Yes - it was very common around 30+ years ago and just the reason we ended up moving from aDSL to VM a few years ago. At least with it being only a few hundred metres from the cabinet rather than several miles it should perform better.Our cable was fitted by BT 32 years ago, we've been a customer ever since, but I was told last Tuesday by someone in the know that around that time they used an aluminium, copper dipped cable for cheapness sake and that doesn't help!
Tony.
When they measured the effective line length of our phone line it came in at over 6m on a run of just 2.2m. We could only get twice the speed of dial up - which was a laugh because I had an ISDN line in for work. On top of that, every time it rained the pits filled with water and everything stopped working until it dried out. Of course the phone installers weren't allowed to talk to the guys responsible for the street cabling.