In reply to a post by GlynDHughes:

Not sure if you have checked your own number lately Ade...you might be pleasantly surprised?

Cough

If your cabinet is powered, then the likely cause is network issues. It is likely that there is civils work required to fix the duct route for fibre or copper. These can constantly be pushed back due to councils requiring difference traffic management solutions, paperwork issues, night working, weekend working or school holiday only working. In a number of cases, the civils work won't fix the problem and then a new length of duct network is required which is much more expensive but OR then have to go around the houses with councils again.

Council highways can and do throw contractors off sight if the traffic lights or TM solution is not exactly as per the application, or the council decides pedestrian walkways need to be changed.

Don't tell me how bad councils are. Around here BT needed to do some work - about 1-2 hours but would have need to take about 2m on one side of the road and thus some form of traffic control would be required. The LA wanted 13 weeks notice!

In reply to a post by FTTCguru:

If your cabinet is powered, then the likely cause is network issues. It is likely that there is civils work required to fix the duct route for fibre or copper. These can constantly be pushed back due to councils requiring difference traffic management solutions, paperwork issues, night working, weekend working or school holiday only working. In a number of cases, the civils work won't fix the problem and then a new length of duct network is required which is much more expensive but OR then have to go around the houses with councils again.

Council highways can and do throw contractors off sight if the traffic lights or TM solution is not exactly as per the application, or the council decides pedestrian walkways need to be changed.

He's probably not interested .

He hasn't posted since 12 July, and that was after he had FTTC installed.

You do seem to be on a huge trawl for people to reply to, going back this far having only just registered here yourself. It might pay to check dates on posts and whether there has been a resolution .