same here 31st of march im on lansdown rd still think go live will be end of feb / start of march but i do know there still putting cabs in haslington it self must say there moving like lighting

There is an engineer out this morning near me. I asked him when everything was to go live and he said he didn't know.

He said he was uploading software and then BT have to come back out.

I have just come home and he is working on another cabinet near me.

I live just off Leighton Avenue - Wistaston Road,and there has been no sign of work around My nearest cab opposite the garage,does'nt look like early March for Me then.

The RFS date has changed today from 31st March to the 2nd March.

I hope this is accurate!

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The RFS date has changed today from 31st March to the 2nd March.

I hope this is accurate!

Was this for your cab? I've just tried to access the BT Wholesale checker but it times out . Mine has been showing the 31st March for a while now. I don't think my cab is active yet as I can't hear any noise from it (no cooling fans)

Yes, my phone number and cabinet.

Looks promising then, the BT Wholesale checker looks to be stuffed at the moment. It is either timing out or saying that there are no details for my number.

Edited by TheHorseman (Mon 21-Feb-11 12:55:58)

Live in Salisbury Close, off Salisbury Ave - opposite side of town.

Salisbury Ave is about 200m long, with a cabinet each end of it, to the Willaston exchange. Last summer BT connected both cabinets to the exchange - at one point, working 24/7 AND on Sundays (apparently something went wrong...). Willaston exchange is 1.9km away.

Our cabinet is between the other two - yep, they were pulling fibre right past it, and were even working on it, sorting out distance related problems, etc. Its also 1.9km from Haslington exchange. But the line length is 5m+ as it dog legs out to the Post Office, and then on to the old exchange site towards Haslington (the real Haslington). Why oh why that happened - the estate is only 4 years old - no one knows.

The RFS date for WMHAS has jumped all over the calendar 2010 to 2012. Using the Infinity checker we were told we would get service as of 311210. That changed to 010311, and now 310311. So far, no sign of any fibre being laid. And I doubt it will. The cabinet serves 166 households - less if you exclude the apartments. The path to WMHAS is convoluted, and given the experience in Basingstoke I think BT are going for cabinets which have 'straight-line' paths to exchanges, e.g very very few changes of direction.

I run a lot, and saw most of the Willaston fibre being deployed, and it was all in cabinets that had only one or two corners to the exchange... I hope there was an awful lot more I didn't see.

What is depressing is that this is the future for much of Britain: not 'high'-speed FTTH, or even 'fast' ADSL2 services, but instead flaky 2-3mbit connections capable of supplying a consistent 200kb/sec at best, and averaging 100k/bit. Yet with some imagination and foresight, BT could make inroads into these slow-spots and drag them forward, rather than widening an already deep divide.

Stil says 31st march for me on landsdown rd and I checked a number on hungerford rd but my parents house on holland st has gone to the 2nd march so looks like one side of Crewe is good to go next week. Interesting thing was they dug up the cab again on landsdown but it's all filled back in todAy so not sure if that was the power not seen cable anyone now if they feed the ducts or if they do lay how long it takes

Cheers Daren

Still gives the 31st for me too (Greenway). All holes filled in around my cab a couple of weeks ago or more ( cab is at top of Middlewich Street).