As a former employee of BT & a sufferer of slow Broadband (being on the limits at 3 miles from the serving exchange) i can assure you Alli cable does not help in any way. Copper is by far better whilst you await fibre. I moved home just a few yards from fast broadband to barely useable service due to how the new house was served from the exchange. Another factor is if you are fed overhead by dropwire. At the last house the cabling went through trees & every 12 months approx the inner wire would have hairline breaks in it due to the rubbing on the trees :( As other ssuggest you must have your hub at the main phone socket to rove the internal cabling is not at fault or you will be charged for any engineer visits. You could always move house nearer an exchange!! I am in the process of moving areas of the country & i always check any prospective house purchase to see the Broadband capability (sad eh). All the best (its very frustrating) Dave
--- In [email protected], David Morris <brassed...@...> wrote: > > > > > Footnote: It doesn't mean much to me but there are mumblings in the > > village about the lines from the exchange being aluminium rather than > > copper - > > does this explain anything to the experts? > > I believe the losses are higher on Al compared with Cu cables. We're > on Al cables - I wish we weren't. Bring on FTTC that's what I say! > > > > -- > David Morris > blog: http://www.brassedoff.net/wp >
