Thanks for your response MHC and the others that contributed, I'll have to be patient and keep checking the checker from time to time, at least I'm not too bad speedwise. I know some people in this south heavy town who can barely get a connection due to the length of line from the exchange.

Shame there's not an option to enter your postcode for an update when it will be ready at your local cab, saves the checking then. I know you can register interest but that's a general thing for the exchange to see potentially how many people would want it isn't it?

Edited by deleted (Tue 26-Jun-12 16:54:19)

Slight correction, Openreach has 85,000 cabinets in the UK

With the number of external factors it will be difficult to keep to dates, and impossible due to local issues that residents may not even be aware of. e.g. if a duct clearing team is delayed in next door town by extra work, then dates may slip for cabs in another town.

Planning and project management is great, and am sure someone has details of which teams are working where, and a constantly shifting set of chess pieces.

Openreach has chosen to just give the public three monthly sized windows. At least those with a date know something is coming, millions of us watch and can only wonder what will happen by May 2015

It was just a guess - although 14 per exchange sounds a little low and works out at around 200 lines per cabinet and when there are some cabinets I know of with just 5 or 10 connection lines.

In reply to a post by MHC:

It was just a guess - although 14 per exchange sounds a little low and works out at around 200 lines per cabinet and when there are some cabinets I know of with just 5 or 10 connection lines.

It is a bit low because my local exchange has 94 PCP's connected to it and if I recall Kensington and Chelsea has 108 or something like that.

Approximately 88,000 PCP's according to Openreach. Kensington and Chelsea borough is served by several exchanges and probably quite a bit of E/O. Only about half the cabinets were in line to get FTTC.
Plenty of exchanges with just a handful of cabinets.

Edited by deleted (Wed 27-Jun-12 00:21:16)

I've had this too, a little frustrating. They've multiple times had roadworks permission to put in the cabinets, March, April, May, and June, yet each one comes and goes without anything been done with the slots

I registered my interest in upgrading my existing BT B/band to FTTC months ago, and their forecast date has moved backwards since. However, my existing service is speeding up, and more than justified leaving Orange (with all their false promises of increasing my download speed). So I'm now less hyper about FTTC, and will just go with BT's flow of updates re when FTTC is fired up @ our local exchange.
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In reply to a post by arfster:

I've had this too, a little frustrating. They've multiple times had roadworks permission to put in the cabinets, March, April, May, and June, yet each one comes and goes without anything been done with the slots

They have done the same thing when scheduled to clear ducting or put in new ducting, so it isn't only the actual cab installs that don't get done on time or first time, in this area they seem to have left everything until last minute with next to no planning, they remind me of council workers they operate in a similar fashion,

I've got a 61db downstream att and sync anywhere from 2600kbps to 3600kbps depending on router, this will not increase as just too far from the exchange.

Roll on FTTC!