FTTC Dundee Broughty Ferry

Broughty Ferry has been anounched as getting FTTC from June 2011, thats 2-3 months away only, not seen any new street cabinets anywhere in broughty ferry. All i have seen is a few openreach vans parked around with engineers pulling some cables on Balgillo Road, dont know if it was fibre or not. Personally i doubt that they will be able to meet June target.
How long does it normally take from exchange being announced to the first FTTC cabs to be installed.

They don't pull fibre they blow it - stops the fibre from breaking.
They use hollow black tubing to blow the fibre through, which may have been what you saw.

Ok, took a quick drive round today and found about 5 or 6 locations where carrillion or C Plan Telecoms are doing groundwork, none near me yet. I live on outskirts about 4 Km from exchange.
Do you think these guys putting in the new cabinet bases would have any idea of a build plan.

Edited by deleted (Thu 14-Apr-11 15:53:47)

OK so cabinets are starting to be placed around Broughty Ferry, still nothing near me which is kind of concerning. had a look on the roadworks scotland website and it shows BT doing work in various places locally. My cabinet is not on that site either but then again the street cab is not really near then road, about 20ft away on grassed area. Keeping fingers crossed.
nothing on BT ADSL checker but also checked some numbers near to the new boxes and they show no FTTC, hopefully they will update the checker soon.

What does the BT Wholesale checker say about your phone number?

The phone number checker does not say anything for my number or even some numbers that i put in that i know are close to a fibre Dslam box. But the postcode checker looks like it has been updated as now says

"Our test also indicates that your line currently supports a fibre technology with an estimated WBC FTTC Broadband where consumers have received downstream line speed between 27.5 to 28.2 Mbps and upstream line speed between 5.8 to 6.2 Mbps"

also when using samknows UK exchange mapping tool and clicking the map close to where my non-fibre streetcab is i get this output:

Nr Pcp31, Street Side Dslam Cab Nmaseu, Lawers Drive, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, DD5 3.

Not sure what the Nmaseu part means. I estimate the PCP is approx 400m away by road, maybe speed estimates are a bit conservative.

hoping it is on the rollout plan, maybe just one of the later ones to be installed.

keeping fingers crossed

Edited by deleted (Sun 24-Apr-11 19:19:10)

Hi, I noticed that you have used the checker and it reports that it should have fibre optic activated soon. I also live on lawers drive but entering my postcode DD53## it only tells me that adsl/adsl2+ is activated and achieve speed up to 4mbps. I currently receive just below 4mbps with sky. Out of interest what part of lawers drive do you live on?
Much appreciated

Hi, i live in the betts homes. I get around 3 Mb here. Seen a few openreach vans around, our cabinet is definetely on the list but dont know when.
Bt have some works due on the Arbroath road, if you check http://www.roadworksscotland.org/ you can see some scheduled works. around 20th June.

Hi, thanks for the quick reply. I live just around the corner from Avon crescent on the main road but not sure if I will be able to receive it There is a small green cabinet at the bottom of Avon crescent but looks a bit small to be for broadband but I'm not sure. Definitely isn't a fibre cabinet. Have you have a fibre cabinet installed?

I know which cabinet you mean, that's not a fibre cabinet. It will be next to the existing cabinet which is on the corner of the arbroath road and panmurefield rd opposite the bell tree. So you are probably about 300-400 meters from it when it gets installed.

Hi, I saw that you had posted a reply on the thread about the postcode mapping for the whole of the UK. Doing a quick look through the list i found that my postcode is listed and has FTTC listed beside it. Hopefully that means that they plan to cover my address when they do the update

Thank you for that, i initially didnt see that reply. I also found another document that was available on a bt website. It is an updated version of when the works are due to start and was last updated 20/05/2011 and still states June 2011 so that is good news. Also, as said earlier the roadworks website shows that the works are due 20-22 June. Hopefully it wont be much longer. Now the joys of trying to leave sky...

They still need to fit the cabinet and connect the tie ins for power and to the original box, that could take a few weeks but hopefully be good to go for end of june or july sometime. When they say June 2011, that can mean the date when they get at least 10 fibre cabinets activated in an exchange area so some could be after that date.

Just checked my line again on bt wholesale checker, now says my line to have fttc by 30th june. No sign of a cabinet yet so they have 3 weeks to get it done. Not counting my chickens yet!

I see they have been working on the cabinet opposite the bell tree, maybe the 30th September date is obtainable now.

I live over in balmossie and have kept a close eye on this. Out of curiosity, what speed does it estimate for you guys down near lawers drive?

27.5 down and 5.8 up for me... Get about 3 now with Sky. Can't wait for upgrade....

same speeds here, just off lawers driver

I believe the cabinet is now installed and all of the cables have been connected. September 30th looks promising now.

I live on Lawers drive and my speed estimates are 28Mbps down and 5.9Mbps up.

The results for Vorlich Avenue about 100 metres away are as follows; 29 to 38.1 Mbps and upstream line speed between 6.2 to 9.8 Mbps.
That is a considerable difference for 100 metres.

Also currently with sky and receiving 3.8Mbps, after a long call with services to get it from 1.2Mbps that is.

Hopefully BT's estimates are below actual throughput and see nearer 30-32Mbps

Good news! Cabinet now live. So anyone in Panmurefield village, balmossie areas can now order. I have got installation booked for friday 19th.

Ahead of the September 30th expected date, not bad BT.

I'm still tied into sky but found the contract finishes 23rd September so will hopefully switch asap.

Please revisit this page to let me know if the installation went smoothly and the throughput speeds you are receiving

I would just ask them for MAC anyway, you will have to pay them for rest of contract but thats only 1 month. BT are doing 3 months free. Maybe for limited time.

I will report back speeds etc once connected but I am out of country for few more weeks, wife will be at home for install.

I think you might get 4 months free from bt if you do it online

quick update: Got infinity installed today, a week late due to BT cockup but at least it's connected now. estimate was 27.5 down, 5.8 up. House off Lawers Drive. Actual speed when connected, BT engineer told my wife was connecting between 38-39 Mbits.
I am away from home at present, not home for a week and half.
I will post further details when i get home.

Those figures sound very promising