Not really saying you're whining. Just that you're currently enjoying a 15 megabit service, and possibly have been for quite a few years when many areas of Irby, including mine, only get 5 or 6 on a good day.

If I had 15mbit, I doubt I'd even be checking this thread

Edited by Irby (Thu 30-Apr-15 06:43:46)

In reply to a post by Irby:

Not really saying you're whining. Just that you're currently enjoying a 15 megabit service, and possibly have been for quite a few years when many areas of Irby, including mine, only get 5 or 6 on a good day.

If I had 15mbit, I doubt I'd even be checking this thread

Yes you would, I remember when we managed to get 1mb which seemed super fast, now 5mb isn't fast enough, how long before we are all pushing for the next raft of upgrades to 1Gb and faster?

Hi, It looks like BT have just installed Cabinet 8 at the top of Glenwood Drive. I think it may be part of a BDUK rollout. If it is installed as quick as P19, then it should be accepting orders within a few weeks.

I'm still waiting for cabinet 3 to go live as my 3MB broadband is driving me up the wall at the moment.

Bt Openreach have indicated to me to keep checking the website from the end of April.

In reply to a post by ping78:

If it is installed as quick as P19, then it should be accepting orders within a few weeks.

Or if it's as quick as P3 and P2, it will still be stood there doing nothing in a year...

Seriously though, thanks for the info, pretty confident it should be going live soon (I don't have inside info, just a hunch).

Well had a letter from Esther McVey today with update from BT as follows:

The Cabinet 9 in Whaley Lane in physically in place and has power connected. The outstanding 152m of duct work in Whaley Lane has now been completed so we are arranging for our engineers to install cables in new duct work. We expect to have the fibre connected late May 2015 which should make cabinet "ready for service" in late spring/early summer.
Funny thing is ducting was started & completed around 25/2/15 , followed by install of black cable/ yellow fibre soon after, power has been in cabinet months before ( dates were all posted in lost forum PT1).
I really cannot understand why there is such contradiction in what BT are saying, and what is happening on the ground ,maybe they are being given incorrect details by others ? Openreach ? Who knows - just lets hope 'late spring/early sumner' is not 2016 !!
BTW - top half of Whaley Lane and now Barker Road & Brian Ave are AO , presumably from cabinet P18 o/s exchange .

Like many of us, I stopped taking any notice of promised dates, I've heard it all before. Roughly 16 times since 2011.

It will come when it comes, but I really wouldn't be surprised to find us still discussing it on this forum in a year's time.

Irby - Thanks I share your frustration - perhaps when we are all connected - we can meet up for a drink to celebrate at the Anchor - sending the 'tab' to BT/Openreach lol

Back in 2002 me and 'Saidin' would often do just that after a marathon leafleting few hours

Went for a quick visit to cabinet 8, they have fitted across the road from the old one so I have been looking in the wrong place for it! Looks like they might have a bit of work to do in connecting all the lines from the old cabinet though which is a fair distance away and across the other side of Thingwall road.

Fingers crossed they won't keep us waiting for too long now.

Dave, which cabinet are you connected to? I noticed a new one down your way last week.

In reply to a post by Smithy99:

Went for a quick visit to cabinet 8, they have fitted across the road from the old one so I have been looking in the wrong place for it! Looks like they might have a bit of work to do in connecting all the lines from the old cabinet though which is a fair distance away and across the other side of Thingwall road.

Fingers crossed they won't keep us waiting for too long now.

Dave, which cabinet are you connected to? I noticed a new one down your way last week.

Well they will have picked the location for the DSLAM based on how close it is to BT ducting and Scottish Power cables. So it shouldn't be a big job to get cables through from cabinet 8. They only put 150 tie pairs through (initially) from the existing cabinet to the new one anyway, so it's just two 100 pair cables and two 50 pair cables they have to pull through from one cabinet to the other.