As Cab 13 is clearly elderly, and seems to have Broadband, do you know where the associated FTTC is located?.

Generally the FTTC is close to the PCP, the closer the better, so worth checking that the newer cabinet has vents on the hidden face, probably at the left, looking at it from the footpath.

That newer cabinet should have a Mains Warning sign, on one of the end faces if it is an FTTC - none if it is a simple PCP.

You should also try to establish exactly what that third cabinet is.

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LOcations for newer cabinets, FTTC or PCP are partly dependent on the location of existing phone ducting, with the complication for FTTCs that a Mains Supply is also needed.

Keep in mind that the underground cables involved contain typically 100 pairs of wires, which rise up inside the individual cabinets, before the outer insulation and protection is stripped off until in situ, so moving individual phone connections over even the apparently short distance is relatively difficult.

I hadn't wanted to hi-jack this thread it was only because i'd had the same notification through, but the Fibre twin for Cabinet 13 is very near it, from my google street view link if you go forward onto the road you will see the BT van - opposite that is the fibre enabled and ready to order cab with a sticker on it - anyone on cabinet 13 is fibre enabled and can order.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.7304004,-3.4161996...


My friend is on Cabinet 25 and cannot order fibre as there is no fibre twin, just strikes me as odd that two PCP's being that close together would have one fibre enabled and the other not.

I'd assumed that cabinet 25 is full of business lines hence it not being enabled and 13 being more residential, which kind of made no sense as he is residential BUT then i realised that he is in an old farm building so may have been classed as a business when the line was first ordered.

Is it likely that BT would have had two PCP/s - one for residential and the other business - this is the entrance to Exeter airport.

Thanks, Solchain.

That does surprise me also, particularly given the expansion of Exeter Airport in recent years.

One would expect there to be a greater demand for Broadband from the businesses.

So the "remote cabinet" opposite the Openreach Van is the FTTC for the clearly labelled older PCP Cab 13 - at some distance apart, adding about 50 Meters to the D-sides of any BB Subscriber on Cab 13.

("My" FTTC is physically 40 Metres from its PCP; but the Link Cable adds about 50 M total, to the D-Side - ironic as the FTTC is only 10 M from my front door and I can see inside it from my lounge when its door is opened.)

Are you able to confirm that there are no Vents or Mains-Warning labels on the footpath side of the apparent newer PCP Cab 25 standing beside the clearly labelled older PCP 13?

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Although almost 500 miles north, I have some knowledge of Exeter plus Airport and the Met Office HQ.