Unlikely as 8 is planned to get it at some point. Its got it's own ID so will be a new FTTC cab

James

In reply to a post by Adsl24:

Unlikely as 8 is planned to get it at some point. Its got it's own ID so will be a new FTTC cab

Thanks for the info. I'll watch for a new box appearing in the hedge.

Cheers - Andy

I'd say it isn't going to appear on that bit of road - so will probably be down a side-street, or further down where the pavement widens. It can be up to 100 yards away.

Someone on here posted the planning information about a cabinet in West Yorkshire. The original was on a particularly narrow path, and the FTTC cabinet was tucked well around the corner - and looked like it would be pretty much invisible from the main road.

Edited by deleted (Mon 15-Aug-11 13:02:22)

Still no work near Cab 17, I stopped and had a chat to an openreach engineer, he had a printed map, of the cabs being done and said he had just done a cab very close to cab 17, i think it was cab 23, but couldn't understand why Cab 17 wasnt on the list, as he said it is one of the busiest cabs in our area
Al

Cab 23 is on The Willow/White Farm Road, near the junction with Pentre Lane. A lot of work has been going on there over the last two-three weeks, with a small FTTC cabinet (one of the 128-line models, I think) placed close to the old one. This serves a lot of outlying places (mine included), but I can't imagine it's as many as cab 17.

May the light of the fibre shine also in your cabinet very soon.
Dave
(And yes, I know it's infra-red).

A new FTTC cabinet base has now appeared near the end of Colliers Lane, it is up against the house on the right here with a newly completed trench diagonally across to the cover on the left. If you drag the picture to look to the left, Cabinet 8 is in the hedge between the electricity pole & the tree.

Edited by Rhubarb (Thu 18-Aug-11 12:30:03)

Here's a map of post codes served by WNBUC cab 17, created using batchgeo.com mentioned in other threads, with data from the PCP spreadsheet of April 13th.

It looks as though cab 17 serves a great many properties. This is pure speculation on my part, but I wonder if BT are expecting a high take-up and need to do extra work, possibly adding cabinets. Perhaps some of the experts can comment.

The map also highlights a curious anomaly: the postcode CH1 2DN is ~7.5 miles away near the centre of Chester and includes a museum and a regimental headquarters near the Castle. I've no idea whether this is an error in the data used for the spreadsheet or reflects something real - and somewhat mysterious.

Dave

In reply to a post by Rhubarb:

A new FTTC cabinet base has now appeared near the end of Colliers Lane, it is up against the house on the right here with a newly completed trench diagonally across to the cover on the left. If you drag the picture to look to the left, Cabinet 8 is in the hedge between the electricity pole & the tree.

Yup - that's about the first spot I could see that looked appropriate - but it isn't obvious where the power is going to come from. Watch for another trench in another month or so.

In reply to a post by DLS:

Here's a map of post codes served by WNBUC cab 17, created using batchgeo.com mentioned in other threads, with data from the PCP spreadsheet of April 13th.

It looks as though cab 17 serves a great many properties. This is pure speculation on my part, but I wonder if BT are expecting a high take-up and need to do extra work, possibly adding cabinets. Perhaps some of the experts can comment.

An excellent use of the mapping tool that - and it shows quite a strung-out area for the one cabinet.

There are properties north of the A55 that are over 2km away, so I'd guess they aren't going to get a good VDSL service. If their service were being designed today, I guess there would be a separate cabinet up there...

In reply to a post by DLS:

The map also highlights a curious anomaly: the postcode CH1 2DN is ~7.5 miles away near the centre of Chester and includes a museum and a regimental headquarters near the Castle. I've no idea whether this is an error in the data used for the spreadsheet or reflects something real - and somewhat mysterious.

This map at Samknows shows the exchange coverage (click on the exchange, then click on "show/hide exchange coverage") - and that doesn't go into Chester. It is probably a fault in the spreadsheet data, rather than the geo-location of the postcode (which can also happen).

That coverage map, combined with your BatchGeo map, shows that cab 17 manages to cover the entire northern extremity of the exchange.

Edited by deleted (Tue 23-Aug-11 00:42:56)

FTTC for Cabinet 8 has today moved from 30 Sept to 31 Dec according to the OR availability checker.