Cabinet 17 now taking orders!!! Ordered for earliest date for install, next Friday.estimate of 30mbits down and 6 up a ten-fold improvement. Hopefully it will be a wee bit higher than that.

PCP17 covers pike road and the houses in the estates to the south both sides of the road. For reference, my house is on the southern extremities of the area covered by pcp17 1km from cabinet.

Nigel

i've been following this post for some time and finally decided/got round to registering.
congrats dude, glad your finally getting fibre
my cousin up the road (in the king robert hotel area) has fibre and the speeds are eye watering

im on cabinet p7, which according to various checks is fttc enabled

im also with talktalk (but not for much longer)
before joining them last month i was told "fibre is avaliable on your line"
i'd be able to book it as soon as the broadband went live,
suprise suprise, it went live and then the availabilty checker reported "fibre is coming soon"
i've phoned countless times explaining that my exchange and cabinet is enabled and that the error is with their system but to no avail

ive emailed open reach asking for confirmation so we'll see how that goes

if it is confirmed then im cancelling talktalk and going with another isp

Talk Talk seem to slow at getting the Cablelink installed so that they can offer fibre. Round my was it was about 7 months after BT and Sky were offering fibre before you could place an order with them.

i was happy sharing my neighbours wifi at 15meg
but when they offered fibre that was the incentive to get my line active again

it just angers me that i was basically lied too just to get me signed on to a contract
so im thinking of cancelling today then migrating to sky
via a complaint to ofcom about shoddy unlawful buisness practices

i'm a bit of newb when it comes to exchanges, cabinets ect
am i right in thinking that each isp has to put in theire own cablelink after the cabinets have been fttc'd?
if thats the case, then they should maybe spend less time trapping folks into contracts and more time upgrading cabs that are fttc enabled.

i know im going on about them a bit, but i've been on the phone to them all morning get passed around by people who are neither able to comprehend the problem or the english language and my blood pressure is through the roof.

In reply to a post by cyanide1980:

i'm a bit of newb when it comes to exchanges, cabinets ect
am i right in thinking that each isp has to put in theire own cablelink after the cabinets have been fttc'd?
if thats the case, then they should maybe spend less time trapping folks into contracts and more time upgrading cabs that are fttc enabled.

It's only the LLU providers that require the cablelink to connect to their own networks.

Any ISP's that resell BT's products should be able to offer fibre products straight away.

In reply to a post by cyanide1980:

im also with talktalk (but not for much longer)
before joining them last month i was told "fibre is avaliable on your line"
i'd be able to book it as soon as the broadband went live,
suprise suprise, it went live and then the availabilty checker reported "fibre is coming soon"
i've phoned countless times explaining that my exchange and cabinet is enabled and that the error is with their system but to no avail

Hi there just noticed your post. I am also with TalkTalk, and so far have had no major issues. If you have not already done so register on the TalkTalk Members Forum, they are actually very good and the staff (called OCE's) will look into any complaints.. They do take time as they only work Mon-Fri (usually) but it's better then calling Customer Services.

Just thought I'd let you know.

thanks man, will give it a go

heres a link to my talktalk post if anyone wants to follow
http://www.talktalkmembers.com/forums/showthread.php...

Nigel,

You'll be champing at the bit now! If you want the openreach kit somewhere else in the house ask the engineer for the data extension kit they'll fit a data extension socket anywhere you like (within reason)

The checker for cabinet p4 gave estimates of 48/8 but in reality it is nearer the full whack so I'll not be surprised when you report back that you are getting much higher speeds than the estimate. Who is your ISP? If it is Plusnet the FTTC router they supply is pants. I'm using a BT Homehub 3 at the mo which is much more reliable.

Hope your install goes smoothly, look forward to you posting your first impressions!

Iain

Edited by deleted (Sun 24-Mar-13 12:20:13)

Hi

I've got an Asus RT-N66U thats giving me 250Mbit/sec wireless speeds on 5GHz so hopefully that will do the trick. I did order the plusnet router cause it was £5.99 P&P, and free router. I will shove it on fleabay and hopefully get more than £5.99 P&P charge!

The Asus has a built in VPN server which I look forward to using at reasonable speeds post FTTC!

WIll deffo post results!

Nigel