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On 21/10/2011 19:01, Simon Waters wrote:
Sowton is full of cables (or more accurately fibre) the industrial estate is where the Exeter headend is based! - that is where the fibre rings that span Exeter terminate and link up with the fibre rings around Plymouth (Plymouth HE) and Torbay.Noted that: Exeter has FTTC in some areas. Sowton offers C&W LLU. Sowton previously wasn't upgraded despite the huge number of business customers because the uptake wasn't huge I presume that someone else has cables (Virgin?) around the industrial estate
FWIW .. for those that aren't aware virgin's cable is actually fibre based - making use of Roadside switches (RSS's)- effectively an 'exchange on the street' to provide the leap off from fibre to cable (amongst other things -Mux/DeMux etc) and CC's that distribute the cable side of things.
Hence why they get much faster speeds!
Even in 2011 BT is miles behind - it is still reliant on stuff that's been in the ground for decades - it needs to rip it all out and start again instead of buggering about trying to bang a rather large square peg into a tiny round hole.- so Sowton customers with BT are still on 8Mbps maximum. Afterx some searching, and reading about corporate takeovers and failed deals, it seems basically this means Demon Internet and a few other reseller will sell you ADSL 2+ for the exchange. Woodbury has CN21 RFS set for the end of November, although I'm still trying to pin down exactly what that means (I'm presuming it means there is probably some way to get ADSL 2+ here, but it isn't clear what it is). Perhaps time for some other folks to check if the offering in their area has improved?
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