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Hi all,
We're planning to move to Silverstone village and I've identified the cabinet the new house is connected to as cabinet 4. If anyone has information on it's location, could you please advise me on where it is?
From the council website, it looks as though I have a year's wait at least to being fibre enabled.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
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Believe you can see the green cab in this Google Map image. It is hidden in the hedge between two properties.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.085791,-1.025733,3...
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Excellent, thank you for the confirmation. I can foresee issues with OR getting permission to put a fibre cabinet near that one.
It appears cabs 1, 3 and 7 are already fibre enabled. Just my luck to move from an area that is a month or so away from getting fibre to an area that is a year or so away from getting it. Still, at least the ADSL rates should be considerably higher.
Paul
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I can foresee issues with OR getting permission to put a fibre cabinet near that one.
They do not need permission to install the FTTC cabinet - yet. Silverstone village is not a conservation area although there are consultations under way. http://www.southnorthants.gov.uk/688 That might explain why some have been done already and others not ...
However, looking at the Google maps image would suggest a second cabinet in a similar position would be quite well disguised or hidden and way less visually obtrusive than the shared use pole.
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I was thinking more of the owners of the house(s) giving permission. However, from your comments it seems the verge the current cab is sited on is outside the home owner(s) boundary. One less hurdle!
Taking a quick glance at the link you provided (thanks) shows the place we have had an offer accepted on is outside the proposed conservation area, as is the road the current cabinet is situated on. So hopefully it's just a case of waiting now.
The current cab looks to be circa 500m away from the property so if they don't do anything radical with the fibre twin's placement, the fibre rates achieved should be on the higher side of what's available.
Paul
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People may mow the verge but very often they are council owned, and code powers means Openreach can almost just rock up and get on with it.
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The boundary line appears to be reasonable obvious and OR will only really need to consider routing for power and the tie cable. They normally try to make them unobtrusive ...
At 500m you should be fine and into the 60s - mine is 440-450m of actual cable and seeing speeds at 72Mbps peaking at 74 occasionally with full 20Mbps upstream available.
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Good to know and thanks again for the advice.
I'm attempting to narrow down the expected ADSL rates but unfortunately the current owner is ex directory so I'm unable to find their phone number the sneaky way. May have to ask the question directly. A number for a property at the end of the road, that should be further from the exchange, reports a range of rates of 8 to 18.5Mb/s. I currently manage around 9.7Mb/s on a tweaked LLU line so I should see a healthy improvement anyway... hopefully.
Paul
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The TBB Speed Test results map is fairly sparse for that area too.
You can use the Address checker at http://www.dslchecker.bt.com/adsl/ADSLChecker.address not as perfect as an existing phone number, however with the house number and postcode you should get a reasonable idea.
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Yep, done that thanks. It's coming back with a range of 6.5 to 14Mb/s. So slightly lower than the number further away from the exchange but, still a substantial improvement on what I see today.
Paul
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Believe you can see the green cab in this Google Map image. It is hidden in the hedge between two properties.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.085791,-1.025733,3... LOL, I had to zoom in due to I thought that was a wheelie bin 
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The number of times I've thought I spotted one and it was a wheelie bin 
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The number of times I've thought I spotted one and it was a wheelie bin
I hear you may be able to exchange "StreetView" miles at SpecSavers.
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Hi,
I just wanted to bump this up and see if any of you wonderful forumers could provide information on when I can expect my cabinet to be fibre enabled?
I've been keeping an eye on the council website and it appears the cabinet will be picked up in phase 2 with the end date of that now at December 2017. I'm starting to get into UHD content now and my 18Mb/s ADSL link is just short of cutting the mustard for flawless playback.
Cheers,
Paul
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Hi,
I just wanted to bump this up and see if any of you wonderful forumers could provide information on when I can expect my cabinet to be fibre enabled?
I've been keeping an eye on the council website and it appears the cabinet will be picked up in phase 2 with the end date of that now at December 2017. I'm starting to get into UHD content now and my 18Mb/s ADSL link is just short of cutting the mustard for flawless playback.
Cheers,
Paul Well I just did a quick check and couldn't find much apart from that your cabinet is not part of the phase being upgraded throughout 2016, so maybe end of 2017.
I can see that it says the following for your cabinet " Superfast Broadband coming to parts of this area by December 2017.", however I cannot see any of the non upgraded cabinets for your exchange listed as coming soon (which covers 2016) so like it says maybe end of 2017.
I can see that they are in the middle of updating a few blocks of EO Lines which are scheduled to be done for mid 2017.
According to Superfast Northamptonshire they are ahead of schedule and have already reached the 90% stage.
It seems that Phase 2 is to upgrade 6% so that 96% will have access to line speeds >24Mbps.
They expect to upgrade 23,900 premises from start of 2016 to end of 2017 leaving the remain 4% (13,000 premises) for phase 3.
That's all that I could find.
Paul
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Many thanks for putting the time in. That's all in the public domain as you've eluded to, I was just hoping that those with insider knowledge may shed a little more light.
Cheers,
Paul
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Would any of you learned folk be able to advise whether the description below, is likely to be the install of a fibre twin:
"Install 1m of poly ducts in Footway, install 9m of 2 poly ducts in Verge, Provide, Renew, Recover 1 DSLAM street cabinet and base, Install 18 of 1 way power duct in Footway, Performing an 1 excavation to expose power cable in Footway"
Work ref: BC005WP00400500211567100
That's verbatim, hence the poor punctuation, grammar and capitalisation.
It looks like the cabinet will be about 3 metres in front of the PCP cab. Cabinet in question is PCP4 fed from EMSILVE exchange.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
Edited by deleted (Tue 21-Jun-16 09:37:34)
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A DSLAM cabinet is FTTC, yes.
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There's some work starting to day to lay some ducting in the vicinity of the fibre twin. Code Look states 'Live due November 2016'. Fingers crossed this is the work to make connection to the exchange.
Paul
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The cabinet is finally active (as of about an hour ago), so I've been looking around for BB deals. One thing that's slightly concerning is that BT have sync rate quotes of between 35 and 42Mb/s down. That seems a little low to me and I've 'measured' the distance at around 600 paces, following the man holes, overhead lines and defects in the pavement where work's taken place. Do BT usually low ball on the sync rates?
For reference, on my current copper connection, the connection will sync at between 18 and 19Mb/s (@ circa 3.2dB SNRM) depending on which modem I use and when I sync the device. And Attn is 25dB - 25.5dB depending on which modem I use.
Paul
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Speeds can vary wildly, I get 45/6 at around 450 to 500 meters, some will get almost 80/20 at the same distance.
The estimates do seem to be on the cautious side, but will take into account the effects of possible crosstalk.
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Thanks, that was kind of my suspicion/ hope.
I'm just getting the service priced up with my current provider and will risk the extra cost of the 80/20 package just to experiment. At the worst, it will be £60 wasted over the 12 month contract period but, even if the down rates are on the low side, I may claw back some value on a higher than 10Mb/s upstream rate.
Paul
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