FTTC Worcester WMWR

Hmmm loads of BTOpenworld vans round my area in Wardon Villages Worcester and new cabs have popped up everywhere.

The wholesale checker and Infinity site was saying 31 December 2010 activation date but now it states 31 March 2011

Anyone in the know got any ideas what's happening in this area please?

In reply to a post by Scoot:

Anyone in the know got any ideas what's happening in this area please?

Probably the same as is happening in loads of other areas (just have a browse through these forums). Plenty of Dec 2010 dates have been moved back to March 2011, and the March 2011 dates have moved to June/July 2011 to make way for the December ones which are running three months behind schedule.

im from Droitwich mine and worcester has been 31st december since they started to roll out FTTC and mine changed yesterday to march then went back to 31st december early this morning now mine is set to be done for the 3rd january but the rest of droitwich is still december 31st my cousin lives in wardon and he has seen a cab pop up behind his house i think it might take a little longer for wardon as there are a lot more boxes to do then again it could just be the BT Checkers they have been changing all the time the last 2-3 days

Edited by seank1990 (Fri 17-Dec-10 20:48:00)

On the face of it our area looks complete, all the streets have nice new green cabs at the end of the roads and I have seen the BTOpenworld vans move further away.

Do you have a cab yet seank11990?

yes mine was one of the first to be done in droitwich and i think the checker is wrong about worcester being done in march instead of the end of this month they will prob update the checkers again 2moz worcester normally get things before droitwich

Why not try asking in the Fibre Broadband forum on this site?

It's pretty clear that there's work still to be done on the Villages, my cab (46) looks as though they've only just finished laying the power (or possibly still in the process of). I doubt that the weather has helped.

Whether this has just been the weather or other factors is a bit of a guess but there's plenty of theorising going on over in the Fibre Broadband forum.

In reply to a post by seank1990:

im from Droitwich mine and worcester has been 31st december since they started to roll out FTTC and mine changed yesterday to march then went back to 31st december early this morning now mine is set to be done for the 3rd january but the rest of droitwich is still december 31st my cousin lives in wardon and he has seen a cab pop up behind his house i think it might take a little longer for wardon as there are a lot more boxes to do then again it could just be the BT Checkers they have been changing all the time the last 2-3 days

Droitwich here too - what will FTTC give us?

FTTC will give us much faster speeds up to 40mb down and 10mb up it gives me an estimate of 32.7Mb download 7.5Mb upload and that will be great since there are several computers and xbox's on all at once in my house and that will be a great improvment on the up to 2mb speed i get now

In reply to a post by seank1990:

FTTC will give us much faster speeds up to 40mb down and 10mb up it gives me an estimate of 32.7Mb download 7.5Mb upload and that will be great since there are several computers and xbox's on all at once in my house and that will be a great improvment on the up to 2mb speed i get now

I can get 8mb at the master socket now, but internal wiring to the study means it is 5.5mb at the router. Presumably fttc will speed up the master socket and (to a lesser extent|) the study extension.

BT Openworld? They haven't been around for years

In reply to a post by michaelh:

I can get 8mb at the master socket now, but internal wiring to the study means it is 5.5mb at the router. Presumably fttc will speed up the master socket and (to a lesser extent|) the study extension.

The installation for OR FTTC is different.

The supplied modem has to be close to the VDSL2 socket installed at the master socket, or on a dedicated "data extension cable" that the engineer can fit. There is also often the possibility of sweet-talking the engineer to move the master socket to where you want the modem instead.

How you connect your router to the modem is of course up to you, but it can't be via existing extension wiring.

In reply to a post by mysticeddy:

BT Openworld? They haven't been around for years

LOL. Good spot

The email address still works

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

In reply to a post by michaelh:

I can get 8mb at the master socket now, but internal wiring to the study means it is 5.5mb at the router. Presumably fttc will speed up the master socket and (to a lesser extent|) the study extension.

The installation for OR FTTC is different.

The supplied modem has to be close to the VDSL2 socket installed at the master socket, or on a dedicated "data extension cable" that the engineer can fit. There is also often the possibility of sweet-talking the engineer to move the master socket to where you want the modem instead.

How you connect your router to the modem is of course up to you, but it can't be via existing extension wiring.

Thanks - will FTTC only be available from BT, or will other suppliers be able to use their infrastructure?

will FTTC only be available from BT, or will other suppliers be able to use their infrastructure?

"Will?"

No "will" about it. Though BT Infinity seems to be the cheapest - trying to freeze out the competition at the start. The BT ads on TV are also misleading in many people's opinion.

Infinity is BT Brooadband's FTTC offering, the underlying FTTC itself product itself being Openreach, and BT Wholesale then providing exchange and backhaul just like ADSL Max and 21CN WBC. (So yes, the infrastructure you refer to).

Any ISP that wants to can supply the BT Wholesale service, just like ADSL and ADSL2+

The ones providing BT Wholesale FTTC so far are in this list. There are no LLU suppliers but TalkTalk is supposed to be doing that soon.

There's a Fibre forum by the way. That's the best place to ask about things. This whole thread would have been better there in the first place .