There's 19 properties listed for your postcode, assuming 19 lines then two go to cabinet P14 with the other 17 going to P8.

Only way you'll know which one your connected to is when one cabinet starts giving estimates and the other doesn't, or ones live and the others not, or an ISP or BT themselves tell you.

PS. Only thing distance has to do with it is the closer you are the higher the speed you should get, P8 would be the best as that's only about 250 meters by the most logical route, of course sometimes there's nothing logical about the route your phone line takes! P14 is about 500 meters depending on route. 500 meters would be good for 40 to 50 Meg depending on line quality, 250 meters could see you get the full 80 or close to it, again depends on quality of line.

Thanks once again Ronski. Looking at the picture of P8 that you supplied, the cabinet appears to be in a fairly non disruptive place. Is there any chance that BT dont need to apply for roadworks to be used at this cabinet and perhaps just put their own barriers up? Like I say there doesnt appear to be any application for roadworks on the horizon. The other scenario is that the work has already been done because the status of cabinets P8 and P14 is as follows
ESBAN Bannockburn Accepting Orders Now, perhaps there is some reason my own particular line cannot be upgraded to fibre, I have heard of this happening before?

I don't think either cabinet is live yet, I checked a few addresses last night, when doing this you must use postcodes that have 100% supplied from the cabinet, otherwise you may choose an address from another cabinet. Then using the infinity checker you can get addresses from the BT database, then input them into the address checker here

This one is right on top of P14, 1 FK78NG
This one is on top of P8, 1 FK78LG

Neither are showing speed estimates, but thats normal, some can show months before, others will show estimates just before they go live.

Oh and here's a map of post codes supplied by those cabinets

In England I'm certain they would have to apply for a roadworks permit, don't know if its any difference in Scotland. I would suggest taking a drive/walk and seeing if both already have their FTTC twins installed, they can be anywhere within a 100 meters of the PCP.

you could always offer to fund the cabinte by the local community (using private money) - use contact openreach web page to ask for a quote (you can do this only because the exchnage is enabled but the cabinet is outside the commercial critera

Information on your search is displayed below. Note: You may have more than 1 cabinet serving your postcode.

Cabinet Probability Uplift Phase Status Type
P9 62% 23.46 8a Part of deployment FTTC (Fiber to the Cabinet)
P21 37% 22.72 8a Part of deployment FTTC (Fiber to the Cabinet)


I did a search of the cabinets in my area, where do i go to contact BT for activation date?

In reply to a post by R0NSKI:

I don't think either cabinet is live yet, I checked a few addresses last night, when doing this you must use postcodes that have 100% supplied from the cabinet, otherwise you may choose an address from another cabinet. Then using the infinity checker you can get addresses from the BT database, then input them into the address checker here

This one is right on top of P14, 1 FK78NG
This one is on top of P8, 1 FK78LG

Neither are showing speed estimates, but thats normal, some can show months before, others will show estimates just before they go live.

Oh and here's a map of post codes supplied by those cabinets

In England I'm certain they would have to apply for a roadworks permit, don't know if its any difference in Scotland. I would suggest taking a drive/walk and seeing if both already have their FTTC twins installed, they can be anywhere within a 100 meters of the PCP.

Thanks again Ronski.

Took a walk this morning, first to P8 which is only 1 min walk away. As I entered that street the first thing I saw was Openreach van!! However I suspect it is parked outside the drivers house as there was no activity, the van was still misted up with the early morning condensation as if it has been there all night, and it is Sunday after all - oh well!
The existing P8 cabinet does have a shiny new fibre cabinet adjacent to it though, so thats something. Do BT put the cabinets in place and then come back in future to connect lines, or could this cabinet be live to certain lines?

Next to P14, which is at least 4-5 mins from my house.
Found a cabinet which has 14 painted on it so no doubt there, unfortunately no new Fibre cabinet in the immediate vicinity.
So a bit of progress made, but still nothing concrete. Why do BT have to be so secretive? If they were to tell me that Fibre to my cabinet was 6 months away, even a year, it would almost be better than the not knowing.

Cabinet is put in place first, then they will run in the tie cables between the PCP and the fibre cabinet, then power is connected and finally fibre from the exchange is connected. After the cabinet is installed the latter items could be done any any order really and there could be months between each step, and finally it will need to be checked and commissioned.

Once cabinet is live all lines connected to the PCP should be able to order, as long as they are not too far away and there is enough capacity in the FTTC cabinet. I say should as there have been database errors which until sorted stopped people ordering.

One of the reasons they appear so secretive is they simply don't know when it will be completed, there can be problems connecting power and running in the fibre from the exchange - the fibre may not be fed from your local exchange.

Edited by R0NSKI (Sun 21-Oct-12 14:15:10)

think worth checking with the planning authority to see if cab which does not have a dslam (Fibre cab) has either been delayed . objected too or not applied for

If not applied for likely not be part of commercial deployment -- the "list" that keeps gettign referred to is an Openreach decisioning sheet at a specific moment in time and is subject to change of technology, or exclusion and is reviewed regularly to see if still with in our criteria for commercial deployment - (commerical deployment finished in 2014)

Quite true, the data dates from December 2011, so could well be out of date.

That said BT's own live data shows a street side DLSAM under postcode FK7 8NG, and this is very near the location of Cab 14 - please refer back to this post to verify this. It's quite possible the cabinet is installed, but the anon poster didn't spot it, it can be up to 100 meters away. If it's not installed it may well still be scheduled, otherwise why would it show up in my checks.

Was supposed to be FTTC-enabled in June, then in September, and am now seeing this on the BT DSL checker:

'Your cabinet is planned to have WBC FTTC by 31st December 2012. Our test also indicates that your line currently supports a fibre technology with an estimated WBC FTTC Broadband where consumers have received downstream line speed between 18.1 to 72.3 Mbps and upstream line speed between 4.2 to 20 Mbps.'

Might PCP17 finally get FTTC by the 31st December or is this yet another promise that BT wont bother to keep?