

I have indeed taken the opportunity to send my thanks for a job well done.

Terry

[Terry74]

@johnson

Thanks for the info. That would be the icing on the cake.

Terry

[burakkucat]

Thank you for bringing that to my attention. I didn't know it existed.

I have indeed taken the opportunity to send my thanks for a job well done.

Thank you for doing so. It will be appreciated. 

[renluop]

In the first screenshot is VPI/VCI 0/38 correct?

[johnson]

In the first screenshot is VPI/VCI 0/38 correct?

Maybe its just showing the settings left over from the PPPoA connection? VPI/VCI has nothing to do with a VDSL connection as far as I know.