Could FTTC prove to be a mistake ?

[rhyds]

No, Tegid Street is about 3-400yds down the main road.

This is located on the B4391 near its junction with the A494. There is a proper cabinet and FTTC cabinet pairing about 150yds down the B4391 which is now accepting orders.

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by rhyds

No, Tegid Street is about 3-400yds down the main road.

This is located on the B4391 near its junction with the A494. There is a proper cabinet and FTTC cabinet pairing about 150yds down the B4391 which is now accepting orders.

The one accepting orders is cabinet 6.

STREET SIDE DSLAM CAB NMBXYN, YR HAFAN, BALA, LL23 7AU on Exchange BALA is served by Cabinet 6

Closer to the exchange is cab 7 - also enabled.

Some properties in the are are also served by cabinet 1.

Will do this in full at some time but the postcodes in this area all seem to belong to the already enabled 6 and 7 and some on 1. None are exchange only.

[Central]

Jesus Bala has fibre?

[rhyds]

Originally Posted by Central

Jesus Bala has fibre?

Yes. Yes it does.

[Central]

I used to live in Gellilydan just outside of Blaenau. We was served from the Maentwrog exchange. I am quite shocked to see this has fibre soon to.

Wow. It only has some 500 lines or so.

[Ignitionnet]

Your taxpayers' money at work.

[rhyds]

Yep, its the welsh equivalent of the BDUK rollout. Dolgellau went live last year/earlier this year.

Llanuwchllyn is, as far as I can tell, due to get a cab outside the exchange this year. OR have been pulling new tubing through the ducts for fibre, and other contractors have run a red electricity flexible duct outside the exchange.

[muppetman11]

Read this with interest , could someone tell me whether this could be an improvement over the current FTTC (upto 80mb) ?

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Read this with interest , could someone tell me whether this could be an improvement over the current FTTC (upto 80mb) ?

Yes it could - fibre is closer to premises so just like ADSL with less distance to travel the VDSL signals that these part-fibre deployments use can run faster.

[MrIca]

Originally Posted by rhyds

FTTC is a perfectly good "stepping stone" technology for the UK phone network. Remember most copper phone lines haven't been upgraded (or even inspected) since they were first put in.

Not entirely accurate. If that were the case all of the underground lines would still be paper insulated and actually they are all polyethylene grease filled cables.

[Synthetic]

Doesn't look like OR are interested in upgrading the lines either, the line from the joint box at the end of my street (about 50m away) to my dp (pole) is aluminium so from OR able to get 58/20 there, it degrades so much I only see 40/5 at my property, and of cause OR say they aren't going to replace it

FTTdp would be very useful for me as the pole is right opposite my house but I doubt we'll see that for a long time yet

[muppetman11]

My initial Max attainable download speed was around 130mb owing to crosstalk this has now dropped to around 97mb whilst its not a massive issue as I'm still receiving over BT's maximum fibre speed I do feel for those further from the cab.

When are Openreach going to finally deal with this issue ?

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

My initial Max attainable download speed was around 130mb owing to crosstalk this has now dropped to around 97mb whilst its not a massive issue as I'm still receiving over BT's maximum fibre speed I do feel for those further from the cab.

When are Openreach going to finally deal with this issue ?

They're in no rush.

It'll happen when they feel ready, and may not even be nationwide - the big drive will be to use it to achieve the BDUK-required percentages of speeds above 24 or 30Mb.

[muppetman11]

I read this today not sure if it will happen but interesting.

[qasdfdsaq]

Funny how they say "Mobile operators rely on BT to link their masts together" when the majority of mobile networks actually chose to use VM fibre for their masts... So much for 'monopoly'