Cabinet Or Home?

[notalot]

Like many answerbankers, I am being "encouraged" to switch to BT Infinity. Do any of you know if BT's fibre optic cables run to your home, or only to the nearest cabinet?

[SeaJayPea]

I know this - they installed it here a few months ago. Total improvement? Not a sausage. If anything, it's had more outages than before. They say I have it for nothing. So far that appears to be the case. Whether that situation continues can only remain to be seen.

[boxtops]

It comes to my house, the bloke put it in. It's brilliant. I have had hardly any problems since ours was installed two years ago. Download time is really fast. I'd 10% go for it. http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/broadband/getting-ready-for-bt-infinity

[boxtops]

Erm, that should be 100% !

[woofgang]

agree with boxy, better faster connection at no extra cost.

[sunny-dave]

Infinity fibre runs only to the cabinet - it's a FTTC product (fibre to the cabinet).

The final yards to your house will be the existing copper wire, but you need a new modem/router box attached to it in your house.

This means that if you are a good way from the Cab you won't get real 'fibre' speeds - but should still get more than your previous 'copper all the way' speeds.

FTTH (where the optic fibre actually comes to your premises) is, by and large, only a big business product in the UK at the moment.

[sunny-dave]

That should say FTTP not FTTH.

[boxtops]

Ah - thanks Dave - It's still really fast, the box is only 50 yards away!

[notalot]

Thanks everyone! My next job is to locate the cabinet. Let's hope it's not a fibre-optical illusion...sorry!

[Iggle Piggle]

So surely this means if someone on my street orders infinity, and BT run a fibre to our local cabinet, we all get improved speed? whether on infinity or not

[notalot]

If only that were true, IgglePiggle! Landlines to homes are still separate and discrete, thankfully, otherwise every call would be a conference call in the manner of The Tower of Babel!

[notalot]

Am pleased to report a vast improvement in broadband signal since BT connected me to Infinity. There was an improvement just using the new BT Dual Band 802.11ac Wireless Adapter and even more after setting up the new Hub5. So far so much better! Average of 4.5 bars out of 5 in signal strength.
PS. I'm just a customer - I don't work for BT!