In reply to a post by wolvesmad:

My cab enable date is now Nov 30th

Really looking forward to moving over to FTTC.

That's not fair! My exchange was first enabled FTTC and was promised that I will get it first before hollinswood and still no cabinet installing yet! Grrrr! BT are useless and liar. But congratulations wolvesmad getting it first. I am going to complaint to BBC Watchdog about BT.

Edited by adslmax (Mon 04-Nov-13 19:23:18)

In reply to a post by wolvesmad:

My cab enable date is now Nov 30th

Really looking forward to moving over to FTTC.

You can placed an order now for installation date Dec 1st. As if you order after Nov 30th - you might not getting FTTC until after xmas because BT are very busy nearby xmas period,

In reply to a post by adslmax:

You can placed an order now for installation date Dec 1st. As if you order after Nov 30th - you might not getting FTTC until after xmas because BT are very busy nearby xmas period,

Nope. Openreach won't accept the order until the cabinet is live.

Yep BT won't let me place an order.

So u won't get it by the time by xmas then. Probably after xmas now.

Wow you know the lead time on FTTC installs in his area and that they're considerably longer than normal?

That's pretty cool.

He did say Probably, which could well be a fair estimate. Around my neck of the woods, they seem to be taking six weeks to activate a cabinet after all other work is completed. At least that's the indication I got from NGA, so the November date given for this cabinet may well actually end up being pushed back to December and activated half way through December.

But that's a probably. Wouldn't be a surprising probably.

I'll be checking my BT Broadband control panel every day from the 25th onwards to see if it will let me order.

They've only done 4 cabs on this exchange, all of which have now been installed. Hopefully they flick the switches early.

2 to 6 weeks, they keep it conservative.

The guy received an estimate for RFS of the end of this month a few days ago. Given how close that date is to now you'd assume it comes with a fair degree of accuracy.

Given said poster claimed you could order before the cabinet was marked as RFS, and previously that wolvesmad would be waiting until spring of 2014 for the cabinet to be RFS, it's pretty generous giving him credit for fair estimates.

In reply to a post by wolvesmad:

I'll be checking my BT Broadband control panel every day from the 25th onwards to see if it will let me order.

They've only done 4 cabs on this exchange, all of which have now been installed. Hopefully they flick the switches early.

The cabinet could be live by Nov 30th and it might stay live until end of May 2014 when your bt checker might change to accepting order. I know BT are there to fool you and frustrated you.

I don't think your cabinet isn't live until May 2014.