Thank you Andrew, puts my mind at rest.

So much for the new BT Wholesale Where and When site which is supposed to give out better information!

The ADSL checker gives no information for me using my number apart from ADSL2+ is enabled but waiting for more capacity (yet again) with no hint of when fibre will be available. I knew cabinet two had it's fibre twin but did not know it is enabled.

There are certainly quite a lot of roadworks coming up putting in ducting in the area with some running right up to 23 Dec so I hope fibre will be available sometime in the first quarter of next year. Hopefully early in the new year!

Openreach is sometimes tied in the level of information they can give out due to contracts with the councils and the councils claim vice versa.

The BT Wholesale checker is NOT the where and when site, its a subtle difference but an important one.

Anyway an update, two Openreach guys turned up today and connected a lovely black cable with a yellow stripe up from the chamber at the bottom of my pole and pinned a coil of it to the pole ready for the eventual connection to what will apparently be a 12 fttp manifold.

They were really chatty and told me that there are a lot of blockages to be cleared over the whole area but also just down the road from me a 50 metre gap with no ducting has been left along the road because there was some sort of problem (they suggested other services in the way) which had been referred to the "Civils" to sort out. They said it would be sorted - eventually!

They were of the opinion that a lot of work had been done on this FTTP project already so it was highly unlikely the project would be dropped at this stage and were of the opinion that sometime in the first quarter of 2015 would be a reasonable time-scale to look at and I could allow myself to become a little excited when the manifolds appear on the poles.

Edited by Jax2 (Tue 16-Sep-14 10:50:05)

Thank you, most informative, and a reply to a different post at a guess ?

Lol, yes a different post! Just replied to the one at the bottom in flat mode.

The post structures baffle me

If you select the "next two weeks" option on the roadworks site, you can see the works going from Hadleigh right to Bildeston - they've already started in Hadleigh out to the A1071, which is presumably what your wife saw?

Anyway, the description of the works when they get to Bildeston includes putting a fibre cabinet in too, specifically it says to be connected to PCP7.

So if you are getting FTTP is it going to cost you more ?, our exchange is FTTC but I would like FTTP even if I help to put in the fibre !.

At the moment if you are in a FTTC area there are only to routes to full fibre. Either FTTPoD (not available in most areas, quite expensive and few ISPs offer it) or full leased line (available pretty much everywhere, very expensive comparatively).

And where FTTP is available you can't get FTTC. But, a few ISPs offer the FTTP services and are generally on a par cost wise with FTTC but higher speed packages are available up to 330Mb/s.

There's one near us offering 1Gb up and down. Prices were actually quite reasonable, but you do have a relatively high installation cost (c£100 upwards).

Not available where I am unfortunately. They only go where BT doesn't!

That is probably Hyperoptic or B4RN (or possibly a handful of others). Good options potentially but only for a very small percentage of the population. The disadvantage is they don't wholesale so you are completely tied to the ISP.