i have to add that when i look at the area i work in on that site it makes no sense.

mentions newton mearns exchange on a pcp fed from maryhill so i would take the info on that site with a hug pinch of salt

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

"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.

It does sound like the Nynex >> NTL >> Virgin ones near here. That's about the distance between them.

To the OP - if there is a long cabinet number on it then this is the case. BT ones seem to be double-digit at the most round here, though I expect there are many 3-digit elsewhere.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

It does sound like the Nynex >> NTL >> Virgin ones near here. That's about the distance between them.

To the OP - if there is a long cabinet number on it then this is the case. BT ones seem to be double-digit at the most round here, though I expect there are many 3-digit elsewhere.

I'm fairly sure they are all BT cabs. There's no cable services in my area, so can't be Virgin. They have short numbers on them and look like this:

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/5127/cab0.jpg

I didn't realise it was unusual to have cabs so close to each other.

Looks like BT to me.

Hi Yerman
Just an update... A BT Openreach engineer came round to sort out a fault this morning and while he was round, I asked him about why my cabinet appeared to have been 'missed out'. He told me that it hasn't been missed out - and he had personally overseen the upgrade to FTTC a couple of weeks earlier. It turns out that the cabinet I thought was mine, is not even a BT cab, despite being identical to the other BT cabs in the area. He thinks the one nearer to me might be a utility monitoring station or control point. Odd as it looks exactly the same to me:

http://tinyurl.com/2uorwf9

So anyhow, it turns out my cabinet is a little further away. The good news is that it's visibly been upgraded and has it's big brother cab installed next to it. I'll probably be going with BT Infinity (Option 2) as well - others are just too expensive and my current ISP doesn't offer it.

Any news on yours?

Edited by deleted (Wed 08-Dec-10 13:18:26)

Did anyone ever find out if they link multiple cabinets together?

According to the checker using our phone number we're due to to get fttc at the end of March.

After speaking to an engineer I believe our cab is about 200 yards away and hasn't been upgraded yet however there is another cab that is also about 200 yards away from us and about 100 yards away from our cab that was upgraded in December.

They might have had to delay our cabinet upgrade due to the snow as the original go live date for us was supposed to be the end of Dec.

Edited by StuB (Tue 01-Feb-11 17:13:50)

In case anyone is interested, that looks like a typical cable company cabinet. Definately not a BT/Openreach cabinet.
This is a BT/Openreach cabinet

Edited by deleted (Tue 01-Feb-11 17:47:04)

Fairly sure that multiple cabinets are not linked. Think 100 metres is likely to be too far for the copper cabinet=>FTTC cabinet link cable, as it would significantly add to the overall loss/attunuation .

Edited by deleted (Tue 01-Feb-11 17:42:10)

Thanks for the reply, hopefully they'll be back to upgrade our cabinet at some point soon.

In reply to a post by Ribble:

In case anyone is interested, that looks like a typical cable company cabinet. Definately not a BT/Openreach cabinet.

Why is it "definitely not" a BT cabinet? It looks identical to other known BT cabinets in my area. Even down to the same protruding handle.