Thanks Ribble

So I took a trip around that area to try and find E2.

Cabinet 10 is at the junction of Lickhill and Newcroft, see http://postimg.org/image/vqa6kouzt/ and Yes there is a large FTTC cabinet to the left of it just out of the picture.

But very curious to know where E2 is. A little way up from Cabinet 10 at the junction of Lickhill and School Road I find Cabinet 23, see http://postimg.org/image/5w029pcs3/ and the large Cabinet is numbered 23, the small green box has no number, maybe this is E2. The FTTC cabinet for 23 is across the road and not shown in the image. But that is shown on http://postimg.org/image/sprn2w17l/.

A litle further down the road again I find this old looking thing, http://postimg.org/image/6n5bxoqn5/ now maybe that is E2, and across the road I find this small FTTC cabinet http://postimg.org/image/iyi88yh2h/ and from where this picture was taken if you look at the cabinet and could see through the hedge, you would see the old cabinet form the previous link. If I were to bet I would say this was E2. Any idea how many FTTC lines this cabinet can support?

I am not served by this Cabinet at all, I am just trying to help some people in the area understand the current scenario, how to proceed and who to badger next to get better broadband.

Is it true that Wiltshire Council will not touch any lines which are served from any Cabinet BT have upgraded despite a few people still being left on ADSL1. Even though the exchange is 21CN enabled these lines are not running ADSL2+ .

96 lines when full of cards I think.

Looks like you have found E2.
It's down to the individual isp to arrange change from Adsl to ADSL 2+, its not automatic and is nothing to do with BDUK/council

I have to be honest and say I have found the communication from Wiltshire Council about their BDUK plans to be clear and forthcoming. It is very difficult to know what speeds will be obtained once FTTC is enabled at any cabinet and so they have to be careful to manage the exceptions when they send details in their emails.

Wiltshire Council are now making plans for using BDUK2 funds, the details of how that will be spent and who will be upgraded will be known in the middle of 2015, with that project lasting into 2016 and 2017.

You challenge is to find enough people in your locality to make enough noise at Wiltshire Council to show there is demand in that location that [1] it is worth spending the money on that location in a fair an proportionate manner compared to other locations and [2] that if they did not spend the money in that location that there would be many people causing negative publicity about the 'poor investment in broadband by this council'. You might call this the 'carrot and stick' approach to diplomacy.

I have an interesting little dilemma in regards to this...

I recently moved into the Bremhill area (SN11 9) and when checking for broadband speeds I was weirdly offered FTTC by Plusnet, I ordered it and the fibre line was installed.

I received very sporadic speeds between 1-2Mbps....

To cut a long painful story short I switched back to ADSL with plusnet and am now getting around 3Mbps

Fast forward to yesterday I am reading the 'Village News' and see a small article by some of the chaps writing about broadband with a tiny little PS. at the bottom that reads something along the lines of 'FTTC now possibly available in the Bremhill area'

I instantly dropped to the floor and began to sob of course.... I have checked my line with bt wholesale & Sam Knows and apparently I am connected to Cab 10 with a possible max FTTC speed of 77Mbps.

I have checked Google maps and it looks that I am around 3miles (by the road) from Cab 10.

So now I really have no idea what to do? Should I go down the FTTC route again? or just stick with my 3Mbps ADSL?

Any wisdom greatly appreciated

When you say checked your line, do you mean your exact telephone number, and a full address check also gives the same information.

Re-engineering to improve speeds i.e. move people between cabinets is done (Cornwall has seen a reasonable amount) but generally rare elsewhere, usually only happens for exchange only lines.

So I would do the checks again via the BT Wholesale checker. In short it is possible your scenario but I am sceptical

Done with my phone number and postcode

http://postimg.org/image/5112hd39p/

Good reason to believe this is wrong.

The speed estimate for other properties in the same postcode is 9 to 12 Mbps and I think even that might be optimistic, and these seem to match the speeds from cabinet E2 too and based on where they appear to be the estimates are on the optimistic side, and your previous experience suggests that to be the case.

Cabinet 10 is not covered by BDUK or Wiltshire Council, it was upgraded by BT as they decided it was worthwhile.

Cabinet E2, a 100m or so up the road from Cabinet 10, is covered by BDUK and Wiltshire Council, I believe this is now live and taking orders.

At the moment your prospects for improved broadband is in the hands of BT. And whatever plans they have.

Bremhill Parish council is only now waking up to the fact that there are going to be quite a few locations in the area where FTTC does not work well, by that I mean getting better than 10/2 speeds. A coordinated request needs to be sent to BTO and Wiltshire Council to show there is demand in this area

you need to check witrh you LA to see if it has been included under the Market test for SEP - Secondary expansion project and see if they will expect to do anything

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