Its so damned frustrating to see it going in all around me and yet my Cab seems to be left behind, no base or ducting laid, There are fibre cabs in Northgate Street, Main Street, West Street, Holyland road and Upper Lamphey Road, and Merchants Park - those are just the ones I know of in Pembroke, I'm told there are others but I have not seen them for myself.

I agree, The lack of information is ridiculous, I can see no reason why there would be problems putting a Fibre twin in for our Cabinet. Power seems to be available any time a builder wants to encroach on Mill Pond - ironically with new builds that will be fed from PCP29, there are no space issues around the cab,

But Like you there seems no way to obtain any real facts about what is happening.

I need to find PCP4 as well, thats around here somewhere.

Edited by deleted (Wed 25-Jun-14 22:32:39)

Probably found previously unmarked underground services where they were going to place the cab.

I finally got a proper answer from Superfarce Cymru yesterday. My original email received a reply that didn't in any way address the questions I had posed - I suspect it was a template general inquiry response and it wasn't until I became a little more abrupt with them that they actually asked BT about the issues delaying PCP29

It seems that due to "problems with the ground" at the original site chosen for the fibre cabinet a new survey had to be done and is now "being evaluated". Lets hope this survey was a little more thorough than the last one the unknown quantity is how leisurely this "evaluation" is going to be. The email doesn't seem confident of a rapid solution so I guess I will be sitting here with decreasing speeds (My ISP just dropped Daisy and reverted me to Enta - whom I left 2 years ago because of peak time slow downs) with the frustration of knowing that while this part of town remains unserved by FTTC, all the cabinets in Pembroke are fed from the ducting that runs within 30 feet of PCP29,

Rather than going forwards - I lost more than 1Mbps speed this month, its almost as slow as ADSLMax was in the evening. Its annoying to be paying so much for a service that is deteriorating while all around me will soon have access to much better service for a modest extra amount.

Ran my sisters number through the wholesale checker tonight, came back with 79.9 Mbps result so I guess PCP30 is live and accepting orders.

Maybe one day Openjoke and superfarce can getv thier heads together and finish "reviewing the next steps" after having to rethink the siting of the fibre twin for PCP29, but somehow I think Im now at the back of a long queue, still at the mercy of the manky Copper that has been the source of much frustration over 15 years at this address,

Unfortunately this does happen with some cabinets - it's probably an underground service that hadn't been identified.

More unfortunately for you that cab is in a conservation area:
http://www.pembrokeshire.gov.uk/objview.asp?object_i...

So if a planning application was required it has to be re-done for a new location.

This puts your cab at the risk of 'missing the wave' for this installation phase - by the time the resurveying and new applications are done then the installers may well have moved on to another area.

They should come back to install it eventually but the priority is getting a presence into new exchange areas against the programme.

It is literally on the border, so given that they can stand the twin "closeby" they could in theory put it just outside the Area denoted by the map.

Its a ridiculous area, the boundary runs through the gardens of some 1940s council flats and takes in the corner of a street and the front gardens of the flats opposite, none of which has any impact on the "historic town"PCP stands on the footpath that is at the very edge of the map. I'm not sure a planning application was required as none has been seen, no notices posted in the area (there is a post box adjacent to PCP29 which we use a couple of times a week so we would have seen any notifications that would have to be displayed in the area.

Im going to keep on at them and get a few neighbours to join in. Im sick of openjokes "it mostly works be thankful for that" attitude to my unstable service. We had to wait while the Minister responsible had everything done in her area despite NOT being a priority area, as well as other M4 corridor areas that Openjoke decided not to waste any more of their money on.

Time for an email to my Assembly member I think, before the money runs out/is curtailed

Edited by deleted (Tue 15-Jul-14 07:38:40)

Having been told a couple of weeks ago by Superfarce Cymru that a new survey for our PCP had been done and was "being considered" I decided to contact my Assembly Member to see if she could glean any firm information about a likely time frame.

She has been told that a new survey "IS required" , that the teams have left the area and that we will be looked at again at some point in the future. So it seems that at best we could see the reply from Superfarce Cymru as misleading, which begs the question - was it deliberate?

Meanwhile I have just had the spin-letter emailed from Superfarce Cymru telling me that "Pembroke is now live".... well PCP 29 isn't, and according to someone at BT there is no idea when it ever will be. Instead of announcing more dates it would be nice if they finished an area first. So while I am surrounded by fibre cabs. and knowing that the trunking runs within 30 feet of PCP29 I am angry that we remain unserviced. If only we cable. Id dump BTs clapped out copper crud. It seems we have been left to wait until other later areas get their roll out before we get belatedly included in this one

All of this on top of the Vivaciti fiasco that saw them dump me back on (WBC) Enta (javing ditched them on IPSC left due to evening slow downs) the move from Daisy LLU seems to have lost me around a meg of throughput despite a similar sync and I am almost back at ADSLmax speeds. So much for progress.

UK Broadband really is a farce.

Edited by deleted (Wed 23-Jul-14 21:57:47)

I have also had an email from Superfarce Cymru telling me that

"The first cabinets are now live in Pembroke but we are working on many more in the area. It was only announced a few days ago so this may explain between the lag in our announcement and the Openreach website.
The cabinet you are served by has not yet been enabled and we are currently looking for a location to site it. It is difficult to give a specific date because of the engineering complexities of deploying fibre cabinets. It involves not only provision of fibre, but availability of power connections, planning consent for the cabinet itself in some cases, road closures, traffic management permissions and space within our duct network to make the necessary connections. In a small number of cases we encounter problems which can significantly delay the cabinet, and take time to resolve. In the vast majority of cases these delays are caused by either power provision and local planning permission. We work closely with the power companies and local authorities to minimise such delays. We would not want to give you a date only for it to change causing disappointment and frustration."

Now I believe I am connected to Cabinet 32 - does anyone know the exact location of that cabinet or can you point in the direction where I can find out. I think it is the one on the corner of Holyland Rd/Main St.

I think it is the one on the corner of Holyland Rd/Main St.

Google shows that the cab outside Owen & Owen on Main St. has a big 7 painted on it so 32 has to be elsewhere.

I never thought of looking at street view!
I always assumed that I was connected to the one on Main St.

Looks like then the old 32 cabinet is the one almost opposite my house on the corner of Holyland Rd/Kingsbridge Dr, that is if the address/cabinet web site checker is correct.

Edited by deleted (Fri 25-Jul-14 11:52:04)