the cabs are cheap to stand and install, its the cabling both copper and fibre

I take it they are less than 45k per cab? Yeah, i''d say the civil works is always the killer.
Any confirmation on capacity of the onesie cabs?

Any confirmation on capacity of the onesie cabs?

I think it is 96.

Physical metal box with its electronics current accepted ball park estimates are £5 to £10k each.

The cost is really in the labour of installing, hooking up power, fixing blocked duct so fibre tubing can be installed. Connecting the cabinet to the existing copper cabinet, Blowing the fibre itself and the time to fuse the runs of fibre together.

So the figures of £30k, 45k and a max of 100k tend to refer to the full suite of costs, e.g. a cabinet that needs the fibre running 12km is going cost more than one that only needs a few 100 metres.

Quite alot of those costs won't come down with Fibre to the kerb/dp

It looks like this cabinet could be capable of serving around 180 properties (subject to capacity of course)

Talk talk still faffing about.

5 weeks now from this happened. 4 weeks from it was reported. I got a call from TT "fault management" dept at 12pm. Asked if the problem was sorted yet!!!!! They must be sitting with their fingers crossed or waiting for a car to reverse in to the cabinet to maybe kickstart the connection, because they sure as hell can't tell me what action is in hand that makes them thin the issue might be resolved.
Laughable, if it wasn't so serious. This is having a huge impact on me. Working from home I rely on a decent broadband link. I cannot even keep my company laptop locked in to the company servers as I have to run a secure link over the broadband and it keeps disconnecting, only from this issue started, and likely because the connection is so feeble.

I'm sorry to hear that your still suffering from the Talk Talk Brick Wall department, as Andrew pointed out, perhaps wouldn't be much different with any of the other "big isp's".

Have you had any chinks of light from the other avenues?

Cheers,
flipdee

Not yet Flipdee.

I have a course of escalation and action that I have set myself. From an affordability issue, I want to exhaust all avenues with TT first.
Then I will look at some of the other options we discussed.

Andrew from on here also indicated he might be able to pursue with Openreach for me, so may be some chink of light from that avenue.

Yeah,that's totally understandable.
Sounds good. Good luck with TT.
Fingers crossed someone can give things a magic nudge in the right direction.
I suspect at least one of your neighbours is in the same boat (if they had fibre before the change that is).

Edited by deleted (Mon 26-Jan-15 13:54:39)