Just found a letter from Esther, too. Long story short, complications with duct silting for cabinet 2 and 3 are going to mean more delays.

Same old story!

Just discovered this thread, I am moving house soon from cabinet 13 which is enabled to cabinet 4 which isnt enabled... cant believe ill be back to slower internet speeds! Just wondered if there is any info on cabinet 4 as all cabinets around it seem to be enabled?

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Just discovered this thread, I am moving house soon from cabinet 13 which is enabled to cabinet 4 which isnt enabled... cant believe ill be back to slower internet speeds! Just wondered if there is any info on cabinet 4 as all cabinets around it seem to be enabled?

AGGGH !!!! Don't move - you could be years in the doldrums

I wish i had the choice... all this stress of moving and my biggest headache is not having fibre!

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I wish i had the choice... all this stress of moving and my biggest headache is not having fibre!

Well hope move goes OK - you won't have seen PT1 forum thread of this saga - just hope PT11 doesn't drag on for another six + years .
I'm positive having a tooth pulled without local would be less excruciating as getting full fibre access in our area.

IT can't be far off. Just don't think of moving to Mill Hill Road, not only do we not have FTTC yet, our ADSL speeds are amongst the lowest in the area!

At least ADSL speed at cabinet 13 will be decent.

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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.

It is definitely in a better position, I know that the ducting by the old one constantly flooded being at the dip of the hill, remember seeing BT pumping water out of it many times and sometimes for hours at a time.

Did anyone's internet connection drop overnight? Mine was down for a few hours at about 03:00 or so (yeah, middle of the night, so most wouldn't notice it).

Yep checked about 4am it was down - with Sky - no news else where on dormant FTTC's coming on stream either - as most of you will be aware we lost our MP who was doing her best to get answers from Open reach & BT over delays. I don't really have the appetite to start the whole saga off again with the new one, so guess we will be a the mercy of the monopolies.

Yes, mine dropped last night, using cabinet 8, lets hope they are moving the lines across.