Best estimation help - cable in street to ready to order

Hello,

Please excuse this if it has been asked elsewhere (a search couldn't find anything recent)...

I have been lucky enough to have OpenReach in my estate laying fibre cable in the last few weeks - even despite the lockdown - they are troopers!

Initially we had the big cable trucks then a week or so later the cluster of vans with engineers in the manholes with pliers and kitbags etc. I had a chat with one of the engineers (maintaining a respectful distance etc) and he told me that as far as he was aware things were 'ready to go' and the fibre cable was 'up and running'.

This was at the end of March and the very beginning of April.

So the question is 'ordinarily' does anyone know how long would it take to go from laying the fibre and ensuring it was all working (what the engineer said 'he' was doing at that point), to when the website checkers will pick it up and let me order it? Every online tool says I'm only FTTC and my speeds are woeful.
Also... will the lockdown affect this - I'm guessing it will - but has anyone got any experience of how it has been affected - asking as I was genuinely surprised to see the engineers out to be fair.

Thanks very much for any helpful knowledge...

J

Even if it is all ready to go, due to the pandemic, no orders for final installation are being accepted at present.

June is being bandied about as when the provision ‘books’ reopen. There will doubtless be a bow wave of work at that time.

Two weeks back I saw a couple of external installs happening near me (i.e. up to the CSP), so my hat goes off to them.

But these are the old 2 stage installs and that I assume the internal work will have to wait to at least June, due to I haven't seem them come back yet, but at least a fibre cable has been allocated to them.

So by doing the external work would reduce the amount of work come June.

Paul

Yes Paul ...

The ‘new’ way has gone back to fitting a (different) ‘CSP’ so the first visit looks for issues, checks for light at the CBT, tests ducts to the property, checks line of sight for overhead installs, etc, etc. These have still been going ahead, so when appointments can be made it should be easier.

I also had my street cabled up for FTTP During March.

We had port testing and then it took 2 weeks until it appeared on https://www.dslchecker.bt.com/

However in those 2 weeks Openreach had logged something on roadworks.org to shut pavements to clear 2 blockages - so I think that delayed things being ready to order

But as pointed out - BT don’t even show full fibre at my address

Zen
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In reply to a post by oldskool:

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Andrews & Arnold? (aa.net.uk / aaisp.net)

Yeah, probably, it was a distance away looking from one of our windows, I could see fibre cable being fitted but that was it and then the vans drove away.

So what does this new CSP look like?

I can see why they use the connectorized cables for the speed of the install, but they would never be as good as two fibres being joint together, assuming they was joint perfectly.

Paul

In reply to a post by oldskool:

But as pointed out - BT don’t even show full fibre at my address

BT have removed all FTTP Products from their site ATM, we are on FTTP and it also says we cannot get Full Fibre even though we are on it now.

I would just check with the Openreach Checker.

Paul

Thanks very much all for your speedy replies.

In reply to this post in particular - I can't use the DSL checker tool - I have no BT phone line (I have no paid for land-line service at all in my house and the 'notional' number given to my by my ISP returns errors on the DSL checker tool - its either not connected or it correctly identifies it not as a BT one).
The only other option on that part of the tool is the Access Line ID - reading through links on here I'm not sure what exactly that is...

This is so teasing - during this time my wife and I both try to use our (very weak FTTC with the cabinet over 1km away!!) to try and VTC into work whilst my son is also smashing netflix - knowing there is fibre under the pavement less than 10 meters away... but not obtainable is really frustrating!
Looking at the big picture - I can totally wait... but... fibre!!!

What about the Openreach one? https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband and click "Use our fibre checker"

This is address-based.