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brobostigonmorning boys and girls.08:52
andylockranafternoon17:17
andylockranAnyone got any tips on getting decent internet when openreach don't have any availability in the local cabinet?17:18
brobostigonafternoodlings andylockran17:19
penguin42andylockran: I'm on Virgin17:24
penguin42andylockran: They're customer service aint great, but the bits move fast17:25
andylockranYeah, i'm not in their area :(17:25
penguin42andylockran: is your local cab problem that they only have ADSL or is it worse than that?17:26
* penguin42 has that problem; they didn't bother fibreing up my cab because it's not got many people on17:29
andylockranlocal cab has fibre & asdl17:30
andylockranbut quality is quickly deteriorating17:30
penguin42ah, those problems seem to be almost impossible to get them to fix - is your voice signal clear?17:32
penguin42and also, just how bad has it got (on what service?)17:37
daftykinswhen you say fiber at the cab, what do you really mean by that?17:44
daftykinsbackhaul so you can have VDSL services, or?17:44
penguin42That's what I meant, (lets check andylockran's meaning as well); our cab is a passive wiring cab; no DSLAM17:48
daftykinsi'm gonna have scaffold up soon, ideal time to remove some of the 4 phone lines that run across the front of my house :) ripped out extra ones i don't use inside my place \o/17:53
daftykinshave to be sure not to chop the neighbours one ;)17:54
penguin42are you allowed to do that?17:55
daftykinswell in the same standard as BT, the local telco has the control over everything up to master sockets - but for unused cables there's no service 8D17:57
daftykinsso probably not, i certainly won't touch the WW2 era terminals of where these cables join onto the ones coming out of the ground17:57
daftykinscould just snip them back to close to there, though water ingress could potentially ruin them all i suppose17:58
penguin42your wires come out of the ground? Weird....18:02
daftykinsyep, how they should be18:03
penguin42ours come from polls18:03
daftykinssome areas of the island have poles :)18:03
daftykinswouldn't fancy that myself though18:03
penguin42(cable comes up from the ground)18:03
penguin42daftykins: Never had a problem with the use of a pole, I guess it just meant they could put in a whole bunch of houses at once18:03
daftykinsmy house is about 50m from the nearest cabinet though18:04
daftykinstotally passive one again but then the exchange is about 600m behind that18:04
andylockrandaftykins: not sure.  I'm on cab 33, if that means owt18:16
andylockranwant to know what to look for18:16
daftykinsnot to me, i'm not in England :D18:16
daftykinsbut what's your current situation, what service are you on and what do you sync at?18:17
andylockranBT18:17
daftykinsby service i really meant which DSL technology and expected max speeds18:17
andylockransaying:  Line state:Connected18:18
andylockranConnection time:1 days, 12:07:0118:18
andylockranDownstream:12.92 Mbps18:18
andylockranUpstream:771.9 Kbps18:18
andylockranbut not getting anywhere near that18:18
daftykinshave you got a proper combo filtered master socket in place, or sketchy sockets with microfilters plugged in?18:19
andylockranproper combo filterred master socket18:19
daftykinshrmm and the length of cable from where the line enters the property to that is of a decent standard?18:19
daftykinsalso, it doesn't run near any mains wiring18:20
andylockranall true - it's been fine since I mvoed in 5 years ago18:21
andylockranjust gradually got worse18:21
daftykinsthat sync is definitely pretty bad18:26
daftykinsbuuuut if it's a passive cab then it might be all you can expect18:26
daftykinsi usually like to pop the socket directly onto the pair coming into the property to confirm things18:29
daftykinsthose little grey boxes they put before internal wiring is joined on18:29

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