My cabinet has gone live, not sure where it is as it isn't next to the cabinet my phone line comes from, able to order from both BT and Sky though, shame my house is up for sale

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My cabinet has gone live, not sure where it is as it isn't next to the cabinet my phone line comes from, able to order from both BT and Sky though, shame my house is up for sale

Well that is a bummer isnt it!

My BT Infinity was installed this morning - full 80 / 20 but I am at work so can't play with it

In reply to a post by Metallifux:

My cabinet has gone live, not sure where it is as it isn't next to the cabinet my phone line comes from, able to order from both BT and Sky though, shame my house is up for sale

How do you find out if yur cabinet has gone live so you can place an order? I'm on cabinet 16 next to Main Post Office on Station Road. Allot of activity there weeks ago with BT guys working on new cabinet over a few weeks,last one I saw was joining the fibre cables to cabinet that was about 6 weeks ago closely followed by a guy with a laptop connected to cabinet.

Enter your phone number here (with out a space)

https://www.btwholesale.com/includes/adsl/main.html

If your not on a BT supplied line (EG LLU) then enter your house number and postcode here

http://www.dslchecker.bt.com/adsl/ADSLChecker.Addres...

thanks for the links for checking if cabinet live, appears mine is not yet says by 30th Sept but my mothers nearer the exchange is showing live and can order. It appears they are activating cabinets one by one, I'll have to keep checking

Yep, they can be one at a time or half a dozen, just depends how many are ready. There may be delays with your cabinet or it could go live tomorrow.

It's always worth trying a few other addresses on your cabinet, in case there is a database error.

You can use this checker ( http://www.coolwebhome.co.uk/fibre/checker.php ) to find other addresses on your cabinet, only use ones showing 100% to actually check if the cabinet is live, otherwise you may choose an address that's on another cabinet.

Since my last post about speaking to a guy installing the fibre tube which the fibre gets blown through (he mentioned FTTP coming to this area) i have seen another guy working in the ducts up the halfmoon bank today so i asked him about the fibre to my cab as im still waiting for my cabinet to go live and he mentioned the same thing.

I never asked him he just brought it up that this FTTC is just the 1st stage and "very soon" (his words) they will be running the fibre down to the poles for FTTP.He mentioned it is mainly for business's.

I thought the 1st guy was maybe just mis-informed but this 2nd chap mentioned it too so maybe openreach really are going to treat us to FTTP in the ashington/stakeford area.

Im not too fussed as the FTTC will be a huge boost to my 2mb speed anyway but it would be nice to have the option. 330mb downstream does sound tempting for the right price.

He is proably reffering to FTTP on demand, unless their has been FTTP planned for Ashington since the December 2011 spreadsheet which lists FTTC for Ashington.

How about an update Kris, did the install go ok?

Hi,

Was just coming to post about it

The engineer called a bit before 8am to say he was about to start work in the cab and that the broadband would go down and that he'd be over in 20 minutes.

He replaced the socket i have (self install NTE5) with an Openreach one and installed the modem.

He said I was the first activation on the cab (which I kind of expected) and that I was his first Sky install, so I showed him the router screens etc.

I had already setup the router before he arrived - I knew the sky fibre router was the same as the ADSL router but with a custom firmware - what I didn't know until I installed it was that the ADSL side is still live and so it can work with both ADSL and FTTC. This allowed me to already have the sky router setup and working before I got FTTC. It was simply a case of removing the RJ11 cable and connecting the Openreach modem via ethernet.

I haven't heard anything about when my phone line (currently using Sky wholesale line rental, so a BT line) will be moved over to Sky. I'd rather stay as a shared LLU customer but this wasn't an option.

I'm connecting at 40/10 with speed tests ranging from 30Mbit to 35Mbit. I have tried a linux torrent and got 4MB/s out of it sustained speed, so I'm happy.

Should also note he installed the modem on the wall, which the wife wasn't too happy about