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Re: [LUG] Fwd: UK pushes on with broadband plans

 



-----Original Message----- From: Gordon Henderson
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 12:02 PM
To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [LUG] Fwd: UK pushes on with broadband plans

On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, James Kilty wrote:

On 05/03/11 08:36, Gordon Henderson wrote:

http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/news/BT-expected-named-163-130m-broadband-partner/article-2704382-detail/article.html
How does this square with BT saying Leedstown will be connected on 28
March and Demon can upgrade me immediately? If it is not a done deal how can they tell me FTTC will be done - or are we talking about the last 100 yards of wire? (Or 2.5 miles if it is from the exchange.

BT (Wholesale + OpenReach) will be running fibre (and power) to the
cabinet 100 yards from you, and fitting a mini DSLAM inside the cabinet
(or more likely a new cabinet) You'll keep the same copper.

Once BTW have confirmed the install and tested it, then they'll open it up
to other ISPs (including BT retail) for use. At that point, Demon can
upgrade you - a service which you'll pay for, and a man (from BT
OpenReach) will come in install a new faceplate and modem for you.

The RFS (Ready For Service) date for your exchange is the 11th of March -
but I'd go to the cabinet and see if they've started work on it yet - they
are running late in some areas... However, I've no idea to work out if
they're upgrading all cabinet, or just some. The best indication will be
to see if they've actually put in a new cabinet yet, or done some ground
work perparations. (dig a hole, concrete base, etc.)

100 yds from the cabinet - you'll potentially get well over 30Mb/sec sync.
rate at that distance. Lucky sod! (however it's then up to the service you
get over BT Wholesale and your chosen ISP as to the actual throughput you
get)

Gordon


At that distance James should get the full 39997 profile downstream
and 10000 upstream. My connection varies from 39997 down to just
over 36000.  I'm 400 metres from the cabinet.

However the actual speed we will get when activated will depend on
the cabinet BT have fitted.

Currently there is a software issue with the smaller cabinets BT have
used in areas of Cornwall and Northern Ireland.  The latest I've heard
from enta (my provider) is the following:-

Checked the details and found the engineers notes which state that this
is a faulty DSLAM software issue which is currently being dealt with by
BT design. The software updates needs to be tested and will not be
rolled out for a few weeks.

Andrew

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