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I am in an apartment building in a large city where OpenReach will only supply 3mb fibre despite how many times we ask or complain. There are other 2 or 3 year
by quacksilver 4y ago
I am in an apartment building in a large city where OpenReach will only supply 3mb fibre despite how many times we ask or complain.
There are other 2 or 3 year newer apartment buildings 10 meters away in 3 directions which have fiber to the premises rather then awkwardly run lengths of the cheapest aluminium cable that they could find.
I was considering using starlink but found prepaid MVNO 5G cheaper (though it is unreliable)
- Arnt 4y agoYou mean an actual strand of glass with three megabits of capacity? Where can they buy CPE hardware to support that combination?
- quacksilver 4y agowas tired - i meant 3mb FTTC/VDSL (which I think they brand as fibre still) Maybe 1960s/1970s era GPON does that
- traceroute66 4y ago> There are other 2 or 3 year newer apartment buildings 10 meters away in 3 directions which have fiber to the premises Yup. Sounds like you've stumbled across one of OpenWretch's many failings. Sounds like your building is one of the many unfortunate older buildings throughout the country that is connected via EO lines. EO = "Exchange Only", i.e. copper goes direct back to the exchange, not via a street cab. Buildings served via EO lines are very much "back of the back of the back of the queue" at OR when it comes to FTTP upgrade. OR seemingly deem it "too difficult" to pull fibre back down the same EO ducts to the exchange. Others might say "can't be arsed" or "easier to sweat the copper assets" or "waiting for another government handout" .... I couldn't possibly say.