Higher Speed BB with FTTC - What's the Difference

And how long do they last?

Being able to make 999 calls strikes me as a "good enough reason".

See above ... Would a customer having Total Care or Critical Care bring out a genset? Or would they wave the "beyound our control" flag and walk away?

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Dave Liquorice
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Would you get Total Care or Critical Care on the *broadband* service?

If it's TC or CC on the telephone service only then that's all they have to provide - and they might be able to provide that by a fixed cellular termi nal and call forwarding.

Usually provision of power for customer premises equipment is the responsib ility of the customer. In the days of wireless local loop telephony (I forg et the service name, but they used small square antennae) the 'master socke t' had a small battery in it to cover short term power interruption.

Owain

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spuorgelgoog

I used my line for voice yesterday, for incoming calls from Scottish Power Energy while there was a ... power failure.

Owain

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spuorgelgoog

I used mine on Xmas day when there was a 2-day power outage. Not so far from you, Bob.

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Tim Streater

True, although I have mobiles (plural) for that.

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Bob Eager

Maybe. But I've never had to yet, not with the multiple mobiles around teh house including the always-fully-charged basic spare phone.

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Bob Eager

Quite a lot of the mobile networks tend to fail when there is a large area power cut.

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dennis

They do if its a 21cn cabinet with devolved pots.

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dennis

Ah that could explain it. But I *thought* I could use the N300 as a switch too. Provided I could get it to have the same conversation with the Openreach box as the Plusnet one does.

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newshound

No but we are talking baout the POTS service is being provided from a cabinet rather than exchange. TC or CC should ensure that they do whatever is required to fix the POTS within 24 or 6 hrs 7/52 respectively.

It would have to present as a POTS interface, around here cellular wouldn't be an acceptable alternative, poor signals.

*Customer* equipment we are talking power at the cabinet to maintain the POTS service that is orginated there. The POTS backhaul being on fibre.
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Dave Liquorice

Have we moved on from discussing BT to some other provider?

Because BT's POTS service doesn't originate in the cabinet and use fibre backhaul, only the VDSL bit does that; the POTS is copper from your house, to the old cabinet, to the new fibre cabinet, back to the old cabinet then all the way to the exchange.

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Andy Burns

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tony sayer

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There was a swerve a while back in that the technology to provide POTS from the cabinet is available.

That is how I understand it is done ATM but it doesn't mean that it always will be. If BT can shift POTS to the cabinet and decommision an exchange building or three in a given area the economics may well make a lot of sense. Currently the cabinet fibre backhaul probably doesn't go to the local "garden shed" or "large garage" exchange that the POTS service comes from in rural areas, it'll go to a large exchange in a nearby(ish) town.

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Dave Liquorice

Ah I was looking at it subs to exchange some reason ...

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Dave Liquorice

This is what in effect Cambridge cable, now VM, have done. One head end which isn't that large akin to a reasonable detached 5 bed house in size here in Cambridge serves most all of the area, the work is done in the street cabinets. They of course do have a work's depot but thats about all much less real estate then what I expect BT use...

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tony sayer

You could use it as s basic 4 port switch. If you are going to connect it to a network that also has another router then you will need to turn off the DHCP server function in the N300

That you won't manage - that requires a router with an ethernet WAN port that also understands the concept of PPPoE devices connected to it. An ADSL router has no need for that, since it can control its internal modem directly. You will also likely need the router to provide NAT as well - again something the N300 will only do for its internal WAN interface connected to the ADSL modem.

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John Rumm

I haven't spotted what model it is but, for example, the Plusnet-supplied TG582N can be changed switched from ADSL to FTTC compatibility by loading a different firmware image:

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In FTTC mode one of the LAN ports (#4 I think?) is used for the WAN connection.

Mathew

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Mathew Newton

And what are the local MPs doing about the lack of competition? I suggest a £500 deposit would be easily returnable in the next general election for anyone willing to stand on this single issue and certainly make Karl Turner, Diana Johnson and Alan Johnson take notice.

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Part Timer

Hi Part Timer

The issue and history are covered at

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Somehow they seem to have done enough to satisfy Ofcom, without addressing the critical issue of choice for home users. See paragraph on Monopoly Concerns.

Phil

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thescullster

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