Cabinet Swap

[#1]

Hi,

Would getting a cabinet swap be something that Plusnet could get done for me? I'm closer to one cabinet but connected to another. While the speeds are semi-decent, if two people are using the internet, the speeds drop substantially, to the point pictures take a while to load. My telephone line goes to the telephone pole which goes to my cabinet, but a neighbour who is on the same telephone pole goes to the closer cabinet and gets more than twice the speed I get! Please tell me its possible as I am ripping my hair out with not being able to do more than one thing at a time.

For info, I'm on the Bridgwater exchange and I'm on cabinet 41 but Cabinet 24 is closer.

I've gone through the help guides including using the test socket but that didn't alter the speed. I've got a new 5C master socket and the router is the only thing plugged into the socket with no extension sockets anywhere in the building.

[#2]

@Greg_Berry

I think you would be better to start a new thread with this problem you will more than likely to get a quicker response.

But you need to go through the  https://www.plus.net/help/broadband/about-broadband-speeds/ first it will take a wile but you will get there.

[#3]

Moderator's note:
OP's duplicate post and two replies from another thread were removed with one reply by BlueJiay5 being merged here.

[#4]

You'd have to look towards getting a "pair divert".  This will only be possible if the ducting is in place, and intersects at some point between the two cabinets.

[#5]

How do I go about doing that? Waiting for plusnet to reply I assume?

The issue is is that I'm starting to work from home now and my job involves remoting on to users PC to fix issues, and a laggy slow connection is a pain.

[#6]

You'll have a job on mate, put it that way.  Highly doubt you'll get anywhere to be honest.

[#7]

Unfortunately this isn't something we can request.

There are cases where BT Openreach do this to increase speeds but it can take some time for this to be done.

[#8]

So how would I go about requesting openreach do this? Do you have any contact details?

[#9]

I'm afraid you can't request it as far as I'm aware.

The moves are primarily being done for people who's estimates on FTTC fall below 15mbps or so.

As your estimates are above this it's unlikely to be considered in the near future.

[#10]

Going back to the OP.  To establish a sound case for a cabinet swap will almost certainly require giving Openreach an opportunity to diagnose and potentially fix the cause of the problem you are seeing.

I'd suggest you follow the process here to initiate and record the problem.