In reply to a post by kitcat:

Zyborg

It sounds like you are in Hereford? Openreach may run the fibre the same as the copper cables or if there is a different 'easier' fibre route they will use that. What they are unlikely to do is lay new duct as that costs a fortune.

Yep, i am in Hereford. i know they will not new ducts. Our old exchange used to be by the cathedral and part of the building is still used as a junction, which is why our cable still runs back to it.

My typical luck to be honest, people that lives further away than me get a better speed

There is a spreadsheet that is available, linked to somewhere in these forums, that will tell you for a postcode which Cab you are on and what % of the postcode will get FTTC from that cab. Where there are multiple Cabs add the % together to see how many will not get FTTC.

i heard about this spreadsheet, and seen it, but i thought the service have to be up and running to be on it.

Just strange that the BT bloke said about a cabinet that don't exist, mind you it was off the top of his head, and one of the cabs are not that far away from where he said, so maybe he got confused.

Still at least he got my mates service sorted out, just hope it keeps working.

The FTTC service is likely to be better than the wireless, and a vast improvement on your present ADSL.

i don't deny that fact, wireless top speed is around 35Megabits, but that will cost a lot more than what I am paying now. but i don't need 40Megabits, 8-10 would do me fine to be honest.

The advantage of the wireless system is that I don't need a phone line and cabn get everything to do with Bt out of my house.
If I could get a bit more speed out of my ADSL connection I would stay as i am, I may still stay as i am.

too am waiting to see some work on our cab / exchange which has also got a June date. Not seen anything yet. Want a race?

i will have to chat to my neighbour more often, I think he will keep more of a eye on fibre than me to be honest as he really wants it, fed up with the slow speeds here so he says. i told h8im not get excited, we may get it by the end of the year.