In reply to a post by RobertoS:

But these are out on the street, in all weathers, and a guy with frozen hands.

Well I know BTOR don't do pit/chamber installs when its raining or windy, we was suppose to of had a new pit/chamber installed near one of our poles down our road last week scheduled for the 6th to 8th of May and the days came and went and no engineers no new pit/chamber nothing.

Paul

Building a carrigaway/ footway box would be done by a contractor for openreach

In reply to a post by Ribble:

Building a carrigaway/ footway box would be done by a contractor for openreach

Ah, ok.
Well whoever was paid to do it never came, roadworks said work was to start 6th to 8th of May, but nothing happened, still old small pit.
It said on roadworks the following:

Build 1 concrete chamber 915mm x 445mm x 965mm deep in Footway,Build 1 precast jointing chamber (725mm x 225mm) 600mm dep

So I am gathering that in the new square version of the pit that I already have at my pole.

I was hoping to take some pictures at different stages and what goes inside etc, like the pre-cast mold and any hardware that also goes in.

Paul

There are probably some clues as to what to expect on here:

https://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/contactus/whoy...

https://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/contactus/whoy...

In reply to a post by monkeyscrittles:

Cheers Guys,

Yeah the exchange has been live for over a year - and the roadworks listed were to provide the cabinet and all the power and ducting.

So I'm hoping this means it's going to be a failry quick turnaround but you never know!!

In my experience (which was 2 months ago) the cab went in and it was live on the checker within 3 weeks

Well the plot thickens... or more rightly disappoints.. The cab has now gone live, but it appears despite (a really nice bt chap that was working on the cab the other day) assurance that it makes no sense that I'm one of the furthest houses away from the exchange so I shouldn't be an Exchange only line... I am as I still can't get an upgrade.

Ah well. Guess I'll still keep waiting to see when they can move me over from an EO line to somewhere else!

First thing to check is with your phone number in the BT Wholesale line checker:
http://www.dslchecker.bt.com/adsl/adslchecker.welcome

If the line above the table identifies your exchange but not a cabinet, then you are on an EO line.

Second thing is to check your neighbours. Put your postcode into the BT Wholesale Address checker (not the postcode checker):
http://www.dslchecker.bt.com/adsl/ADSLChecker.Addres...

You should be offered a list of addresses in the postcode, allowing you to check the results for the neighbours - noting any differences in cabinet and/or speed estimates.

Armed with those results, you should be able to frame a query to the BDUK project.

Hi WWWombat,

Yeah I've got an excel spreadsheet with everybody postcode on and can see its basically about the last 36 or so houses on end of my road that seem to be exchange only.

Nice BT engineer I spoke to said he couldnt see any sense as to why we were setup that way either!!!

Unfortunately the BDUK project is basically dead in the water. Last time i tried to get in touch with them I go a auto response saying due to budget cuts they couldnt employ someone to actually answer responses.

So I'm pretty confident it's just a case of waiting and waiting and waiting!

I've just had mine replaced after it was damaged. Oddly enough as I type this there is a mud scrape on the side of the NGA and also a 4x4 parked between it and the wall so I bet it's been hit again.