Huawei & ECI

Tomorrow is the last day of rolled out G.INP for all the remaining Huawei cabinets.

From 2nd April the rest of ECI cabinets are start to roll out G.INP and should completed by end of June.

Without replacing my ECI modem with my HG612 is there a way to tell what cabinet mine is?

I seem to remember it is a Huawei but when the line was installed the new ECI modem I was given gave slightly better speeds than my HG612 (On SP10 at the time but now flashed with SP08).

In reply to a post by adslmax:

Tomorrow is the last day of rolled out G.INP for all the remaining Huawei cabinets.

From 2nd April the rest of ECI cabinets are start to roll out G.INP and should completed by end of June.

Thanks for the headsup, I'm monitoring my HG612 so I should see it change to G.INP shortly, fingers crossed

Do you know how many cabinets they do a day? I'm guessing it's a simple config change for each cabinet, or maybe they do them all in batches in one area.

In reply to a post by D_an_W:

Without replacing my ECI modem with my HG612 is there a way to tell what cabinet mine is?

I seem to remember it is a Huawei but when the line was installed the new ECI modem I was given gave slightly better speeds than my HG612 (On SP10 at the time but now flashed with SP08).

Do you know what it looks like?

If you find the closest one to your house there's a chance you could be connected to it.

Which one from here: http://www.robertos.me.uk/html/street_cabinets_etc.html ?

Thanks, pretty sure it's one of these. It's only 90m away but the weather is rubbish atm so will try and get a picture in the morning

http://www.robertos.me.uk/html/bt_furniture_2.html

Edited by D_an_W (Wed 01-Apr-15 00:15:11)

If you are on a "BT" line, not an LLU one, then this checker will tell you your PCP (phone cabinet) number on the line above the estimates table. You should be able to find it, as they generally have their number on them.

The FTC cabinet will be at most 100 metres away, (though 80 metres is also ringing a bell), and almost certainly within 50 cable metres.

It's cabinet 65 and I might go for FTTP instead as it's available

FTTP on Demand 330 30 -- Available

In reply to a post by dave2150:

Do you know how many cabinets they do a day? I'm guessing it's a simple config change for each cabinet, or maybe they do them all in batches in one area.

BT reported 45,000 lines per day; I reckon that means between 600 and 1,000 cabinets per day.

However, upgrade of the cabinet does not necessarily mean the line profile changes immediately.

It was 24 days between my cabinet upgrade (visible as a 10 minute outage overnight on a BQM) and my line profile changing. Not once, either before the cab upgrade or afterwards, did my line hit any of the old thresholds that would trigger DLM, so the change in line profile was a surprise.

You would need very deep pockets for FTTPoD. A few weeks ago openreach stopped accepting orders for it anyway - probably in order to concentrate their resources on the BDUK rollout that I think has penalty clauses for overruns.

See the dark blue part of this price list. Bear in mind those are ex vat, and are the prices charged to CPs such as BT Wholesale. Both they and the retail ISPs would add a margin and then Vat on the total.

Edited by RobertoS (Wed 01-Apr-15 01:09:06)

Cab 65 on what exchange?

In reply to a post by D_an_W:

It's cabinet 65 and I might go for FTTP instead as it's available

FTTP on Demand 330 30 -- Available

Sorry it not available as Openreach had stopped this FTTPoD. Plus you need to win the lottery to afford this very very expensive From £0 to £3,000 for installation (depend on Band A to F) and that excluding VAT. Then a monthly charge of £200+ (excluding VAT) and a minimum term of 36 months contract.

The best way to get 2 x FTTC as a bonding together as it would be cheaper than FTTPoD.

I was just joking about the FTTP...would be nice though!

I am pretty certain these are my cabinets...
https://db.tt/4T2bsFtk

Just as a heads up on exceptions, there are a few hundred locations in Surrey where FTTC is slow and available to order, but the premises also have native FTTP available.

The low wide one is the PCP and should have a number on. The tall one is a Huawei 288.

Edited by RobertoS (Wed 01-Apr-15 14:14:55)

In reply to a post by adslmax:

... From £0 to £3,000 for installation (depend on Band A to F) and that excluding VAT.

From the OR Price List I linked to for him, the minimum FTTPoD installation charge to the CP is £1100 (+ VAT)

Looks more like the Huawei Max 288 on your site, RobertoS.

Oops! Thanks .

I must have had my eyes half shut. Even now I can hardly see the grilles apart from the small bottom left one, but completely missed the double doors! It still looks very narrow to me, as though the picture has had its width reduced.

So how do you know this?

Can we have a source please?

In reply to a post by WWWombat:

In reply to a post by dave2150:

Do you know how many cabinets they do a day? I'm guessing it's a simple config change for each cabinet, or maybe they do them all in batches in one area.

BT reported 45,000 lines per day; I reckon that means between 600 and 1,000 cabinets per day.

However, upgrade of the cabinet does not necessarily mean the line profile changes immediately.

It was 24 days between my cabinet upgrade (visible as a 10 minute outage overnight on a BQM) and my line profile changing. Not once, either before the cab upgrade or afterwards, did my line hit any of the old thresholds that would trigger DLM, so the change in line profile was a surprise.

Thanks for the info.

I just had a 6-8 minute cabinet outage, first time in the 2 years I've had FTTC that the DSL link has gone down.

Odd that this happened at this time of day rather than overnight, as I'd assume for cabinet upgrades.

HG612 stats showed my line being perfectly stable before the outage, healthy and stable SNR, no errors etc. Maybe it was just an engineer fiddling around in the cabinet installing someone else's FTTC, will see soon I guess,

When it came back up, I'd lost 1mbit upload sync speed, no G.INP yet, I'll keep monitoring it and report back when/if it gets enabled on my line.

Edited by dave2150 (Thu 02-Apr-15 18:47:49)