Where is my cabinet, and why can't I get FTTC?

Hi,

My exchange is Woolston,Southampton. It has been fibre enabled for a couple of years now. Houses up and down the street near me can get FTTC but I can't.

I've checked on the BT wholesale site to see I'm connected to Cab 49.

Address FLAT XXX, 180 BURSLEDON RD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 8NB on Exchange WOOLSTON is served by Cabinet 49

VirginMedia is available to all homes near us too, but not to our flat. It seems we're in a proper 'not spot' of 3mb~ average ADSL where everyone around us can get proper broadband speeds.

My questions then are 1.) where physically is the cab,I've driven round and can't find it anywhere (this is more for my own geeky curiosity than anything else...) 2.) as NGA enquiries no longer works does anyone have an idea why cab 49 wasn't upgraded and if it will be done in the future?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Edited by deleted (Thu 27-Feb-14 02:06:33)

I suggest you edit out your address at least as fare as the house number . These posts get onto google search results.

Sorry I can't help much with the actual question, too tired. It could be you are too far from the cabinet for VDSL2 to be any good. If you are, the FTTC estimates don't appear. You will only know if you find he cabinet, to see if it has a fibre mate.

I'm on my phone at the moment, but have done a little investigating. If you enter just the postcode into the FULL ADDRESS checker you are given a list of addresses for that postcode.

Seems the flats are on cab 49, as are houses up to 210
If you select the house address (180) it is on cab 14, with full FTTC
Selecting other house addresses 212 and above are on cab 28 with FTTC

It would be worth using this method to check all the flats and surrounding houses.

It may be just your area happens to be covered by 3 cabs, but Something seems a little odd somewhere.

Edited to add further info above, also it seems odd that there is a house number 180, and flats listed for 180, is there a separate house or was it knocked down to make way for the block of flats? Seeing as these houses & flats are relatively new they may have been connected to different cabinets as there wasn't enough capacity in one.

Edited by R0NSKI (Thu 27-Feb-14 08:34:34)

Hi Digitalis,

I think I've found your cabinet. It's on the corner of Caerleon Drive and Brecon road.

I found it using this useful lookup site:

Codelookup

You can get a map of all the fiber cabinets for the exchange, and if you hover the mouse over the green dots it displays the cabinet number.

Regards, Noinchki

Cab 49

In reply to a post by Ribble:

Cab 49

If that's BT's new logo I'm not very impressed

You sure that's Cab 49? It looks more like a VM one to me.

I'm sure it is

I think Bob is right looks like a VM cab to me.

Nah, it's BT with an anti climb top

In reply to a post by noinchki:

Codelookup

You can get a map of all the fiber cabinets for the exchange, and if you hover the mouse over the green dots it displays the cabinet number.

Regards, Noinchki

Fascinating site, thanks for sharing. But for the exchanges I've tried it with (local ones that I'm familiar with) it doesn't seem to be accurate for cabinet location.

In reply to a post by Ribble:

Nah, it's BT with an anti climb top

are you sure ? as never ever seen a BT pcp like that !

do you have a better pic of it ?

I know the one on my site is VM, probably Nynex. You can see the number on the side.

Surely you can check the records yourself BTbert, as I highly suspect Ribble does?

no it wont be - i assume it based ont he post code / pcp match fiel with give centre of post code served by a cab -- it will not give hte cab location - that is not public

In reply to a post by Irby:

In reply to a post by noinchki:

Codelookup

You can get a map of all the fiber cabinets for the exchange, and if you hover the mouse over the green dots it displays the cabinet number.

Regards, Noinchki

Fascinating site, thanks for sharing. But for the exchanges I've tried it with (local ones that I'm familiar with) it doesn't seem to be accurate for cabinet location.

I would say the same as you, the ones I have looked out are not in the correct place.It also seems to suggest I am connected to two cabinets. Mind you SamKnows is similar as it says I can get fibre on my phone number which I know I cannot.

In reply to a post by R0NSKI:

Surely you can check the records yourself BTbert, as I highly suspect Ribble does?

Yep i could but CSS is for work use only.

I must admit, though I don't doubt you, it ain't lake any I've ever seen either.

Sorry to bump this thread but we're no further on getting FTTC on cabinet 49 (woolston, southampton). I thought BDUK might help but there's no joy on

* Hampshire faster broadband website (http://www.hampshiresuperfastbroadband.com/ - area not covered by BDUK)
* Codelook (https://www.telecom-tariffs.co.uk/ - shows fibre not available)
* Roadworks.org (no roadworks scheduled)

I've been checking the Openreach where-and-when site every other month which gives me "cabinet under review" so there is *some* hope of FTTC but would anyone on here have any other guestimates / clues as to if I'll ever get fast broadband in this area :-/

Edited by deleted (Tue 26-May-15 00:28:12)

does anyone have an idea why cab 49 wasn't upgraded and if it will be done in the future?

No not this year at least