Fibre. Does the existing phone line stay when the install FTTP?

How long since you got fibre to the cabinet? I only have copper to the house and it's 50 years old and just a screwed junction box , I am now considering fibre to the cabinet as fibre to the premises is not available, but wonder how noisy the last bit of copper is, I can hear a hum on 17070 which I am sure degrades my ADSL connection.

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There's a bit of hum on our ADSL2+ I don't think it has any effect at all. 50 Hz is way out of the band used by ADSL, the uplink carriers don't start until 26.075 kHz and the downlink ones go up to 2.2 MHz. What does knock back the acheivable ADSL speed are strong LW and MW broadcast stations, which varies between day and night of course.

If the hum is really loud it *may* have and effect but then just report a POTS vault and get it fixed.

ISDN is hardly analogue! :-) The D of ISDN means digital. Though it does come through copper wires of course.

We're quite rural and switched from ADSL to FTTC a couple of years ago. It has been very reliable indeed with speed banging against the maximum we pay for (40Mb/s down, 10Mb/s up), the POTS phones seem pretty OK still too.

After decades of not growing their network other than by acquisition, they now have "Project Lightning"

I'm not sure if a colleague remember his camera was on last week, as a major project was announced he was either shaking his head, or face-palming the whole way through ...

i've had FTTC for about 3 years. The cabinet is about 100m away; feed is mostly underground with the last bit overhead. That was re-installed after the "Great Storm" of 1987. 70 up/20 down.

I had Fibre to Premises installed last year. The telegraph linesman ran a new composite fibre/copper from the local pole. He split the copper cable off and attached it to the existing phone line and ran the fibre to a new modem after drilling a hole in the wall.

He made a pigs bottom of attaching the fibre modem to the wall - rawl plug ( note singular) into the plaster. It fell off. Need to get round to fixing it properly.

Brian

openreach FTTP used to come with a 4xAA battery backed supply, but they've phased that out now ...

That's partly why I put "analogue" in quotes. B-) It's really the circuit switched, rather than packet switched, nature that is the division.

Were they trialling it with Beth Rigby last night? She looked particularly deranged ...

Same here, ought to be good for several concurrent zoom calls, any bottleneck is most likely wifi ...

Yep. Ofcom started to shift the onus for power fail backup provision (of only an hour) of voice service to the provider of that service a couple of years ago. Quite how the voice service provider is expected to maintain the power to the ONT, any router and their VOIP kit is "interesting".

A techy household ought to be able to manage it without feeding something that lives off 5 V 12 V say... The average "consumer" plug 'n play household will get a surprise in the first power outage when the phone stops working. As for Old Mrs Migens who's quite happy with her hardwired GPO 706 phone...

Several years now. Pretty early on from BT. Been very reliable too. But the copper is only a few hundred yards.

Next question; as it's only 10quid a month more I may leap but any suggestions for a reasonable modem/router to replace my old netgear adsl one?

OR should I wait till fibre to premises becomes available?

Most ISPs will "give" you a router ...

Which is why we have one corded phone here. Although that's less necessary than before they put up a mobile tower at the other end of the village (I get

I found FTC a vast improvement. Not sure fibre all the way will be as noticeable a change, though.

Mine won't and now they appear to buy their telecoms services from talktalk a firm I had terrible problems with a decade ago.