In reply to a post by mjf09:

To me it makes sense to connect those furthest from the exchange (and therefore those who have had to suffer the slowest speeds) to the fibre network first. Install took 20 mins. Speeds as advertised. Very impressed so far.

I'd agree with that if line lengths were sensible! I'm <1 mile from exchange, but with 5 miles of cable, I get 3Mbits on a good day.

Nigel

In reply to a post by gryffe:

Well I did get an automated response saying they were really busy but would reply!
Regarding what you posted about you having WBC FTTC by June 2013 - at least you have that info. Mine doesnt even predict that I have a date, so I'm guessing this means my cabinet will be activated even later than June next year?

Note that you need to use the postcode checker, and not the phone no checker to get this info... (at least for me).

3Meg over 8km of cable is pretty amazing as in they thought 2 Meg at 3.5km was the limit at one time

In reply to a post by veletron:

In reply to a post by gryffe:

Well I did get an automated response saying they were really busy but would reply!
Regarding what you posted about you having WBC FTTC by June 2013 - at least you have that info. Mine doesnt even predict that I have a date, so I'm guessing this means my cabinet will be activated even later than June next year?

Note that you need to use the postcode checker, and not the phone no checker to get this info... (at least for me).

Got a reply today

"Thank you for contacting us about fibre broadband. You are connected to Bannockburn exchange cabinet ES/BAN 8.
The delay to cabinet 8 is due to that we are waiting for the power utility company to connect power, install a meter and certify the cabinet.
Unfortunately, until the power company supply ourselves of when they expect to do the work, I subsequently cannot give yourself a date of when we expect the cabinet to go live to accept orders for fibre broadband.
We are chasing the power company and we await their reply to our requests."

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

3Meg over 8km of cable is pretty amazing as in they thought 2 Meg at 3.5km was the limit at one time

5KM of cable, not 5miles (my mistake). Still reasonable for the distance though, and I got a boost when they re-shelled the cabinet of about 0.5meg on the sync speed.

Nigel

In reply to a post by gryffe:

In reply to a post by veletron:

In reply to a post by gryffe:

Well I did get an automated response saying they were really busy but would reply!
Regarding what you posted about you having WBC FTTC by June 2013 - at least you have that info. Mine doesnt even predict that I have a date, so I'm guessing this means my cabinet will be activated even later than June next year?

Note that you need to use the postcode checker, and not the phone no checker to get this info... (at least for me).

Got a reply today

"Thank you for contacting us about fibre broadband. You are connected to Bannockburn exchange cabinet ES/BAN 8.
The delay to cabinet 8 is due to that we are waiting for the power utility company to connect power, install a meter and certify the cabinet.
Unfortunately, until the power company supply ourselves of when they expect to do the work, I subsequently cannot give yourself a date of when we expect the cabinet to go live to accept orders for fibre broadband.
We are chasing the power company and we await their reply to our requests."

This is interesting.

When I sent my email query I had not received a reply after about 4 or 5 days so sent another email saying "could somebody please reply to my query"
I then received the reply I posted above.
Today I received another email from a different person, responding to my second email, with a totally different response

"Thank you for your enquiry. You are connected to the Bannockburn Exchange, cabinet 8.

After checking our systems cabinet 8 is showing as to go-live towards the end of February 2013, barring any complications."

I wonder which of the two is most accurate?

In reply to a post by gryffe:

I wonder which of the two is most accurate?

Following Occam's razor (the simplest explanation is probably correct) and avoiding all conspiracy theories, the answer is probably: Both of them.

Or rather: both of them are an equally accurate statement of the plan, as they knew it, at the time the answer was written.

BT Openreach is currently working on Cabinet P4 (Cowie) linking it to the new FTTC cabinet next to it. I believe power is installed already. It looks like the fibre has been pulled into it, the Openreach Engineers are now linking the 2 cabinets together. I stopped and asked them if they knew when it will be activated and they both said around the end of December. According to them, everything is in place. I took some pics and will try to upload them. Hope this info is useful.

[IMG]http://imageshack.us/a/img407/6266/img0950fc.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://imageshack.us/a/img39/245/img0951sd.jpg[/IMG]

In reply to a post by wrightie:

BT Openreach is currently working on Cabinet P4 (Cowie) linking it to the new FTTC cabinet next to it. I believe power is installed already. It looks like the fibre has been pulled into it, the Openreach Engineers are now linking the 2 cabinets together. I stopped and asked them if they knew when it will be activated and they both said around the end of December. According to them, everything is in place. I took some pics and will try to upload them. Hope this info is useful.

[IMG]http://imageshack.us/a/img407/6266/img0950fc.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://imageshack.us/a/img39/245/img0951sd.jpg[/IMG]

Very useful thanks
P4 is the cabinet my line goes to, I contacted Openreach concerning this and they replied the same day telling me they expect p4 to be ready for orders around Feb 2013.
My reason for contacting them was the wholesale checker makes no mention of fttc if I check with phone number, but does with post code.

Edited by deleted (Thu 06-Dec-12 21:45:41)

I live in falkirk and my area has been fitted with a fttc cabinet quickly , at this stage they have linked the junction box and pcp to that cabinet. However not sure they have connected the power yet. Accordingling to the council street plan they had to dig part of the road adjacent to the fttc cabinet to locate the power cable. Guess I will keep an eye on roadworksscotland.org.

Were planned to live by March 2013 hopefully sooner however just need to wait and see.

Done a check on bt wholesale my postcode shows a planned fttc install with an estimated 50 to 60mb speed, when checking for address no mention of fttc and did the phone number check with sky didn't recognise the number.

Moving to BT by mid january to get the fibre the soonest, heard there is a slight delay if your with another supplier.

Good luck with getting your Bannockburn cabinet activated quickly.

Edited by deleted (Thu 06-Dec-12 22:40:18)