Cab upgrade date

Hi There

am trying to find out when Cab 99 from the Hemel Hempstead exchange is listed for an upgrade ?

Engineer said I can find out somewhere on the Openreach site but no luck !

Anyone able to help ?

Thanks in advance

No idea, most cabinets were done commercially, but some are down for the Bucks & Herts BDUK project they are best place for further information in theory.

A lot depends on the level of overlap with Virgin Media in the cabinet area and the number of lines from the cabinet. P99 is one of the smallest cabinets on the exchange in terms of properties served it looks like.

Note sure on the cabinets location it may be https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.755982,-0.428288,3...

The lucky properties on cabinet P126 look like they might get FTTP.

Looks like 99 is not in any plans at present.
I reckon several cabs will be getting the FTTP treatment though

Having FTTP as your only option is not so great if Openreach want over £3000 to complete the deployment for an individual property.

Thanks for the replies all , thats the cab thanks for that !

Shame its not on any future plans , seems barmy with a big business park next door !


Ironically I can only get 2mb on the BT Line but if i go to the top of the house I can get a 4G mobile signal at 16mb !

If only I could build that into a router and use that all the time and not have to worry about bandwidth issues !!

Edited by deleted (Fri 20-Jun-14 08:54:01)

In reply to a post by brightd:

Having FTTP as your only option is not so great if Openreach want over £3000 to complete the deployment for an individual property.

This would be actual FTTP, and cost the same as FTTC. You're thinking about FTTPoD.

Cheers,
AP

We have seen one case where someone was asked to pay excess charges in a native FTTP area, though I had my doubts and suspected someone was processing it as a Fibre on Demand by mistake.

Don't know what the eventual outcome was, but it would be very odd to both installing the final drop point and then charge high excess charges.

This is native FTTP. I have no option for FTTC. The manifold is in a pavement chamber within 20m of my front door and the aggregation point in another pavement chamber within 100m. Despite this Openreach wanted to charge PlusNet over £3000 for excess construction partly because they originally cabled up our close with armoured cable rather than putting in ducts. I believe that I am the person Mr Saffron is referring to. I am still waiting for a response from him to the enquiry he offered to make.

You can buy routers which will take a 4G dongle through a USB port to use for the WAN if you want.

Have prodded BT contact again

I am still persuing this. PlusNet cancelled the first order and re-ordered with the same result. I have spoken to them on the phone and they are completely aware that it is a native FTTP install. I have now ordered through BT Retail to see if I get a different result and am waiting for Openreach to come and do another survey this morning.

This is partly down to the fact that the houses are currently cabled for copper through armoured cable and therefore there is no ducting. However, that must have been a decision that BT made when the houses were built and not something that we should have to pay the cost for now.

Did you get any answer from BT following the query you offered to put in on my behalf?

Tx.

Yeah I saw O2 did a 4G dongle straight in , but 8Gig a month allowance for the whole house would be gone in a couple of days !