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David, see if you can identify where phone lines run, do any neighbours have any existing or defunct lines?
They may run overhead on poles but equally underground and there will be "manhole" covers over access points and junction boxes, typically with a BT or even GPO logo on them. Usually manholes are rectangular and big enough to get into and cables typically follow roads to avoid wayleave and access issues. It's quite common to have a mixture with bulk underground cable feeding to the base of a pole which then has overhead wires fanning out to nearby properties. And roadside cabinets can be quite misleading, often some distance away. Probably the only way to be sure is to order a line and fibre broadband from BT and see what the response is. Though I think you said it's only normal "ADSL" that's available.
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But I'll wager your copper connection still goes via a cabinet to your home, Openreach are not in the habit of direct cabling everyone to the exchange. I also work from home and found the 5G GigaCube as useful as a chocolate fireguard. I've just been through this whole process, within the last few days and weeks, I'm giving an up to date view of what I found. As for the neighbour, Netflix in HD will run on pretty much anything, Netflix are very clever with their caching and buffering, I found the exact same thing. I think mobile broadband is the future, but it ain't there yet |
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What I meant was it's just copper cable for ADSL, no fibre to the cabinet just copper going to the cabinet. It was not meant literally single cable from the exchange straight to the house.
As for 3/4/5G I guess there will be a big difference between just the modem with internal antenna sitting in the house and the one with external antenna on the roof or on external wall.
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My present house has direct copper to exchange as we are so close (<200M) and so we were initially by passed by the new cabinets. We were limited to standard broadband until this September when we got fast BB (60Mb). The new house has overhead lines going up the lane from a point where it emerges from the ground so its hard to know which cabinet is feeding it. There's potentially 7 properties being fed by the copper line but its hard to tell as it goes underground at the last pole and then emerges at the side of my house. I think you are right in saying go for a line and try that first. At least I know the pros and cons now whereas before i was in the dark.
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I, as MJ has said, also use a 4G modem and an external aeriel on a mast attached to my bungalow's chimney. I use to get 6Mb over my phone line, I now average in the high 30s up, high teens down and mid 30s for latency.
Using a mixture of WiFi (4 APs, 2 in the house, one in workshop/garage and one further up the property), ethernet over power (to link the external WiFi APs to the house) and ethernet within the house to link the WiFi APs and high bandwidth users like the NAS, AV and other, non WiFi, stuff. Because I live in a valley climbing up to the moors I only have line of sight with one tower. If I walk up the valley until I am above the height of my aeriel I have recorded speeds of 70Mb! However, as the geeks will know, the higher my aeriel, the longer the wire and the greater the loss over that length of wire and the greater the costs to overcome that loss with high gain aeriels and low loss cable. 30Mb is fine for streaming HD. We have an unlimited tarrif with 3 at £18 a month and have not watched any terrestrial/satellite TV since we started the tarrif, we stream everything now.
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Let me know if you go with EE I can to get you a 30% discount on a SIM only (20% off pay monthly handset) if you buy through EE website.
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In general they are close to the exchange, and I do actually know someone like that who can't get fibre as a result. However most cable runs, including mine as noted above, will have at least one cabinet along the route. Openreach then usually build a powered fibre cabinet nearby and "loop in" to enable FTTC on individual lines as they are ordered.
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2003 D2 FL S8. Irish Green Pearl/Beige. Solar sunroof, auto-dim mirrors, electric rear seat functions, ski hatch retrofit; extended leather. Aftermarket DVB-T, reversing camera and full XCarlink (Bluetooth etc.). 2016 Volvo V40 T5 Cross Country (4WD) with ALL the toys including adaptive cruise etc. etc. Osmium Grey with Blonde/Charcoal leather interior. Polestar performance "optimisation". (A much rarer model than a D2 S8 by the way!) Oh, and a brand new engine at just under 30,000 miles on the factory one! Finally: gone, but not forgotten..... 1998 D2 PF S8. AgateGrey/Platinum. Every option (I think) except electric rear seats, tiptronic steering wheel, ski hatch, towbar & dimming door mirrors. e.g. Cruise control, NavPlus/TV, Bose, GSM, Xenons, Solar roof, Parking sensors, Alcantara/leather everywhere of course. (internal dimming mirror added later) 1998 (very early) Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec; ABS/TCS, Heated screen/mirrors, Aircon, Auto-dim mirror, Leather, Trip computer, Cruise control, OEM Ford SatNav with CD changer. And before that a lot of Rover 800s, a few oddities, a lovely Triumph Dolomite 1850HL with Overdrive and way back in my schooldays an Austin Seven aka Mini 850! |
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Virgin Media's cable broadband is fabulous, if you can get it.
Losing that is pretty much the only thing I miss about our old house |
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I've been on Virgin Media for a long time and currently normally at 320Mb.
The problem with Corona is everybody and their dog is downloading multi mode games and movies, some even working, that slows everything down. Some evenings I'm getting my normal 36 Mb upload but download can be as slow as 11Mb. Complain to Virgin and they say no fault and magically I go up to my normal numbers. Then within days I seem to be throttled again. I think if you complain you are prioritised then when somebody else complains you are pushed down the line again. Current excuse is that they are busy upgrading the system and to expect breaks in system for a few weeks. I was promised a refund but am still waiting for that.
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