Exmouth now accepting orders

The exmouth exchange is now accepting orders according to the Openreach Superfast where and when pages.
I've tried my own telephone number and several others but they all say June 2013. Is there an easy way to find out where can actually order FTTC right now?

Try the BT Wholesale checker with your phone number. Potentially your cabinet hasn't been enabled yet.

In reply to a post by Spasch:

Try the BT Wholesale checker with your phone number. Potentially your cabinet hasn't been enabled yet.

Thanks. I know my cabinet hasnt been enabled yet, im just intrigued to know where has been in Exmouth. I guess it could literally be just one cabinet that enables Openreach to claim they're accepting orders.

I wrote a small program that automatically checks whether the BT Wholesale Checker, for a particular number, has changed. Today it sent me an e-mail and I went to the BT site expecting to see FTTC as available. Instead it shows March has now been changed to June - so I'm both happy that my code apparently works and unhappy that the Exmouth availability date for my number seems to have shifted for the 3rd(?) time.

In reply to a post by jparnell82:

The exmouth exchange is now accepting orders according to the Openreach Superfast where and when pages.
I've tried my own telephone number and several others but they all say June 2013. Is there an easy way to find out where can actually order FTTC right now?

Which part of exmouth is this in?

Currently on cab 55 and nothing yet =(

In reply to a post by aircool:

In reply to a post by jparnell82:

The exmouth exchange is now accepting orders according to the Openreach Superfast where and when pages.
I've tried my own telephone number and several others but they all say June 2013. Is there an easy way to find out where can actually order FTTC right now?

Which part of exmouth is this in?

Currently on cab 55 and nothing yet =(

I've no idea. But according to http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/ Exmouth exchange is now accepting orders - somewhere!

p.s I'm on cabinet 56 on Dinan Way and nothing yet either.

Edited by deleted (Tue 12-Feb-13 14:08:14)

Unless I'm missing something Openreach have not yet announced Exmouth on their Twitter feed - https://twitter.com/Openreach_news

In reply to a post by Spud2003:

Unless I'm missing something Openreach have not yet announced Exmouth on their Twitter feed - https://twitter.com/Openreach_news

They normally announce a bunch at the same time. I'm guessing Exmouth will be in the next bunch.

You can also do that by creating a page watcher on one of the many free page watcher services and using the following link and replacing the 01234567890 with your own telephone number.

http://www.dslchecker.bt.com/pls/adsl/ADSLChecker.Te...

Now you tell me ....

In reply to a post by R0NSKI:

You can also do that by creating a page watcher on one of the many free page watcher services and using the following link and replacing the 01234567890 with your own telephone number.

http://www.dslchecker.bt.com/pls/adsl/ADSLChecker.Te...

Nice one. Thanks

I can't take the credit for it, someone else posted it on here last year.

Worked a treat for me on both numbers I was monitoring, although it does pick up every change in the webpage , so not every notification you get is relevant.

Disappointed earlier when I checked the checker, and saw it now shows June for Cabinet 50, followed by confusion when I saw the exchange as AO on where&when. Nice to see I'm not the only one though.

Checked a few more numbers I know.
Cabinet 50 - June
Cabinet 4 - March
Cabinet 9 - June
Cabinet 17 - June

So not sure which cabinets are live yet.. Hope it doesn't take until June to get activated, cabinet has been in place for 5 months now, and it's only in the past month that I've managed to get 1.9mbit (up from 1.1 max before) thanks to persistence and eventually getting a more helpful Openreach engineer - ~40mbit will be very nice indeed!

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Is it worth e-mailing Openreach about a cabinet's status? I think I contacted them before and they weren't any more specific than the online checker.

I can see Openreach making their way to my cabinet on Dinan Way. On the way back from work tonight i saw to vans parked up and a couple of chaps pushing the tubing down the ducts on the corner of Hulham and Marley Road.
According to an Openreach engineer i know our cabinet has power and connection to PCP, just no fibre.

Lol your not far from our office on cab 55.

Waiting patiently though...

Where's cab 55?

Was updated on the status of cabinet 23 today by Openreach -

You are connected to the Exmouth Exchange, cabinet 23.

We are currently experiencing engineering difficulties in deploying your cabinet. This is due to blockages in the ducts, we are hoping to repair these and then will be able to continue the build of the cabinet. If all goes to plan we are hoping that the cabinet will be ready for service mid-April 2013, barring any further complications.

Oh well, it's a bit better than June.

In reply to a post by Spud2003:

Was updated on the status of cabinet 23 today by Openreach -

You are connected to the Exmouth Exchange, cabinet 23.

We are currently experiencing engineering difficulties in deploying your cabinet. This is due to blockages in the ducts, we are hoping to repair these and then will be able to continue the build of the cabinet. If all goes to plan we are hoping that the cabinet will be ready for service mid-April 2013, barring any further complications.

Oh well, it's a bit better than June.

Was that information via email? The best they would give me was the June 2013 date. I see there are now 8 cabinets live in exmouth, all on the Salterton Road side.

Yes, e-mail.

Good luck to Exmouth. Keep on to BT if nothing is happening for your cab, bear in mind that the BT statement "Your town now has fibre" is a sound-bite, the reality is "part" of your town will have fibre...

Here in Teignmouth the planned coverage is full of holes, my cab near the centre will not now be enabled as "not economic" - easy access, easy power, very close to the main fibre runs but apparently does not have enough lines. BT managers are polite and responsive but can/will do nothing.... frustratingly my cab was suddenly removed from the rollout, I found out by chance when checking if FTTx was available yet.

Only hope is some infill money from Connecting Devon and Somerset who signed with BT at the end of January, meanwhile my small media business suffers slow UL on DSL that makes it very hard to compete in it's sector.

Bah!

Woohoo! FTTC available from 8AM today according to the BT checker. A couple of weeks before the estimate provided by Openreach.

In reply to a post by Spud2003:

Woohoo! FTTC available from 8AM today according to the BT checker. A couple of weeks before the estimate provided by Openreach.

Got mine ordered this morning install dates the 17th April.

When did the checker results change for you(wondering whether they did a whole batch of cabinets and updated the checker for all of them together)?

Mine is now available to plus a few of my mates. Looks like they enabled a large batch all at once

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When did the checker results change for you(wondering whether they did a whole batch of cabinets and updated the checker for all of them together)?

Friday, they released approx 15 cabinets all up the hulham road side of exmouth and coming off dinan way. There are still quite a few with a June date dotted around.

Hey all!

Been trawling the site for days now and can't make sense of it!

Exmouth is now accepting orders but not me!? I'm EX8 5BN and cabinet 55 is across the road from me, by Dinan way trading estate.

Gutted my brother has already placed his order..... Sibling rivalry still takes place at 30!!!

Anyone shed any light?

Much love

Not all cabinets are enabled yet. Strange how yours isn't though, mine (50, down near St. Johns road) is - and installation date next Wednesday.

Be patient, it'll happen eventually!

(Assuming that you have a fibre cabinet there, nothing for your postcode on the BT checker...)

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Yeah that's what I don't get about it, cabinet number 55 is across the road from my house and the Openreach guys were literally at the end of my drive over Xmas installing the cables. There seems to be another fiber box by McDonald's on my side but looking at some if the pictures I just saw box 55 doesn't look like it's fttc capable?

Cabinet 55 is the same style as my cabinet which is 56 on Dinan Way at the Hulham Road end. Is there a date when you check the FTTC availability site? I don't recall seeing any FTTC cabinets up by McDonalds

I could be making a mistake! 55 is literally behind b&q on the Salterton road.... On the Left heading towards budleigh My house is 194 Salterton road. So box 55 is right in front of my house. The other box I'm talking about is on the right heading towards budleigh just near McDonald's .

I check daily but nothing...... I'm worried I'm not getting it!

Sorry to say that cabinet 55 is not listed for FTTC. If you take a look at this site, there is no mention of FTTC being planned.

https://www.btwholesale.com/includes/adsl/main.html

Yeah I saw this myself this morning. It's very odd though because they definitely pulled fibre cables to it....(I spoke to the Openreach engineers on the day they did it) seems off they pull cables there and not upgrade the box? And that box seems to carry liverton business park & b&q

I've emailed Openreach now as if that's the case I will be very depressed!

Does anyone know anything about Exeter road? EX8 1QD is my postcode, and everywhere says that the exeter road cabinets are not FTTC enabled - and have no plans to be, but I have seen openreach vans down that road over the last few months. I think my cab is 43. Another odd thing about these not having FTTC, is that these cabinets serve exeter road, and the colonies, lots of people missing out

Cab 43 is supposed to get FTTP, eventually.

According to the Openreach's availability planner there are no plans for FTTC on cabinet 43 I think the Openreach activity on Exeter Road is to lay the fibre spline for the rest of Exmouth, I would guess that the spline would go up Exeter road from the Exchange to the Hulham side road of Exmouth.

In reply to a post by Ribble:

Cab 43 is supposed to get FTTP, eventually.

Are you thinking Exeter? I havent heard of any FTTP plans for Exmouth?

Ah, yes. Exmouth cab 43 is planned for FTTC this year.

Where do I complain / moan about not upgrading cab 55? And where do you get your info?

i am on cabinet 18 brixington lane..i ordered sky fibre 29-03...its being installed friday 19th 0800-1300....have taken the day of work...!! whoooooooo...
alec ewlan.

Love to know where they get their info. When I use the checker it correctly identifies the cabinet but doesn't give any data for FTTC. I had to write to btopenreach to get bad news

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i am on cabinet 18 brixington lane..i ordered sky fibre 29-03...its being installed friday 19th 0800-1300....have taken the day of work...!! whoooooooo...
alec ewlan.

yippeeee...I've got the same date and time slot as you. Here's hoping they turn up!!!

I submitted my MAC to Plusnet on the 4th and got an install date on the morning of the 16th. I really wanted an afternoon slot but the earliest available was the 23rd. I wonder what make of modem I'll get? Would quite like to be able to unlock it for stats.

I am on cabinet 21, no idea where it is tried to find it on google maps but couldn't

Order is in with sky fibre for afternoon of tuesday 23rd

where do you live just road..?

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I am on cabinet 21, no idea where it is tried to find it on google maps but couldn't

Order is in with sky fibre for afternoon of tuesday 23rd

This might be cab 21

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=EX83QS&hl=en&ll=50....

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In reply to a post by Bry:

I am on cabinet 21, no idea where it is tried to find it on google maps but couldn't

Order is in with sky fibre for afternoon of tuesday 23rd

This might be cab 21

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=EX83QS&hl=en&ll=50....

ah that's a distinct possibility, will check it out


I live on green close just near to the community college. So that cabinet could very well be it.

So my install was completed this morning. Think it took about 40 minutes total, which included the guy from Kelly climbing into the loft and rewiring things so that he could fit a proper master socket(which apparently I didn't have). The modem supplied was an ECI V-2FUb/r Rev B. As for speed the checker had estimated 59Mb, but speed tests are currently giving me around 70Mb - don't know if they'll stay that high in the long run but it's not a bad start.

In reply to a post by Spud2003:

So my install was completed this morning. Think it took about 40 minutes total, which included the guy from Kelly climbing into the loft and rewiring things so that he could fit a proper master socket(which apparently I didn't have). The modem supplied was an ECI V-2FUb/r Rev B. As for speed the checker had estimated 59Mb, but speed tests are currently giving me around 70Mb - don't know if they'll stay that high in the long run but it's not a bad start.

Good to hear it went well, received a couple of reminders this morning for my install on Friday so fingers crossed
What you going to do about your modem? You unlocking it?

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What you going to do about your modem? You unlocking it?

Not sure, this modem seems to be less hacker friendly than others.

Had mine installed this morning by an Openreach engineer
I've gone for 40Mbps initially (coming from 2Mbps!) and am currently getting 39Mbps so am well chuffed.

James

i am still waiting for them.... i saw a kelly engineer at the cab in dinan way yesterday morning @ 8 ..... expected them @8 been sitting here looking out the window.....sad or what.. alec ewlan

well openreach came spent all of 5 mins didnt replace any sockets or anything just transferred the cable from the sky router to the fibre modem and has left...
was syncing at 4.9 now have fibre producing about 15meg down and 7 up....
not impressed was told to expect x9 speed uplift but presently have x3
the usual 10 day period was mentioned but this seems really bad for a start.??
looking forward to speaking to an asian sky call centre person sometime soon.!! oh dear.....

What is the wiring like?

Should have given you an interstitial VDSL faceplate, or some if you have a full ADSL faceplate seem to skip it.

You can plug into the test socket to see if the wiring is having an effect assuming no VDSL faceplate fitted

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well openreach came spent all of 5 mins didnt replace any sockets or anything just transferred the cable from the sky router to the fibre modem and has left...
was syncing at 4.9 now have fibre producing about 15meg down and 7 up....
not impressed was told to expect x9 speed uplift but presently have x3
the usual 10 day period was mentioned but this seems really bad for a start.??
looking forward to speaking to an asian sky call centre person sometime soon.!! oh dear.....

Something doesnt sound right. How far do you reckon you are from the cabinet? Have you tried a speed test with your computer directly connected to the router just to rule wireless out?

Well here's a riveting situation update: Still no hope of fibre services. CD&S very slow with release of information.
Life goes on...

I feel for you, I knew my area was going to get 100% coverage but waiting for a service date(after multiple slips) was really, really, irritating.