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Originally Posted by RoverP480
Mines fibre to cabinet not to the house, and the corded phone still works so must have power
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Most domestic are fibre to the cabinet (FTTC). The copper wire from the cabinet to the premises does carry voltage. Fibre to the premises (FTTP) is faster but much more costly. I guess when 5G arrives that will be the moment when a lot of people abandon landlines for good as the copper wire restricts speeds. That in addition to the contention ratio at the server that the provider allows. Business broadband used to be limited to 20:1, but domestic was often maxed out at 50:1 which explains how speeds vary depending on how many people are using that server at the same time. Several geeky teenagers downloading movies and playing games 'contending' at the same time on your server and you're going to be slow.
We only use our landline for broadband since we got fed up of spam calls and unsolicited marketing, but if 5G was available here now, the landline would probably go completely and I'd tether a 5G mobile for internet. (That is also subject to no credible bad news on electrohypersensitivity and 5G.)
We have BT broadband at the practice which has occasionally failed, and since all our records are in the cloud, that's a disaster for us. We therefore invested in a Vodaphone dongle for emergency back up which works very well on the odd occasions it's been needed. When our BT landline line failed the last time, BT help told us their line tested fine and it would be an automatic £130 call out fee if it was our faulty wiring. The engineer observed we did have untidy wiring, but had to admit the fault was in the green cabinet along the street in Truro. A great relief since I was in a hurry when I installed our spaghetti junction
