At last! hopefully things will start moving, still not sure if that's the common factor limiting progress in the rest of the area or not, though.

In reply to a post by Irby:

At last! hopefully things will start moving, still not sure if that's the common factor limiting progress in the rest of the area or not, though.

Well neither of us have access to inside workings of BT/Openreach , but without the new ducting being in place access to Irby Exchange will not occur for the FTTC in Whaley Lane thats for sure - but whatever lets hope this issue will be resolved soon for all still waiting in Irby

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In reply to a post by Irby:

At last! hopefully things will start moving, still not sure if that's the common factor limiting progress in the rest of the area or not, though.

Well neither of us have access to inside workings of BT/Openreach , but without the new ducting being in place access to Irby Exchange will not occur for the FTTC in Whaley Lane thats for sure - but whatever lets hope this issue will be resolved soon for all still waiting in Irby

What do you mean access to Irby exchange will not occur? How's that relevant? Sorry, I don't understand your post at all.

In reply to a post by Irby:

At last! hopefully things will start moving, still not sure if that's the common factor limiting progress in the rest of the area or not, though.

It is. A lot of these type of problems are to do with the design of the ducting. For example, you may see two ducts that are near to each other, but that doesn't mean they are connected. The large cables to the cabinets would be deeper in the ground and not generally in the same ducts as the smaller cables going off to all of the distribution points. Longer distance fibre is often in manholes under the road rather than under the pavement. So as you can imagine if a crucial duct is blocked there may be no alternative route to that group of fibre cabinets. The duct has to be unblocked before those cabinets can go live.

Edited by deleted (Thu 26-Feb-15 17:54:47)

Icaras,
I have no idea why you take such a 'high almighty ' response to my posting. I have tried my best to keep the forum up to date as to what is happening . I clearly do not have the technical prowess that you exhibit in your postings on this forum, but having contacted my MP some months ago I have had regular updates on information that she has received from Openreach & BT over mine & others concern on this forum over the 'false dawn' promises over many years on the installation on fibre optic broadband in our area.
Just to clarify a letter dated 6th January I received from her had a copy of an update from a Director from BT in which he makes the following statement " The cabinet in Whaley Lane is physically in place and has had power connected. As per my previous updates in order to connect the fibre to the cabinet we need to install 152 metres of duct which requires excavation works in Whaley Lane. These are planned for February 2015 which should the cabinet "ready for service" in Spring 2015
They have started digging half way down Whaley Lane between the Exchange & are heading towards the cabinet at the end junction with Thingwall Road, and having spoken with the contractors they have said its so that the cabinet can be hooked up to the Exchange.
So with respect your comments they have been shot out of the water to a large degree. I am not prepared to enter into a tick for tack posting with you over this , I have tried to do my best by involving my MP to raise concerns over getting Fibre Optic broadband to Irby and I am pleased with her efforts , as the saying goes 'Rome wasn't built in a Day' but its hopefully getting completed soon

Edited by deleted (Thu 26-Feb-15 21:39:26)

But I've told you again and again those cabinets are connected directly to the Arrowebrook exchange. I'm not just making it up I DO know that for a fact! The contractors were kind of right, it is so they can be connected to the exchange, just not that one. You can think what you want and feel free to believe contractors that don't work for the company, but those cabinets ARE onnected to Arrowebrook. MrSaffron can confirm that the headend for Irby is Arrowebrook, he has a list of the headends. I'm not meaning to be rude to you and I hope I haven't been but it is incredibly frustrating to keep coming on here and see you posting that when I've tried to explain to you that you're wrong.

Please don't take offence to my postings to you the last thing I'd want is that, obviously I'm not in a position to explain how I'm so confident in my postings on this specific subject, you're just going to have to trust me Not that it bleedin matters too much anyway, who really cares where they are connected to, I just like information to be accurate that's all!

Edited by deleted (Thu 26-Feb-15 21:51:45)

Just to be crystal clear, you're saying that the Whaley Lane blockage, once cleared should see other cabinets in the area come on line (unless there's unforeseen other blockages nearer Irby for instance)?

I don't have access to any concrete information so that's just my opinion. But I do believe when the blockage is cleared it will enable them to reach the other cabinets with fibre yes.

Just wanted to add this as well-Irby, I had a look at your cabinet map and it is actually very revealing. You can figure out the duct routes from your map. They won't have a duct on Thingwall Road that runs from the little roundabout on the junction of Barnston Rd up to Whaley lane. Why would they? Think about where the Irby exchange is on Whaley Lane, there's no possible reason for them to have a duct route up that part of Thingwall Rd.

So the fibre cables from Arrowebrook MUST come from Pensby Road, up Whaley Lane and then left onto Thingwall Road. It has to take that route of you think about it. And your map shows that all of the cabinets past that point are still not live. But most of the cabinets BEFORE that point are live (most of the ones near Pensby Rd or Barnston Rd). So you can see that by unblocking that duct on Whaley Lane they'll be able to bring that fibre cable all the way from one end of Whaley Lane to the other and then turn left at Thingwall Road and splice onto all of the other fibre cabinets nearer Irby Village itself. Does that make sense?

You don't need access to any maps of the network to figure it out you can tell from your Google cabinet map!

Edited by deleted (Fri 27-Feb-15 11:27:16)

Yes that does make sense, visualising it helps lots, as you say seeing it on a map.

P1 and P4 are not enabled yet, I guess there could be any number of reasons why not.

Maybe, just maybe, we'll soon be enabled

Edited by Irby (Fri 27-Feb-15 11:50:57)

Update- Fibre Optic Cable being put thru new ducting in Whaley Lane

Yesterday morning saw groundworks at P17, so it looks like they're finally getting a fibre cabinet there.