Have you looked at this document http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S193599b0Lx? I'm not sure how accurate it is now given the recent updates, but I'm led to believe it was correct as of April this year.
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Have you looked at this document http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S193599b0Lx? I'm not sure how accurate it is now given the recent updates, but I'm led to believe it was correct as of April this year.
No mention of my exchange
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Mines on none of those - and its not like we are a small or out the way exchange either
Same here. We are around 20,000 residential connections too and we are the second biggest town in lincolnshire yet have no date what so ever. After being on the end of a 18meg connection to buy a house last november and end up on 6mb is painful. Lincolnshire really is the forgotten county of broadband.
The sad thing is I wouldn't mind paying a grand or two to get a connection like that but the problem is BT do not offer anything like that.
They seem to be rolling it out fairly quickly mind, considering the amount of work needed.
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They seem to have enabled every exchange in northern ireland, do you still have to live close to the exchange for this to be useful?
What sort of cost does this lot go for, and is it the sort of thing linked to bt vision?
What sort of cost does this lot go for, and is it the sort of thing linked to bt vision?
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Ooh that's interesting, my post code says FTTP while some of the others near me are FTTC, should i start getting excited!?
Its possible. In your original document is your exchange listed as FTTC/P?
any idea what Uplift means on that document? Mine is 4.55 with Phase of 6a. I'm guessing Phase is related to when it's being switch on, so there will be group 6b, 7c etc.
Also is there any reason why in future FTTC couldn't be upgraded to FTTP? For most there is no real reason for it yet but I imagine in a few years bandwidth is going to be even more important.
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Yeah it's always been listed as fttc/p, from searching around it looks like uplift means the amount your connection will improve, take the current average speed and multiply it by the uplift, which seems to work out to around 40meg.
I suspect once you get fttc it will take longer to go to fttp than exchanges without anything at all that get upgraded, i think they should just stop messing about and give everyone fttp, it will work out better in the long run as once we have fibre thats it, only the hardware needs improving for gigabit and beyond.
I suspect once you get fttc it will take longer to go to fttp than exchanges without anything at all that get upgraded, i think they should just stop messing about and give everyone fttp, it will work out better in the long run as once we have fibre thats it, only the hardware needs improving for gigabit and beyond.
That uplift figure works out accurate for me according to the BT site too so you could well be spot on with that one. 28mb is honestly more than enough. I'd frankly be happy with 10mb stable. Though I wont turn down the extra bandwidth
While giving everyone FTTP would be great, I would imagine it will cost a lot more than it is already doing. Realistically you can get a lot of data down the short ish run of coax they hook you up to the cab with.
I have no idea if they need vastly different kit in the cabinets to do FTTC/P but I can see in future it becoming an option to upgrade to FTTP if you want to pay the premium for the service it offers.
Well the upgrade to FTTP may come later when they have reaped the cash back from this investment. They are trying Fiber Drops now were they can replace the copper pair with fiber from the poles to see how the technology copes with the weather extremes hot cold dry and humid to totally soaked.
This will be the forefront of taking the whole of the telephone system fully optical. I mean all of the main BACKHAUL infrastructure is fiber from the main local exchanges back to the large nodes and has been for a few years now. So really this is part of the last link in the fiberoptic chain.
Possible in the future if the tests workout with the fiber drops that the CABS being used for the FTTC service only need a optical splitter to take taps off for each fiber link to the house. But who knows how far away this is from actually taking shape, it will all depend on how the powers that be in the boardrooms decide I guess.
This will be the forefront of taking the whole of the telephone system fully optical. I mean all of the main BACKHAUL infrastructure is fiber from the main local exchanges back to the large nodes and has been for a few years now. So really this is part of the last link in the fiberoptic chain.
Possible in the future if the tests workout with the fiber drops that the CABS being used for the FTTC service only need a optical splitter to take taps off for each fiber link to the house. But who knows how far away this is from actually taking shape, it will all depend on how the powers that be in the boardrooms decide I guess.
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No mention of our exchange. Glad we have this link now, that coverage map was too vague.. just going to keep checking.
See you in 2020 then
See you in 2020 then