To be honest all I see at the moment is a scatter gun approach and no verification of the cabinet locations in the last section of reading.

Getting the story straight and simple is the key before you try any of the avenues at getting checker oddities fixed.

Cabinet/exchange boundaries are not solid lines, as properties pop-up and so you can have cab 21 properties inside what would logically be cab 23 area (random numbers used) if you hooked everyone up today.

With perhaps an hour of solid plotting and google driving can probably figure things out, but intuition is suggesting its overlapping boundaries that may explain things

Thanks Andrew

I'm trying to get the story straight but it doesnt seem simple to do! Is there anyway I can verify cabinet locations?

And sorry for being simple but what do you mean by overlapping boundaries?

With that cabinet's close proximity to the over-head electricity distribution pole; and that there are clearly links at the top end of that pole and cables down it, suggests that the cabinet is electrical rather than phone.

In a street that is east (no 1) to west (no 200)

Cab A might service 1 to 20 but might also serve properties 40, 42 and 50
Cab B might serve the remainder

Reason is often that 40,42,50 had a good reason at one time for being connected to a different cab or exchange, e.g. much older properties, or ex doctors surgery or some other property that used to get special treatment in decades past.

Cabinet areas are porous at the edges. If I know the exchange and which cabinets are involved and the users target address can usually figure something out, but got a busy day today to set aside the hour it takes.

OK not to worry, I appreciate all the help so far.

Think I'll have to pay for an openreach engineer to come out and test properly as all their reports claim that we are all on cab 6 with odd houses getting 80Mb fibre and some cant even get ADSL2.

All houses were built in the 1800s and none have been used as a business premises in the last 50 years, probably never.

wondering if anybody can shed any light on our cabinet upgrade?

on Exchange CLITHEROE (LCCLR) and is served by Cabinet 14 , my post code is BB7 4TQ

Thanks
Chris

In reply to a post by Clitheroe_guy:

wondering if anybody can shed any light on our cabinet upgrade?

on Exchange CLITHEROE (LCCLR) and is served by Cabinet 14 , my post code is BB7 4TQ

Thanks
Chris

Did a quick check and have the following:

Exchange Name: Clitheroe
Exchange Code: LCCLR
County: Lancashire

Cabinet: 14
Fibre Phase: BDUK Lancs 12a
Fibre Information: FTTP Planned for 31st March 2015
Result Count: Test Skipped!

*** Post Code Speed Test Skipped ***

Please note that these speeds are using BT's DSL Checker and uses the lowest and highest values for that postcode and cabinet.
� Had at least 1 issue retrieving information from the BT DSL Checker.

Would need for time to do tests (if need be) to see what postcodes have what for that PCP Cabinet.

Paul

FTTC now...expected as you've posted (31 Mar).

Good stuff. cabinet has been installed, but that was 6 months ago. I get around 1mb on adsl, and was wondering if to go with the fixed wifi service off boundless (£175 set up and £30 per month, 24 month contract) but if FTTC is looking likely in months I'll hang on.

In reply to a post by AndyHCZ:

FTTC now...expected as you've posted (31 Mar).

Yeah, March 2015, so it "could" still be FTTP

*** Update ***
Ok, seems that they may have a fibre cabinet installed, seems strange that it says FTTP Planned and to be ready March 31st 2015.

Paul

Edited by PaulKirby (Thu 05-Mar-15 14:28:55)