In reply to a post by Navarre:

Hi

I live in North Leigh and I am with Aol/talktalk.

Aol dont do fibre so I contacted their sister company talktalk who told me I could only have fibre optic if I changed my phone number (seems strange)

So I phoned Bt who said I could have fibre and did not have to change my phone number.

The only thing I can think is if I get my fibre from the Witney exchange I need a new phone number as my phone line goes to the Freeland exchange.

If I use the Freeland exchange I can only get Fibe Optic from Bt as the GEA cable has not been fitted for
talktalk as yet.

Can anyone shed any light on this???
Thanks
Steve.

Steve

I see we are neighbours. Put your Address into this checker.....

http://www.dslchecker.bt.com/

I am reliably informed above that it will tell you which cabinet you will be connected to and which exchange it is connected to.

Edited by deleted (Mon 12-May-14 23:38:16)

The checker will tell you your cabinet number and the exchange that cabinet is connected to for the voice service. The online checker does not tell you which exchange the fibre goes to, as there is no need for people to worry about this.

The fibre becomes available to all providers at the same time, but some order and get the GEA cable link ordered sooner than others. This GEA cable link is ONLY needed at the handover node which is the exchange the fibre goes to.

Nice one!

Cabinet 6 on the Freeland Exchange

Thanks......

In reply to a post by Navarre:

Thanks for the quick reply.

Freeland have only just gone live and I have been desperate to change to fiibre broadband.
But bt are to expensive I just assumed once the exchange was live I could go with any isp.
I am still not sure where the fibre is coming from we have two cabinets in North Leigh but I have seen the openreach van laying cables from Witney then to Freeland and then on to Long Hanbourgh.

Cheers
Steve.

Steve.

See my previous post about checking your address against the line checker. When you check your address it will tell you which exchange and which cabinet you will be connected to. It will also tell you it is available. As far as I can ascertain, Freeland has not yet gone live with FTTC!. Unless BT have done so and not TalkTalk. I have asked in Freeland and no one who is with BT has had any letter about this. This all gets confusing. It was only two weeks ago that they connected the power to the cabinets and I am sure I read somewhere on one web link that 15th June was the going live date. Then later on I found another site that stated 30th June.

All confusing to say the least. I have been with TalkTalk for many years and if BT infinity is a lot dearer, I will bite the bullet and stay with TalkTalk. I will trawl through the TalkTalk forum and see if I can find anything out.

I think between us we may have overloaded you will similar information. Re:-

I am reliably informed above that it will tell you which cabinet you will be connected to and which exchange it is connected to

what MrSaffron says is correct. The checker tells you your phone exchange and cabinet number, (FTTC cabinets are not numbered but are always connected to a phone cabinet).

The FTTC estimates it gives you are for the speed you will receive from the FTTC cabinet connected to your phone cabinet. The fibre cabinet is supplied quite independently of the phone cabinet, with a linking cable installed between them.

More information on this page, which may need a few updates but explains the basic setup.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

The checker will tell you your cabinet number and the exchange that cabinet is connected to for the voice service. The online checker does not tell you which exchange the fibre goes to, as there is no need for people to worry about this.

The fibre becomes available to all providers at the same time, but some order and get the GEA cable link ordered sooner than others. This GEA cable link is ONLY needed at the handover node which is the exchange the fibre goes to.

OK Thanks. The cabinet numbers we are all quoting in Long Hanborough, Freeland and North Leigh in this thread are the new cabinets which have just been installed. Cabinet 3 in Freeland and Cabinet 6 in North Leigh are all brand new and have been installed in the last 6 to 8 weeks.

Did they replace old, smaller ones? Are they of a kind pictured on this page?

If so, are there any Huawei or ECI cabinets, as shown on that page, within 50 metres or so of them?

Edited by RobertoS (Mon 12-May-14 23:35:16)

In reply to a post by Navarre:

Nice one!

Cabinet 6 on the Freeland Exchange

Thanks......

I have sent you a Private Message.

Hi GunRunner

I have also found this very confusing I spoke to Bt who said I could have fast fiibre now
I also spoke to talktalk who said they had to fit there equipment to the exchange before I could have fibre (I think this is the Gea cable) I read that this costs approx £2000.00 and they wait a few weeks after the exchange has gone live before they connect it just incase the live date gets delayed

Steve.

It could be that the fibre arriving at Witney from Freeland and these others terminates on different Openreach kit in Witney exchange from the stuff the Witney-local fibre does.

If so, to my mind that would explain a new GEA link needed by TT even though they have Witney users already on fibre.

BT Wholesale are nearly always first to get their GEA links installed. In effect, that's what makes an exchange be listed as enabled.