Achievable speeds with 'up to 8Mb' services are partly dependent on actual tel cable length to the exchange. OK, but no-one seems able to provide this distance length.
"The exchange is next door - but your tel line may go via the Ring Rd"
I pay for my copper cable for phone & BB connection from BT, surely I should be able to access to its specification eg length between pole & exchange or at least its route between said points from BT now this has become a 'critical' aspect of communication?
IMO OfCom should amend BT / KingCom responsibility to cover all communication over their copper wires and not just low band voice comm
Achievable speeds with 'up to 8Mb' services are partly dependent on actual tel cable length to the exchange. OK, but no-one seems able to provide this distance length.
"The exchange is next door - but your tel line may go via the Ring Rd"
I pay for my copper cable for phone & BB connection from BT, surely I should be able to access to its specification eg length between pole & exchange or at least its route between said points from BT now this has become a 'critical' aspect of communication?
Hi,
Actually you only pay for the maintenance of the copper cable. Why do you want to know the line length when the attenuation has much more significance for the speed you can get.
If you really want to know the line length you could ask a BT engineer working locally.
Yeah, line length plays a large part in the possible speeds available but as JohnM said the attenuation is a greater indication of what signal is coming through, you'd only really get this value when you actually get broadband on the line though.
100m of bad cabling could easily give you a worse speed than 2000m of perfect cable.
As for actual line length Samknows.com can give you a "crow flys" length as a rough guide. To get better you'd either need to speak to an engineer or get part of a BT Whoosh test, though I've even seen results of those be wildly wrong in terms of 3km out once! The whoosh test is probably out though as few if any providers would request one just for the line length and BT wouldn't do it for you as it has to come direct from the ISP.
samknows says the crow would only fly 2.01 Km. Local BT eng suggests max green box route would be 2.2-
2.9Km
Currently on capped 2Mbs BB Speedtouch 330 & Livebox avail
Would love to obtain attenuation & SNR if someone can explain how
Note: Livebox gives you the stats from the time it last synch'ed, 330 gives you a snapshot of the current stats. Neither piece of kit is suitable for constant monitoring.
Currently on capped 2 Mb. Was getting around 4.5Mb on LLU before they cleared the 'fault' with speed cap.
Any comments on above figures?
Well, they're worse than mine
But seriously they're pretty much exactly what you'd expect to see for a line which is now on fixed 2Mbps IPstream and which achieved 4.5Mbps when it was on a rate adaptive 'up to 8Mbps' service. No obvious problems.
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