I have seen the cable going in last year

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just had a email back from bt saying The rollout is based on the commercial criteria for each cabinet. Initially cabinet number wnhr73 to which your line is connected was included. Unfortunately difficulties at the assessment stage regarding the site of the new cabinet have led to this being deferred out of the programme. As a result there is no date for this cabinet.

I take it that we wont be having fiber after all

I thought you lived a fair distance from the cabinet anyway, so even if there was fibre you may not be able to get it.
At least you can get a decent service, which is more than a lot of people can.

Think yourself lucky that you don't have to pay out for a Satellite service like someone I know.

yeah I do but the bt checker says I can get fiber when gose live

Satellite service is faster is up to 20mb

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Satellite service is faster is up to 20mb

Even if you do get fibre it still may not be up to the speed you want. I could have waited for Fibre as it was only a few weeks away, but I choose not to, happy with choice.

As for Satellite, it may be fast, but also so expensive. you are looking at around £25 just for a lousy 10GB of data a month, plus the pings are so high, don't ever try playing games. But sometimes that is the only way to get a decent broadband.

I was looking at it befor we had allpay

I would stay with all pay if they offer a faster speed for the price 30 is a lot of money and only getting 5-10 mb once bt have put in the new cab at Belmont abbey and see if I can get it TalkTalk is going it for 15 month

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I would stay with all pay if they offer a faster speed for the price 30 is a lot of money and only getting 5-10 mb once bt have put in the new cab at Belmont abbey and see if I can get it TalkTalk is going it for 15 month

I agree with you to a certain extent. £30 for 10Mb/s is not cheap, but then I was paying that for 3.5Mb/s ADSL. i get a far better service than what I have ever got with ADSL and from some people I know that is on fibre.

Ok you can get fibre pretty cheap, but it would cost me a fair bit to have installed now as I don't have a phone line and also I still got around 14 months left on my Allpay contract.

The problem is you only get fibre cheaper if you go for one of the larger ISPs like Talk Talk, Bt and Sky and to be honest I want to stay away from the larger ISPs, certainly Talk talk, who i would not use if they was the last ISp on this planet and BT. Sky I would have thought about using, but not now they are planning to use their spy technology.

So no other Isp that will do it for that price, so even if I did not have a contract with Allpay, I think I will stay with them for a while longer. The one advantage of allpay is that if I need to save money, I can cut down the service by lowering the speed which would still be better than what I had on ADSL, try doing that on your normal ISP, certainly when you are still in a contract.


I am not going to say I will never change to fibre, as you never know what happens in the future, but allpay for me at the moment works, I have heard of a few people who have had fibre and have had problems and it took ages to fix. I had a problem with allpay and it was fixed pretty quickly.

Another problem, certainly for you, is would you get the speed you want fibre at the distance the cabinet is from you? i agree that allpay should now be a bit more competitive in pricing, but that is now doubt made more difficult by it being a small company compared to say Bt and Talk talk and that they are getting the service from a supplier, Zen in Allpays case. but then they never started to up for people like me, I doubt there are many people in the city that is using all pay, it was started up for people out int he sticks that have no chance of getting decent broadband.

We will see what happens over the next 12 months or so, I hope Bt does your cabinet soon and you get what you want, but it all comes down to to money and how many people are going to use it.

Looking at Google street view. If the power to the defunct kiosk has been recovered the power cost would be large and it isn't exactly surrounded by houses so the commercials would be poor.

Just not enough people on it I would say. It is a very small copper cab already.

Lovely countryside to live in though.

i am connected to cab 73 which is at the Belmont abbey leybye that is a big one and if you go 2 miles up the road there is a small copper cab number 73-1 which is not in ues