What you should have noticed is a loss of service for several minutes as the Openreach guy did the cable work between the cabinets. Then again it is entirely possible no-one did anything and your line was never connected to a fibre cabinet in the first place. Though unless you already had a router that can handle both ADSL and the VDSL standard used by fibre they should have sent a new router at the very least. That could explain why no-one came to your home. But it is possible to do a "self install" using just plug in filters as for ADSL. It used to be that Openreach who maintain the network would knock on your door to change the master socket for a special filtered one with a separate socket for your router.
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The speed difference is down to changes in technology plus the fact the cabinet is a lot closer to your house than the exchange (usually!) so there is much less degradation of the signal. Your phone line is then linked via the fibre cabinet to pick up the broadband signal which is then delivered into the home via the copper cable just like ADSL. TalkTalk as far as I am aware don't do FTTP.įTTC uses a fibre optic link to a roadside cabinet positioned close to the one your phone line is connected to. Fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) and Fibre to the premises (FTTP). There are two types of domestic fibre optic broadband. Have I been charged over the last 12 months for something which I didn't have? Also, my first bill since changing the package includes a £50 get out fee (for cancelling the non-existent fibre optic) which was not mentioned in the conversation which I had earlier. Or was it there in the first place? I really do not believe so and have been told that it doesn't exist as a separate Talk Talk service and that it's logging on to the original BT cable.
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Since then, nothing has changed, my TV package is the same, broadband the same, emails, OK, upload and download as fast/slow as usual, all without 'fibre optic'. I printed off the conversation and it was 6 pages long. After about 3/4 hour of negotiation of prices we came to an agreement for a different package for less than half of this month's bill. No mention of the fact that I was already in a contract with them. Then the bills started getting higher and higher so last week (twelve months after the initial install) I went on one of the Talk Talk 'chat' things and asked to have fibre optic disconnected. In fact, I wouldn't have known the difference. No engineer came to connect the 'fibre optic cable'. Yes, they said, fibre optic was already laid on in the area where I lived so it was all arranged and low and behold two days later (they said two days) I was using Fibre Optic, or was I? It made absolutely no difference to my upload, or download speed whatsoever. So, a few months later, I decided to do the same and take up the special price which TalkTalk was offering. It made all the difference to our business as an FM radio on-line broadcasting service.
When the engineer came to our office to connect it he explained to me how it worked and showed me the outer cable down which the fibre optic was being 'blown' from the Telephone Box just up the road, about half a mile, I would say. Following the fact that the large company in a nearby office block had already had fibre optic laid on, my boss decided to do the same and we were told by Talk Talk it was going to be connected to/run alongside the other company's existing fibre optic service.
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