Great News,just come back from a week away,got another email from Johnny McQuoid.

The cabinet was stood up on the 17th August as you noticed. According to my Openreach colleagues, the power jointing, fibre connection and copper jumpering work should be completed by end September/early October.



Johnny.

Edited by deleted (Fri 26-Aug-11 18:46:45)

Brilliant news. My wife saw them connecting cables to the cabinet a few days ago before the hole was filled in, so I guess most of the really hard work is over. So it should be pretty much as he says, on schedule. I�m looking forward to it more than Christmas!

In reply to a post by 66er:

so I guess most of the really hard work is over

It seems that the least reliable part (in terms of time-planning) of the process is connecting to power.

I guess that this is mostly governed by the need to tell the council a month in advance of any work - and the penalties faced if that work takes too long. The consequence seems to be that there is at least a month to wait for power, and if any delay is encountered, they'd prefer to fill the hole in & start a whole new month's delay, rather than continue into the next day.

All in the name of trying to reduce jams on the road

Someone was working on it today when I passed,The Cab was open and covered with a tent (cos it was raining ??).
Can you go and place your ear on the door to see if there is any humming noise coming from it,
then we'll know for sure it is up and running.

Checked this morning on my way to work. Cabinet was totally silent I�m afraid

Oh Well, just have to wait again I suppose.

True, but I think the worst is over. At least we have a cabinet now, so we know it�s only a matter of time. I don�t mind how long it takes (within reason), it was having no cabinet, and therefore no hope, that bothered me. As long as I can stream HD movies on xbox live during the Christmas holidays, I�ll be happy.

And hopefully I can stream Premier League etc without the endless buffering I get while watching.

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Now you see why I am so desperate.

Edited by deleted (Sat 03-Sep-11 10:49:51)

Yep, mines about the same really. Fibre can�t come soon enough.

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