Quickest cabinet?

The cabinet that serves my parents was installed and accepting orders within around 3 weeks. Never known it so quick!

Anyone seen a quicker one?

On the other hand, the pavement for the cabinet I'm served by was spray painted in April and still no signs

I've heard about equally fast stuff on here, admittedly it's quite rare though. I suppose it depends on how you look at it, a new-build estate in my town got their heads together and changed BT's initial decision about enabling a cabinet in 2012 (They weren't going to, because without the new estate, its lines were about 95% business) and so you could say therefore that they had zero wait, because even the earliest handful of people to move in had the fibre twin cabinet installed and accepting orders.

Another cabinet which was in the same "phase" (pre-BDUK contracts being finalised, live date for 2012), and never in doubt of being enabled, is standing there physically as I type, but not accepting orders. I always watch roadworks.org and this week, the third lot of "NGA overlay" work, with the cabinet listed in the works description, is just being completed. It's still only duct 54 or 57 or whatever going in, so unless they've done it simultaneously, they'll still have to shove the plastic tubing (or "sub-duct") through about half a mile of ducting, before they then blow fibre through that and get it to the cabinet. I feel lucky I'm not fed by that cabinet and wanting fibre.

Edited by deleted (Sat 03-Sep-16 02:01:30)

Our cab was hit by a lorry as it's inbetween warehouse doors of a tool hire company. New unit put in - ports filled and taking order the next day. 16 days from install to service technically. (it had not been used for months prior)

Don't think that counts really Power and fibre and copper cable links would have all be in place.

This was a brand new fttc cab install.

so which cab was that then

I've heard . I suppose it depends on how you look at it, a new-build estate in my town got their heads together and changed BT's initial decision about enabling a cabinet in 2012 (They weren't going to, because without the new estate, its lines were about 95% business) and so you could say therefore that they had zero wait, because even the earliest handful of people to move in had the fibre twin cabinet installed and accepting orders.

which exchange and cab ?

EAHAS, PCP 7

It's literally at the "mouth" of the town's industrial estate, but a new residential estate (not shown on Google Maps/Earth yet) now exists to the east of the industrial estate. There are something like 200 properties there. Whilst the new estate was being built, the PCP's status went directly from not getting a fibre twin, to one physically appearing there and accepting orders when the estate was half-built. The fibre cab is an ECI 128-line one.

Edit: I think the ECI 128 and 256-line cabs look externally the same, don't they? Well, it's ECI, anyway.

Edited by deleted (Sat 03-Sep-16 16:22:15)

don't think your information is quite correct -- I think it was enabled as part of the BDUK government programme and the housing estate are just lucky that the cab was enabled by part of the Government project

youd ben surprised or not about how many new housing estates don't have any re conversation around fibre broadband on their site and likely if you purchase a new house even today you might find it only has copper broadband and a nice new green box at the entrance to the development

In reply to a post by lee111s:

Don't think that counts really Power and fibre and copper cable links would have all be in place.

This was a brand new fttc cab install.

Aww

In reply to a post by Fastman2:

youd ben surprised or not about how many new housing estates don't have any re conversation around fibre broadband on their site and likely if you purchase a new house even today you might find it only has copper broadband and a nice new green box at the entrance to the development

Yep, this is the case with a couple of new estates round here that were started some 8 years ago, still on sub 2meg! Although they are now in the scope of the currenty phase 2 BDUK and are all scheduled to be done by December this year.

All housing estates that have started within the last 12 months all seem to be going FTTP.

The quickest cab i have seen could do 138MPH.

Mine took 2 weeks after the cabinet was first installed. But my parents cabinet was 6 weeks later (because of fibre blow blocked problem)

that's not quite correct either -- anything registersed post February 2016 with openreach and subject to some size peramaters should have some form of fibre broadband

if site was pre that date could still get left with voice only -- depending what the developer requested / not requested

The estate I'm buying on still has sub 2meg speeds. It's in the plans for BDUK upgrade however.


The house I'm buying is only being included because it's on a cabinet that was ear marked for upgrade last year.

The clueless BDUK folks tell me that I won't get FTTC as the postcode didn't exist when they done the market review and seem to think connections in cabinets are split into postcode areas so there'll be no "space" according to them, for FTTC on the new postcode. I of course, know that to not be the case as so long as my line to be is connected to an upgraded cabinet and is within line length limitations, the FTTC will be available

In reply to a post by Fastman2:

don't think your information is quite correct -- I think it was enabled as part of the BDUK government programme and the housing estate are just lucky that the cab was enabled by part of the Government project

Yeah, heard about all of that - I was just watching the cabinet's progress at is happened, that's all. I knew it was probably initially going to be down for "No fibre because of business", and that's indeed what happened. I've just looked on codelook and seen that it's listed as going live as part of BDUK phase 10a, like one other cabinet off the exchange, which serves a small village about 2/3 miles away. That also is an ECI cabinet.

Strange, all of the other BDUK and superfast extension programme-enabled cabinets (and two FTTrN nodes) are Huawei. I can see that those two mentioned above went live in 2013, but PCP 7's fibre twin almost certainly got installed in 2012, along with several other commercial-rollout cabinets, I think with PCPs 1 and 15. They did the first 6 here in sets of three, a couple of months apart, the others are all listed as "Phase 08a" (like mine, PCP3). The massively delayed cabinet I was talking about was PCP5's twin, it's now down as being "phase 16a", and labelled "FTTC being Connected, live due by May 2016", but was originally set to go live in 2012. It's an ECI cabinet which has been there for... er, ages.

Edited by deleted (Sun 04-Sep-16 18:42:19)

19 Days for me.

Linky

13 days - install completed on 20th November, taking orders very early on the morning of the 3rd of December.