Looking at this more closely highlights just how rubbish fttc is and potentially how much of a waste of money the broadband improvement project is.
There are really not many houses which will benefit from this cabinet 19, because of the rural spread of houses, literally 2 digits difference further down your road are barely estimating 18Mbps from the new cabinet.

you fibre cabinet will still be off cab 4 there is no ability to move from one cabinet to another

The broadband improvement project in Northern Ireland involves extending the current coverage by installing additional cabinets at locations to fill in the gaps in coverage.
By design this should have brought the op's line onto the new cabinet.

I would place bets on cabinet 19 being a combo pcp/dslam.

In reply to a post by gazzyk1ns:

Edit: ^ that is the sort of Email address I was thinking of in my previous post. My opinion is: Do that.

What I wrote, pre-edit:

If you're comfortable with the financial side of things, I suppose you could take both routes - order a new 80/20 service right now, AND don't give up on the existing problem. I wouldn't do it, but if you've got the money and patience, then maybe it couldn't do any harm? Also, the non-ceasing of your TT line would ensure that the "Frankenstein line" wouldn't physically be touched (i.e., used as your new line). So then once you have a new, working FTTC service you can decide exactly what to do with the horrible existing mess.

I want a photo of the 6 lines into your house, from the outside, if you go for that, though

Was thinking about that last night myself. Ill just tell BTOR Im setting up my own call centre at home!
Your thoughts above have crossed my mind, and Flipdee pmed me a way to do it that wouldn't cost a lot.
I think I might go ahead and order a brand new line from a new provider and keep the talk talk connection as it is for now.
If all goes well, this will connect correctly to cab 19 and I will see an FTTC facility available to me to allow me to then order a fit for purpose fibre install. THEN Talktalk can be cancelled.

Does anyone think this new connection wouldn't work, or is the consensus that it is likely too? I just have a fear that the new line works, but this cab 4 muddle still affects things.

Do you have a single drop wire into your house or multiple ?

In reply to a post by Fastman2:

you fibre cabinet will still be off cab 4 there is no ability to move from one cabinet to another

Can you elaborate? This seems to fly in the face of plenty of other posts. Surely the whole point of these new cabinets is moving existing customer lines to the new cabs for FTTC if the new cab is closer to the customer?

Apologies if i'm mistaken but as I see it I believe the cable from the DP is underground.

I believe what Fastman2 is saying is under normal circumstances you just can't get moved from one cabinet to another, this is normally a copper re-arrangement which would cost a substantial amount of money if you had instigated it yourself.
Edit: I'm not sure about the rest of the UK but Northern Ireland's additional cabinets basically extend FTTC coverage beyond what the existing deployment can provide, there obviously will be overlap from original deployment (usually based around the PCP - passive connection point which the smaller BT green cabinet paired with a larger powered "Fibre Twin") and in Northern Ireland instead of installing a new PCP closer the the disadvantaged properties they are using combo cabinets which fulfill both roles.

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In reply to a post by flipdee:

Looking at this more closely highlights just how rubbish fttc is and potentially how much of a waste of money the broadband improvement project is.
There are really not many houses which will benefit from this cabinet 19, because of the rural spread of houses, literally 2 digits difference further down your road are barely estimating 18Mbps from the new cabinet.

Hard to know Flipdee. I was getting a rock solid 15mbps from cab 4 for years, and I am at least 1.5 miles away from it. They have activated a right few around here recently. The other cabinet that went live is near the railway bridge at Glenavy, and it is less than a mile from cab 19 so they seem to be branching out in the area at maybe 1 mile intervals where there are houses?
A half mile circumference from cab 19 would encompass a lot of properties.