I'm on FTTC with copper wire around 5 - 600m from the cabinet, the final
60m or so being strung from poles. I get 30M download and very rarely have any problems - perhaps once a year for a couple of hours. There are no plans for FTTP in this 200+ home village, despite the 2000+ houses estates being built around it, all of whom, I understand, have FTTP and Virgin Cable.The only time I lost connection for more than a few hours was when a car took out the street cabinets.
A couple of my neighbours went for satellite way back.
Fine for big bulk data but absolutely useless for gaming or Zoom as they found out during lockdown. New implementations might be better by now.
Most of the farmers went peer to peer microwave link instead since strict line of sight is easy when you have a high barn roof apex.
FWIW the other half of our village got FTTC two decades ago and now we have leapfrogged them with full fibre (much to my surprise).
OR did a remarkable job here (although the rats had nibbled one fibre cable before they even connected a single customer). I suspect that might be how the whole shooting match fails - to rodents teeth.
There are some green spots (8-24Mbps):
Theo
For Newbourne, if I tick All FTTP, there's a blob in Mill Road and another on Jackson Road, as well as some outlying areas:
I think the dots are per postcode. eg here's a random bit of Ipswich:
Theo
ok, yes I think I see that now, if you click the "click to view map" link on this page, the postcode centres do seem to coincide with the FTTP/FTTC dots
[snip..] Q: what's FTTH? Different from FTTP?
In message <TXl* snipped-for-privacy@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>, Theo <theom+ snipped-for-privacy@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes
That might be the case, but I'm not convinced (and neither am I trying to pick an argument). My street has one post code, but the dot appears to overlap with another street, which will be on a different postcode. I suppose it is possible that it is one or more properties on that street that has got FTTP, but the size of the dot means that it overlaps me. It could also be that the map is getting ahead of itself a bit. There are currently three new houses being built on that street, almost in line with me. From comments elsewhere in the thread, they will get FTTP from the start, but where the cables will run for that isn't clear.
Adrian
There's no filter for 'wishful thinking'?
Maybe the real demand is from apartment blocks with 30 users demanding netflix service at the same time.
H = home, P = premises.
Calling it FTTP covers businesses etc, while FTTH doesn't. Also FTTP sometimes doesn't go all the way to the home: eg in a block of flats there might be fibre to the comms room in the basement and ethernet to each flat.
Also 'premises' covers infrastructure that's neither businesses nor homes, like traffic lights.
Strictly FTTP is more correct from an ISP point of view.
Theo
FTTP typically goes right back to a county town sized exchange - your local copper exchange will eventually be demolished and become a house once the upgrades are completed. Don't hold your breath.
One minor snag of digital VOIP is that all local calls now flag as "out of area".
My local exchange only does FTTC and ADSL2+ over copper.
Ah yes, 21st century technology in action!
"Way back" would be a single geostationary satellite so they need to be very high, which means a long transit delay compared to StarLink which uses multiple low orbit satellites so can achive ping times comparable with hard linked internet.
They should be aware of that...
Dave
Using Maps, navigate to Newbourne.
Go here:
Enter the postcode and the details are there. Obviously, the OP has tried his own postcode?
"if the right investment conditions are in place"
That's strange, the BT exchange building in my village (unmanned) was recently given a new flat roof, fully insulated to modern building regs, and then they fitted guard rails around the whole main flat section plus the elevated bit that probably holds a water tank. No wonder they are not making much profit these days.
The latter work was done afterwards and all the uprights were fixed by drilling through the horizontal bit of the parapet all around the perimeter of the roof, they didn't even bother to fit these uprights the top of the walls to avoid making holes in the new roof !.
Was this originally planned to be an open-plan estate without any poles, or hedges,fences ahead of the building line ?.
Check with Google maps if the dot is the same place as the Google postcode marker.
If you want to know the official positions of postcodes then this might help:
That is because your local exchange isn't an FTTP terminus - the fibre cables go a long way typically ~10 miles or more to a bigger exchange.
Your best bet is Google "superfast <name of county>"
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