I've never seen it before, but I've always tended to use phone numbers in the checker, rather than the address checker.

Looking now, I can see that our existing cab can be found, with a predicted 80/20 speed.

I presume the DSLAMs go into the address listing because they end up with their own phone line - as part of the alarm & monitoring capability for each cab. And knowing the rest of BT's systems, a phone line can't be ordered unless there is an address for it to be registered against.

I guess, therefore, that it is beyond the "vague planning" stages, and into concrete provisioning.

Large Huawei. Unlikey to be stood until late summer so looking at sept/oct activation possibly.

I had naively assumed that when building name or number was marked as a required field I had to enter something, now I see it works with postcode alone.

If you already have a BT-like telephone provided over 'ordinary' telephone lines; eg almost any apart from Virgin cable,
you will get a much more reliable result by putting in your telephone number rather than your postcode.

In reply to a post by Ribble:

Large Huawei. Unlikey to be stood until late summer so looking at sept/oct activation possibly.

Hi Ribble,

Did you get the info on which cabinet it was from the NM part at the start of the designation or do you have hidden powers?

I did wonder about that as I noted a correlation between NM at the start of the code and big Huawei DSLAMs but assumption makes an ass of you and me.

The NM is generic and forms the FTTC cabinet ID. Does not identify the cabinet type.

Ours is a large Huawei, code NAAMGW.

In reply to a post by Ribble:

The NM is generic and forms the FTTC cabinet ID. Does not identify the cabinet type.

Hidden powers

Thanks for the update. I would've been astounded if anything else had been installed given takeup in local area and history behind it.

In reply to a post by yarwell:

I couldn't reproduce the example in the OP ?

The FTTC cab that appeared at the top of my road a few weeks back has an entry that I found fairly easily by postcode:

STREET SIDE DSLAM CAB NNAHWF, COLLEGE LANE, HURSTPIERPOINT, HASSOCKS, BN6 9AB on Exchange HURSTPIERPOINT is served by Cabinet 4

Talking to a friendly OpenReach guy who was working nearby, he said that the cab has both fibre and power to it, although not running yet, and he thought it wouldn't be too long before it was connected, 200 users max. That is more hopeful than the 'Dec 2014' shown for the FE site data.

Edited by tbailey2 (Wed 15-May-13 17:37:33)

Wandered past this guy today and saw a surveyor deciding where the cabinet would go.

Be interesting to see the timescales from this point on.