- No BT BB because of fiber?
- Posted by T i m on February 7th, 2006
Hi All,
I was talking to a chap earlier who suggested he couldn't have ADSL
from BT (who provide his telephone service) "because he is connected
over fibre"? (in spite of this some of the online bb service checkers
say he can have BB)?
He is currently using Tesco dial-up (FWIW).
Any thoughts please (and there isn't a cable supplier in his area).
All the best ..
T i m
- Posted by alexd on February 7th, 2006
T i m wrote:
The name for it is TPON, if that gets you anywhere. It probably won't be the
circuit to his premises that is TPON, it'll be the link from his local
"exchange" [not really an exchange, just a geet big switch] to the exchange
that serves him. Supposedly, the amount of bandwidth available over the
fibre link per circuit is just 64k, obviously nowhere near enough for
broadband, hence the lack of a connection.
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- Posted by Kraftee on February 7th, 2006
HVB wrote:
Not so remote, it was trialed in various areas across the country, but
BT have started to supply copper pairs to the local cabs as well as
the fibre link, In most cases the copper is there it's just been ring
fenced for services which couldn't be carried by the fibre & then DSL
came along which wasn't included in such services.
- Posted by Gaz on February 8th, 2006
Kraftee wrote:
Indeed, the estate i live on, built only within the last few years has fibre
primarily. When my property was near complete, having done a bit of
research, I found that as you say, copper was laid as well, mainly for
services like burglar alarms etc, I badgered BT several times and I was
succesful in getting a copper wire onto my line.
Broadband blokey came to check the line would work with broadband, he said
the numbers where very high, but it should work, technically it was outside
the spec for broadband, and if it had any problems, bt would just stop the
service...
Well, here I am two years later, now on 1mb download.........
Gaz
- Posted by Kraftee on February 8th, 2006
Gaz wrote:
The limits have dropped over the last couple of years, when DSL was
first released they were a little on the conservative side but have
been grdaully relaxed over the years..
- Posted by T i m on February 8th, 2006
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:56:46 GMT, alexd <look@my.sig> wrote:
Thanks for all the replies guys .. I have forwarded them to the poor
bb'less guy ;-(
All the best ..
T i m
