In reply to a post by Yerman164:

I will update this thread if other cabs appear, or if I manage to find out from an engineer if multiple cabs are connected to one fibre cab.

Me too.... I'll be disappointed if I don't see big fugly cabinet appear on my road very soon! Which provider are you moving to?

In reply to a post by nmg196:

Me too.... I'll be disappointed if I don't see big fugly cabinet appear on my road very soon! Which provider are you moving to?

I think it's going to have to be BT Infinity for me. I'm not massively keen on moving from O2 to BT, but the other providers currently offering FTTC are more expensive for a lot less usage. Don't think you can beat free installation, £25 for 300GB. I don't do much P2P so any throttling shouldn't affect me.

I'd like Sky or O2 FTTC but I don't see it happening for 6-12 months, so may as well get BT Infinity then change after 18 months. Who are you thinking about moving to?

Still no life on my cab yet, there is 100% no chance this will be ready for 31 dec.

In reply to a post by Yerman164:

Also is there anyone on here who works for BT or an ISP that is able to tell me which green cab I am connected to? I would like to get some idea of my line length to the cab before I risk moving from a 10meg O2 connection to FTTC.

Plug your postcode into the map on this page and then click on the green cab picture allocated to your postcode and the little balloon will tell you which PCP you are connected to..

It's not always accurate though.
It appears to map to the nearest cabinet, which is not necessarily the cabinet you are actually served from.

AFAIK, the data comes from BT, so if there are errors then it's BT's..

In reply to a post by lockyatlrg:

Still no life on my cab yet, there is 100% no chance this will be ready for 31 dec.

I'm thinking the same for me too, no action near mine either

Using just the post code will always be inherently error prone.

A post code could be a single building or a large area covering several streets.
When mapping by post code only, the centre of the area covered by the post code is generally used as the reference point and without details of the specific line - and hence the routing of the line - there is bound to be an element of guesswork and assumptions.

If different parts of a post code area are served by two different cabs, how is it decided which one is correct?
Mapping software will (generally) make the assumption that the cab nearest to the reference point used is correct, but this is not always true.

"There are quite a few cabinets within 100m of each other near my house."

You sure those are BT cabinets ...... Lots of green cabinets near me, but only 1 is BT.

Ah yes, I see what you mean..