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Re: Connect to different cabinet

Smed123 — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 22:01:38 GMT

1 to 3mb. I'm on a different exchange to those opposite they can get fttp while I'm on the tail end of an exchange about 3 miles away I think.

Re: Connect to different cabinet

imjolly — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 22:17:47 GMT

I move down your post so you can replies to your problem and avoid confusion with previous post originator

if you are a BT RETAIL customer then enter your phone number and post results. See what is available to you

https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL

Re: Connect to different cabinet

DavidM — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 08:46:15 GMT

Hi @Smed123 and thanks for posting.

Sorry there's some confusion on what's available to you. If you can post the information requested by @imjolly we'll do our best to help you.

Cheers

David

Re: Connect to different cabinet

Smed123 — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 08:55:21 GMT

I don't know the landline number at all. I find this result strange as I know full well it has a five optic feed into the business below.

Re: Connect to different cabinet

licquorice — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 11:15:25 GMT

You can discover your phone number by either calling your mobile from it or dialling 17070 and the number will be read back to you.

The picture looks like a leased line fibre and would have (a) Been a bespoke provision and cost an absolute fortune (b) wouldn't be available to you.

Re: Connect to different cabinet

imjolly — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 11:23:19 GMT

as you can see from dslchecker results there is no Fibre connections available to you and cab 33 is not fibre enable

Re: Connect to different cabinet

Smed123 — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:02:28 GMT

Makes more sense now that the business below has it but I cant as its leased. Guess I'm gonna have to keep running this 4g **bleep**e. Wouldnt be available under any circumstances? Or would i need permission from the landlord

Re: Connect to different cabinet

licquorice — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:34:26 GMT

It's a dedicated link that can't be utilised for another circuit.

Re: Connect to different cabinet

iniltous — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 17:32:01 GMT

The photo is of a splice point ,( DCB) usually associated with a fibre leased line and has nothing at all to do with the availability of FTTP , Ethernet and NGA FTTP are effectively separate networks ....anyone can have a leased line though , business or personal if their pockets are deep enough, leased lines are expensive , aimed at businesses that need what leased lines deliver. ( guaranteed up time , bandwidth , repairs within 5 hours etc ) and not really comparable with domestic FTTP.
If your domestic property is part of a business building that has had a leased line at some point, unfortunately that doesn’t help you get FTTP, but does mean a ‘new’ leased line should be free of any construction costs ( the fibre already existing) but if you explore a leased line used for in a domestic setting, don’t expect the price to be similar to FTTP.

Re: Connect to different cabinet

Smed123 — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 17:44:31 GMT

Would I go through an isp about this?

Re: Connect to different cabinet

licquorice — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 18:03:56 GMT

I have assumed that the line is still in use, I think @iniltous has assumed that it is not in use.

Re: Connect to different cabinet

iniltous — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 18:41:14 GMT

If you wanted to explore the possibility of a fibre leased line, there are obviously things to check, the DCB in the photo presumably isn’t in your property , but in a linked business part of the same building, it may not be of any direct use to you as access to it would be needed to install a leased line to your part of the building , and if it ever went faulty , access may be needed to it, but will access always be available ? so what are the current arrangements , how come you were able to take a picture of it ?, I guess it’s not a simple as a flat above a shop.

The DCB is probably fed from somewhere relatively close by, if you ordered service, chances are your service wouldn’t come from the DCB in the photo but from the same Ethernet node that DCB in the photo is served from, this could be 10’s or 100’s of metres away, possibly further....a survey would establish that.

As a domestic user , approaching a business seller of Ethernet leased lines , they may need you to pay upfront for a survey , after all if they ask OR to do a survey and estimate costs, timescales etc, the Ethernet seller may want you to pay something upfront , as it’s likely that when the costs are known , you may pull out, but they may still have to pay OR for the ‘survey’

As far as what company’s ‘sell’ Openreach leased line, I guess you would have to search on line, but they tend to target businesses that want , and can afford , these type of services...typically banks, data centres , call centres etc, multi nationals, or business where connectivity is essential and cannot be lost ( leased lines come with stringent penalties if they go down for more than a short period ) and although some smaller enterprises have them too ( in fact they are cheaper than they used to be ) that’s relative , instead of 10’s of thousands per year, them may now be 1k per year, it’s not normally a ‘one man band’ type business that use these because of the costs/contract lengths etc.