brobostigon | morning boys and girls. | 08:52 |
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andylockran | afternoon | 17:17 |
andylockran | Anyone got any tips on getting decent internet when openreach don't have any availability in the local cabinet? | 17:18 |
brobostigon | afternoodlings andylockran | 17:19 |
penguin42 | andylockran: I'm on Virgin | 17:24 |
penguin42 | andylockran: They're customer service aint great, but the bits move fast | 17:25 |
andylockran | Yeah, i'm not in their area :( | 17:25 |
penguin42 | andylockran: 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 on | 17:29 | |
andylockran | local cab has fibre & asdl | 17:30 |
andylockran | but quality is quickly deteriorating | 17:30 |
penguin42 | ah, those problems seem to be almost impossible to get them to fix - is your voice signal clear? | 17:32 |
penguin42 | and also, just how bad has it got (on what service?) | 17:37 |
daftykins | when you say fiber at the cab, what do you really mean by that? | 17:44 |
daftykins | backhaul so you can have VDSL services, or? | 17:44 |
penguin42 | That's what I meant, (lets check andylockran's meaning as well); our cab is a passive wiring cab; no DSLAM | 17:48 |
daftykins | i'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 |
daftykins | have to be sure not to chop the neighbours one ;) | 17:54 |
penguin42 | are you allowed to do that? | 17:55 |
daftykins | well 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 8D | 17:57 |
daftykins | so probably not, i certainly won't touch the WW2 era terminals of where these cables join onto the ones coming out of the ground | 17:57 |
daftykins | could just snip them back to close to there, though water ingress could potentially ruin them all i suppose | 17:58 |
penguin42 | your wires come out of the ground? Weird.... | 18:02 |
daftykins | yep, how they should be | 18:03 |
penguin42 | ours come from polls | 18:03 |
daftykins | some areas of the island have poles :) | 18:03 |
daftykins | wouldn't fancy that myself though | 18:03 |
penguin42 | (cable comes up from the ground) | 18:03 |
penguin42 | daftykins: 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 once | 18:03 |
daftykins | my house is about 50m from the nearest cabinet though | 18:04 |
daftykins | totally passive one again but then the exchange is about 600m behind that | 18:04 |
andylockran | daftykins: not sure. I'm on cab 33, if that means owt | 18:16 |
andylockran | want to know what to look for | 18:16 |
daftykins | not to me, i'm not in England :D | 18:16 |
daftykins | but what's your current situation, what service are you on and what do you sync at? | 18:17 |
andylockran | BT | 18:17 |
daftykins | by service i really meant which DSL technology and expected max speeds | 18:17 |
andylockran | saying: Line state:Connected | 18:18 |
andylockran | Connection time:1 days, 12:07:01 | 18:18 |
andylockran | Downstream:12.92 Mbps | 18:18 |
andylockran | Upstream:771.9 Kbps | 18:18 |
andylockran | but not getting anywhere near that | 18:18 |
daftykins | have you got a proper combo filtered master socket in place, or sketchy sockets with microfilters plugged in? | 18:19 |
andylockran | proper combo filterred master socket | 18:19 |
daftykins | hrmm and the length of cable from where the line enters the property to that is of a decent standard? | 18:19 |
daftykins | also, it doesn't run near any mains wiring | 18:20 |
andylockran | all true - it's been fine since I mvoed in 5 years ago | 18:21 |
andylockran | just gradually got worse | 18:21 |
daftykins | that sync is definitely pretty bad | 18:26 |
daftykins | buuuut if it's a passive cab then it might be all you can expect | 18:26 |
daftykins | i usually like to pop the socket directly onto the pair coming into the property to confirm things | 18:29 |
daftykins | those little grey boxes they put before internal wiring is joined on | 18:29 |
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