Deployed, Phase 9b, Uplift 10.91

In reply to a post by MostlyHarmless:

Deployed, Phase 9b, Uplift 10.91

Same as mine (also in Chippenham)

I haven't got any signs of a new cab yet so it'll be a long wait for us

The december spreadsheet not has this P65 cab changed from no to yes, and also has the uplift speeds listed.

I still live in hope that 1 day it might happen!

Gary

Is there anything in the spreadsheet for Washington, NE38 9DZ?
Apparently FTTC is due sometime this year.

Thanks

my postcode of about seventy houses (new estate, seven years old) is served by three different cabinets. The december spreadsheet shows three cabinets, one on 60% of lines, one on 30% and one on the remainder, but only the 30% one is getting FTTC enabled.

Of course i dont know which cab i am on. I only have one line into the house at the moment, but i did have a second line for a time, how likely is it that i might have one line on one cab, and another redundant line on another cab?

@Magpie

You appear to be connected to the Washington exchange.

The infinity checked says by end 2012....

But the spreadsheet says

NEWAS WASHINGTON NE389DZ {NEWAS}{P25} 0 100% 15 8a Yes FTTC

so its planned to be done at some point this year.

The uplift is x 15.. so you must have some truly terrible broadband in your area ?

Edited by deleted (Thu 12-Jan-12 20:57:12)

Thanks, Moradin. Indeed we do have terrible broadband, huge swathes of the area get less than 2meg, I personally have a fairly consistent 1.5meg on a long line of 62-63dB of attenuation. Frustrating that VM are also in the area but are not apparently keen to expand.
You might understand why I'm desperate for news that FTTC is coming my way! Does the spreadsheet indicate which cab I'm connected to and if it will be enabled if I send you some address details?

The answer is in the string quoted

NEWAS WASHINGTON NE389DZ {NEWAS}{P25} 0 100% 15 8a Yes FTTC

100% of lines for that postcode are connected to cabinet 25 on NEWAS exchange.

Understand your frustration I went from similar ADSL speeds to 40Mb/s connection on FTTC and get a usable speed over 20 times what I had before. Worth the wait.

Thanks for your clarification of the string, asturini, I wasn't aware of what it all meant. Looking forward to later in the year!

In reply to a post by gazter:

Of course i dont know which cab i am on. I only have one line into the house at the moment, but i did have a second line for a time, how likely is it that i might have one line on one cab, and another redundant line on another cab?

Almost certainly no chance whatsoever. A second "line" usually comes to the house housed within the same cable as the first (as a second pair), and therefore goes back to the same distribution point. From there it is highly likely to go back to the same cabinet. Not *totally* certain, but high.

And no, you don't get to ask BT to install a new line back to a certain cab either.