Re: Too far or fibre optic problem

(E-Mail Removed) (Neil) wrote:

> I am in the situation of not being "close enough" for Broadband to an
> activated exchange.
>
> However I have been told that as I am in newly built street that the
> problem may well be that there is fibre optic cable as far as the
> street level connection and that ADSL needs copper all the way to the
> exchange.
>
> I recall an article in Personal Computer World about this , doe
> sanyone know anything more??
>
> Thanks
>
> N
>

Hi,
if you are in an area that is served competely by fibre, you may not get
ADSL for that reason. The technology is known as TPON and is incompatible
with ADSL. However, all is not lost. When this service was put in, BT also
ran some copper wires back to most exchanges to support services such as
redcare. Many of these copper pairs are now being reserved for broadband
provission in TPON area's.
If yours is one of these exchanges, and ADSL may be available in the future,
it will be listed here http://makeashorterlink.com/?U5B921BB5. AFAIK, this
is the most upto date list of the status for these exchanges, so if yours is
listed, you may be lucky. If you are not listed here, then either your
exchange is not a TPON system, or BT have not yet assessed its suitability
for ADSL.

--

Martin


Martin Cooper

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 23:15:55 +0100, Martin Cooper wrote:


> Hi,
> if you are in an area that is served competely by fibre, you may not get
> ADSL for that reason. The technology is known as TPON and is incompatible
> with ADSL. However, all is not lost. When this service was put in, BT also
> ran some copper wires back to most exchanges to support services such as
> redcare. Many of these copper pairs are now being reserved for broadband
> provission in TPON area's.
> If yours is one of these exchanges, and ADSL may be available in the future,
> it will be listed here http://makeashorterlink.com/?U5B921BB5. AFAIK, this
> is the most upto date list of the status for these exchanges, so if yours is
> listed, you may be lucky. If you are not listed here, then either your
> exchange is not a TPON system, or BT have not yet assessed its suitability
> for ADSL.

A friend of mine lives in one of those areas that shows as "Limited
capacity exists", BT admitted to him that his local box has copper
available, but refused point blank to use it as "If you get it then
everyone else will want it". Makes you wonder what they are up to really

Steve