50m is preferred, but they will locate at up to 100m if needed.

That cab by the centre has no number on it and all of the houses past it, next to it or before it are listed as using cab 7 up on the corner opposite the memorial.

Not sure what that cab is used for if no one is connected via it??

So you not on ADSL2 With talktalk??

As soon as I noticed they was avalible Augast 2012 I jumped ship from BT as fast as i could!

Edited by Seansmit17 (Tue 21-Jan-14 14:56:58)

i checked the surgery that is connected to cabinet 1, could be that cab is no1 its not far away,

no been with zen for years needed it for business use and the reliability, used to be on plusnet and pipex prior but too unreliable and a lot of dropouts,

Edited by deleted (Tue 21-Jan-14 15:00:07)

Oh.

Well I imagine then that all customers after that cab will be connected to the new FTTC cab there then? Rather than 7. Around a 500m gap between cab 1 and 7.

But why have it called cab 1? 7 up my end, 4 is opposite the pub near the garage down the road, 6 near dingle road. BT's cab numbering scheme confuses me xD

does seem to be no logical sense in the numbering, pcp5 is in treuddyn heh

Well, Work has started on 1 (cab 1) cab in the middle of the village.

So not only is the cab numbering odd, the order of cab upgrade is also odd!

Yes. Starting at number 1 is very odd.

The Cabs were numbered as they were put in The exchange would have been built in the 1930s to 1950s and as as more cabs were required they put more cabs in numbering them in order!.

Thus there appears to be no order to them when looked at geographically!

The later ones may have only appeared in the 1970s and 1980 when most people started to get a phone! so they don't appear to be connected to the age of the houses either until after around 1985.

1 is after all an odd (not even) number!

Some background-

In 1978, Post Office Telephones reckoned that about 65% of Domestic Premises in England and Wales had telephones.

The figure for Scotland was 55%.

But up here in Fife, this estate had about 95% - rather exceptional - yet PO Telephones wanted to erect a public coin-box phone, at a time when it was isolated and no obvious "passing trade".

Out of 77 houses, 75 definitely had phones, one definitely did not, with one unknown.