Good news! Our new cabinet went live about 10 days ago and we ordered FTTC very soon after.

It was just connected today by a competent Kelly Communications engineer who also rearranged our master/extension sockets and fixed a crackly line to boot.

Speed is 80/20.

I'd like to take my last post back please.

Line has become almost unusable now. Very noisy, keeps dropping out. Also noticed the new master socket screws are not long enough to hold it to the wall plate so it's actually being supported by just the test socket.

Bah!

Hi. Been involved a bit in pushing for FTTC everywhere locally, incl the new box 29. interested in experiences from you and others and good it finally went live in early Oct. Does anyone know what EO lines boxes 15 & 28 serve in terms of general area. They are new pairs of boxes at exchange, so assume the lines must serve a couple of areas in Caterham Valley?. Other activity thanks to Superfast Surrey is a box being installed outside Waitrose ( Box 19), to link to the old cab outside NatWest. Told that is due for service this quarter and covers Croydon Rd....

What do we have to do to get the Caterham Exchange able to support FTTP (330Mbits) is the next critical question....

Update: 12 days after the fault BT Openreach have fixed it and speeds are on the mend - getting better each day.

Basically the contractor who installed the Superfast Broadband disturbed an old fault and we were running on only one wire. Phone didn't work at all 99% of the time but broadband limped along.

I say limped along, that one thin copper wire gave approx 15mbps symmetrical speeds which I find amazing.