Re: Cabling roads
 

The annoying thing is, that NTL's cables run less than 10m from my house.

Re: Cabling roads
 

AFAIK NTL are still putting cabling in when new estates are built within/adjacent to a previously cabled area.

Re: Cabling roads
 

The answer to this could be that to change light to rf or even to use the light in a piece of equipment would be far to expensive.

The real answer for "why won't ntlwest cable my street" would be that both companies have a possible customer base of 12 million and have 5 million customers at the present time, so in short when they start to get close to 12 million then they will start to do new digs.

Re: Cabling roads
 

What would be the cost of bridging that 10m? surely thats viable.

Re: Cabling roads
 

Or they've ever experienced Ntl's service. :erm:

Re: Cabling roads
 

I would imagine a lot depends on what ducting is present near the house, how full it is and how easy it would be to get a cable from the nearest green box which has capacity to the property. Think about parts of Leicester which have many large Victorian houses which have been converted to flats. The original cabling did not take account of providing all of them with a cable service which has lead to the situation that you find yourself in.

Re: Cabling roads
 

Umm I wasnt reffering to Leics then, my particular area tho since you brought it up isnt victorian houses converted to flat's the street's around me are mainly semi detached properties. And a few streets away is the student area of terraced housing.

Re: Cabling roads
 

It is not just a case of an extra 10M, but the small green boxes (a cab)are set out in such away that they cover about 40-50 houses (max of 50 if they all have 1 phone line) so the ten metres now turns into another cab and even further up the line if the big green box (the mux) is maxed out you will need a new mux so your 10m, a new cab is now a new mux......all I will say this may not be the case but it can very easily and quickly snow ball in 100's of 1000's of pounds to get a couple of potential customers on board and then it may only be 1 or 2 wanting it!