Cabinet location & status?

Hi everyone I know you folks probably get this a lot but I was wondering if you could help me identify the cabinet I'm connected to.

I don't live on what you would call a "traditional" street, I live off the beaten track in a farmhouse surrounded by farmers fields. My exchange (Scarisbrick) was originally due to be upgraded back in December but has been pushed back several times and is now set to June. According to BT I'm connected to 'Cabinet 3' but I have no idea where this is located, all I can gather is that the copper lines travel on poles from my house over several of the fields and end up somewhere that I haven't seen, or at least haven't noticed before.

Could anyone help me shed some light on this? and whether the cabinet itself is due to be upgraded? Thanks in advance

EDIT: I live on Wyke Lane, Scarisbrick (PR9 8AD)

Edited by deleted (Wed 14-May-14 01:42:33)

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/23+Bescar+Ln/@53...

Cabinet 3

The exchange may have had a date, but no evidence that cabinet is in the roll-out, commercial or Lancashire.

Cabinet 1 has a date of 21/05/2014
Cabinet 2 planned but no date
Cabinet 3 nothing yet
There might be some FTTP for some EO lines e.g. L40 9QF

I suspect I due to begin in the next few weeks

In reply to a post by Ribble:

I suspect I due to begin in the next few weeks

The exchange or the cabinet? (or both?)

Thanks for the replies

Sorry, but cab 3 is NOT currently on the plans. Not sure how that happened

Ah, that's unfortunate. Thanks for the response all the same

Sorry to bump the thread chaps but I meant to ask, does a lack of date for a cabinet necessarily mean that it's going to be ignored for good? Just find it odd that my cabinet isn't being considered when, by all accounts, it serves roughly as many properties as the other two from what I can make out..

It is possible it was looked at and rejected, but no evidence to confirm that.

More likely just missed out in favour of another cab somewhere else. As projects add more coverage then obviously other cabinets will get done.

Sorry to drag up an old post (again) just regarding the Scarisbrick exchange upgrade iv'e been having a browse for a while about Cabinet data, checked on http://fttc-check.alc.im/ an it's got my postcode ( L40 9QB) listed as an EO Line but the place on the map it's got me listed at isn't correct =/ Iv'e had a look on the BT Wholesale site and it's got me down as being served by Cabinet 5, can't find the PCP data anywhere just wondered if anybody knew what the roll out plans were for this cabinet? street name is Hall Road.

Many thanks!

In reply to a post by Chunkie:

the place on the map it's got me listed at isn't correct

The http://fttc-check.alc.im/ site doesn't show your location on that map, it shows the exchange location. Since it doesn't get these quite right most of the time (probably estimating from a postcode) and you're apparently near the exchange anyway I can see why you thought it was trying to show your location, but it wasn't.

It could be that both websites are true.

Scarisbrick is a small exchange (800 lines), so it doesn't need many cabinets. Such exchanges also seem to have a fair percentage of EO lines, both to the local village and to the remote villages that it serves.

It is therefore entirely possible that cabinet 5 is a new cabinet, built deliberately for EO lines in your village. If that is true, then the fttc-check website might not have captured the new information, while the BT Wholesale website could already be up-to-date.

Here's a third website: https://www.telecom-tariffs.co.uk/codelook.htm
This one lists a lot of postcode, exchange and cabinet information - but importantly, it captures the "exchange-only" information very well.

Using the postcode (L40 9QB), it shows that the postcode would appear to be served by two different EO bundles, labelled "Exchange 2" and "Exchange 3". Clicking further suggests that "Exchange 2" actually serves 8 different postcodes, while "Exchange 3" also serves 8 postcodes, but a little further from the exchange.

From those pages, you can click onto the "Scarisbrick, Southport" locality, and get summary information, and then click on "all 7 fibre cabinets" to be shown a list of (not 7 fibre cabinets) but 3 cabinets and 4 EO bundles.

My guess is that your line has been put onto a new cabinet, number 5, which is probably located directly outside the exchange building. However, you might find that cabinet 4 is located outside the exchange building (serving bundles 1 and 4) while cabinet 5 has been more favourably sited closer to Hall Rd.

You could probably use the lists of postcodes garnered from the 4 bundles on that website, and feed them back into the BT Wholesale website (important: use the postcodes alone in the address checker, and pick sample addresses; the postcode checker won't be good enough). If that tells you that all the bundles are now on cabinet 5, then it is probably at the exchange. If you find some on a new cabinet 4, then 5 may be sited elsewhere.

Thank you both for replying and for the information, have put about 15-20 addresses into the Wholesale address checker and they've all come back as cabinet 5. Fingers crossed for FTTC once they get round to upgrading the exchange it's definitely long overdue! many thanks again Wombat most useful information iv'e found for a long time

Cheers.

That last site is one I've only recently come across. You can certainly OD on the information on there!