Hi all, looking for some guidance - I have very poor ADSL speeds due to the distance to the exchange (at least 3 miles away). It's 2MBps down and 0.5 up on a good day and highly erratic, which just isn't good enough in this day and age of video conferencing and working from home.
There's a new FTTC box recently installed 80 metres away to which all my neighbours are connected. Using any broadband provider's estimate page I see they can get e.g. 40MBps speeds, even to a caravan on the next farm.
Openreach refuse point blank to re-route my connection or provide a new line (even paying whatever it costs) to the new FTTC box. Even after getting my MP involved. As an electronics engineer I am perplexed by the reason given and would like an expert opinion on what is going on here:
Extending the network to our newer cabinet and back to -----'s property would have an
adverse effect on existing ADSL/voice services currently provided over our copper network. When
we deliver fibre services – in this case FTTC - it can’t be done at the detriment to existing service on
our copper network. With this in mind we can’t re-route ----- into our newer cabinet near
her home, as it would have a negative effect on the other lines using the same cable route.
This is known as back-wiring and there are also Ofcom guidelines against us doing this. I’m really
sorry but as simple as it looks it just isn’t how broadband and our network functions and not
something we can do.
The same letter then goes on to advise applying under CFP to get full fibre - apparently then it would no longer a technical problem? However, since CFP requires a community effort, not just one property, that's also a dead end because all our neighbours have broadband that they're happy with.
Can anyone explain what "back wiring" means and how running a new copper pair to a different DP would adversely affect other voice connections?
Thanks!
