In reply to a post by desouzr:

Well that's what they said. I'll see what happens in practice.

Scrap that. Just seen the new Ofcom Market A/B proposals...

Happy to report my cabinet went 'available' on Saturday 27th July.

Engineer visit booked via Plusnet for 13th August.

My Cab (Cab1 on the Pateley Bridge exchange) went live this morning. The Openreach site still has the exchange as 'coming soon' with the placeholder date moved to Dec-13. I'm guessing that this is because the only other cab on the exchange that was due to get FTTC was one to be built for the EO lines. This network rearrangement work is behind schedule so will not completed until sometime next quarter at the earliest.

Interestingly Talktalk (not my ISP) were true to their word and have LLU'd the exchange to coincide with FTTC deployment. I wonder if this will be replicated on other exchanges that are FTTx enabled via BDUK projects.

Well BDUK have delivered here!

Originally it was going to be 'sometime in 2014', then at the beginning of summer it changed to 30 Sep 2013.
On 1st October it changed to 30th October, but checking yesterday the exchange was Accepting Orders.
So only a couple of days off on their estimation.

I have ordered Fibre this today! Ended up going with BT. Hope that will prove to be OK. Looking online, they just seemed to have a slight edge over the other providers.

I don't have a bad ADSL connection downstream (16Mbps approx.) but the upload is a bit pants at under 1Mbps. I work from home and have to transfer large chunks of data backwards and forwards. I am hoping the quoted 19Mbps upload speed will help with that. And the quoted 72Mbps download speed should assist with on demand stuff too.

Can't wait for the 18th October (installation date)

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Renko31 - which exchange are you connected to?

In reply to a post by desouzr:

Renko31 - which exchange are you connected to?

Kirkbymoorside. They have been doing quite a bit of work around here. Saw them blowing the fibre a couple of weeks back, and there was a van with a cable drum on the back just near the exchange today.

Given we are a rural area, I think they are offering FTTP to outlying properties and villages served by the exchange.

Well I am now connected! BT Home Hub 5, so no modem which is nice.
HomeHub is reporting connection of 78.12Mbps down/19.53Mbps up.

For those who are interested, this was my experience.

Was on TalkTalk for phone and broadband.
Ordered BT phone and Infinity 2 via web. Kept up to date via emails and texts. Installation for Friday 18th October - morning.
HomeHub should have arrived Wednesday via Royal Mail (when I was in), but arrived Thursday (when I was out all day!).
When I got back on Thursday, my phone line was dead but broadband was still working.
Friday, broadband worked until about 9.15 when it went off. Popped to the Post Office at 9am to collect HomeHub.
Openreach engineer called about 9.30 to say he was at the cabinet and would be round in about half an hour.
Half an hour later, he turned up. Replaced the master socket, plugged in the HomeHub and used my laptop to confirm everything was working.
So I was back up and running by 10.30am.

Pretty smooth all round and a great upload speed!
Also, just to say, TalkTalk kept me informed via email and letter about my service ceasing with them, which was good.
Just hope the final payments go through smoothly.

FTTC installed this morning (was due to be last week but that's another story). I was a bit concerned when a Kelly Communications guy turned up, after reading some of the posts about the botched installs they've done. However, this guy knew his stuff. He fitted the new faceplate on an existing extension before going off to do the work at the cab. He had everything up and running in less then half an hour. My line length is about 400 metres to the cab. The prediction was 55/13. Wired speed test result below

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/button/13824...

Very happy with the result but will give it a few days to see if DLM intervenes. According to the engineer there are only about 6 people connected to my fibre cab at the moment so it will only be a matter of time before cross talk knocks the speed back a bit.

Although there are many faults with the whole BDUK process I have to acknowledge that I am one of the lucky ones who have benefitted.

Can't knock that speed, can you?