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On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, John Williams wrote:
On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 15:39 +0100, James Fidell wrote:On 28/07/10 13:54, Rob Beard wrote:Yeah I guess some rural properties might still be a couple of miles away from a cabinet. I'd be interested to know if they'll run fibre to say a village centre and then unbundle a cabinet (bit like what they're doing in Saltash) and maybe supply wireless to maybe the odd few properties who are a bit too far away.Where I live there are probably hundreds of properties that are two or three miles from the nearest cabinet (where "cabinet" might actually be the exchange). The ground is far too undulating for point-to-point wifi connections to be that great, either. Some places will just be absolute pigs to get decent bandwidth to. Perhaps they'll just have to run fibre to every house :)Here is the same, its a bit over 3miles to the exchange for me, I'm pretty lucky to get 2mbit, my parents live next door (semi detached) and they barely get 1mbit (think they have line noise on extensions though). Dirty great big hill in the way for wifi too.
3 miles ... It all boils down to the route the copper takes from the exchange, although I'd normally expect a bit more than that.
This is when it gets into the realms of suck-it-and-see when it comes to fiddling with the line...
Get rid of all extensions - identify the master socket, remove all extensions, disconnect the router and make some test calls - BT's test number is 17070 - and you'll want option 2 - quiet line test and listen in. Any hiss or crackles means it's a BT line fault and if your telco is BT you can then call 151 and get them to do a line check - it will really help if the person in india at the end of the call can hear the crackes too - make sure they can and record the call, if possible.
Then you need a quality filtered faceplate or a BT iplate if not using a filtered faceplate. I'd recomend a filtered faceplace and put the modem/router as close as possible.
If only they would run fibre to each house, I'd literally wet my pants in excitement if that happened ;)
Indeed...And it really annoys me that our town was "redeveloped" some 15 years back and when they were digging up the roads, BT snuck in and laid lots of extra trunking... Which is currently lying unused )-:
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