BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion
- Thread starter michellez
- Start date
just had a look outside and there a black (painted) cabinet and a bit larger 3 door (or was it 3) cabinet that's new and green.... none of which have any labelling/markers for identification 
I'm really hoping that's my BT cab... I can throw stuff at it as it's so close (like 50 yards..if that) BRING ON the quoted speeds and low ping 
hehehe shame got a month to wait till the bits are posted out then a few days more for the guy to sort it
Is it worth phoning up now and then seeing if they have had any cancellations and can bring the date forward?
I'm really hoping that's my BT cab... I can throw stuff at it as it's so close (like 50 yards..if that) BRING ON the quoted speeds and low ping hehehe shame got a month to wait till the bits are posted out then a few days more for the guy to sort it Is it worth phoning up now and then seeing if they have had any cancellations and can bring the date forward?
Don't bank on it being your cab, there is one on my road, probably 150metres away. I'm actually connected to one about a mile away according to the engineer who installed mine. End of my road is Bow Road, I'm connected to the Mile End cab!
even so, 70mb+ up, 16+ down, 9ms ping.
even so, 70mb+ up, 16+ down, 9ms ping.
Indeed.
You reckon he was lying so he could work a little slower? There is one at the end of the road (which he says isn't me) is 0.2mi, another outside Bow Road underground which is 0.3mi and then Mile End is actually 0.6mi. (all those are walking distances by road, though and not line of sight)
So maybe he was exaggerating?
So maybe he was exaggerating?
No idea - but the current VDSL2+ profiles don't give you 70mbit at distance of the best part of a mile - assuming ~0.6mile cable length thats about 40mbit sync speeds.
EDIT: From my recent experiences with openreach engineers tho most are pretty clueless and I have no idea how they are doing the job... tho fair enough the one who came out finally and fixed everything did get everything fixed and knew the telephony side pretty well but the stuff he was saying about Infinity was patently incorrect.
EDIT: From my recent experiences with openreach engineers tho most are pretty clueless and I have no idea how they are doing the job... tho fair enough the one who came out finally and fixed everything did get everything fixed and knew the telephony side pretty well but the stuff he was saying about Infinity was patently incorrect.
Last edited:
Interesting to know. For me to be achieving these speeds, it must be the 0.3/0.2mi cabs then, surely.
Well these are the current profiles in use: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/images/news/5602-vdsl2-speed-profiles.png
Bare in mind the distances are in kft not miles. AFAIK most people are on or being moved to the 17A profile tho some must be on the 30A as the engineer showed me we were connected at 130/130 both ways on his line tool thingy.
Bare in mind the distances are in kft not miles. AFAIK most people are on or being moved to the 17A profile tho some must be on the 30A as the engineer showed me we were connected at 130/130 both ways on his line tool thingy.
Emailed my local council and it the issue with my cab is going to be brought up at the Town Council meeting tonight!
Soldato
- Joined
- 14 Dec 2005
- Posts
- 12,488
- Location
- Bath
Where are you checking cabinet dates?
DLing an update on steam at an average 9472.66 KB/s - absoutely ridiculous - said I was happy with ~10MBit/s ADSL2+ but loving downloading a 1.6GB patch in under 3 minutes
The problem is, now you're accustomed, theres no going back.
