In reply to a post by Seansmit17:

That it is, It popped up as live just after midnight.

I placed my order with TalkTalk as well

24th April for install.. 3 weeks! O_o Ah well. At least FTTC is here! xD I'm a happy bunny!

When was the Expected date from dslchecker.bt.com?

It never showed a date

Hi,

My exchange (Pentyrch) is showing as taking orders, but by Cabinet doesnt seem to be showing as fibre available as yet. There IS a new cabinet in my street (Cabinet 10) and I say Openreach engineers outside it a few weeks ago and they said theyd just resolved a problem with it and after it had been tested it would be ready.

BT DSL checker still not showing as available on that Cabinet. Can any of you guys help with what else I can check, how, with who etc? Should I check that the Cabinet has power going to it first?

Ta!

Its just a waiting game for now.

Just keep checking the checker, seems like it may go live any day now... as long as there are no more problems.

You should go to the cab and check if there is any sound coming from it. If there is then its close to being active.

I have found something I find a little odd.

A few houses, around 4 that I have found thus far are EO lines and they are right next to the TE.

Other houses next to the TE are actually connected to PCP7. And in some cases the line comes from a house, past the TE and up the road to PCP7 and then back to the TE.

So it seems the amount of people on EO lines can be counted on one hand!... Maybe two.

And it also seems the Fibre connection is coming from Mold to server the cabs as there is no WBC/21CN (ADSL2+) from Pontybodkin TE. I would of expected 21CN to become available if Fibre was coming from the local TE.

So it looks like a few poor souls are stuck with ADSL Max.

It also seems that people in Pontybodkin that are served by cab 3 are not getting FTTC at all. Unless there are plans later to bring FTTC to that cab.

In reply to a post by Seansmit17:

Its just a waiting game for now.

Just keep checking the checker, seems like it may go live any day now... as long as there are no more problems.

You should go to the cab and check if there is any sound coming from it. If there is then its close to being active.

So I listened to the Cabinet, and no power going to it that I could hear of (no humming etc) - how loud should it be?

Cant see any sign of planned roadworks looking at roadworks.org, so not sure now if it might actually be ages off??!!!

Its loud enough to hear. I could hear mine humming as I approached it. But it was night time.

One way to check if power has been connected is to look at the patches of tarmac where the path has been dug up. There is 2 patches at all the cabs here, 1 for when the cab and its ducts were installed and 1 were the power line was put in.

Both Pontybodkin and Mold connect to Connahs Quay.
Pontybodkin PCP 3 is being planned for FTTP

PCP Getting FTTP?! Well that sucks.. Not that many connected to that PCP though.

Possibly the oddest webpage I've done, but recording of the sound from a cabinet

http://www.coolwebhome.co.uk/cabinet/

You may have to crank the volume up.