In reply to a post by Smithy99:

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

What do you mean "moving the lines across"?

Cabinet 2 briefly showed up as ready for ordering last night, now showing as no longer available. I've seen quite a few cabinets do this then a week or so later they are ready to go.

Not working at Openreach, just like me, Smithy probably means that the interruption in our Internet access may somehow be connected with final work to bring us FTTC.

I think you probably know that

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In reply to a post by Smithy99:

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

What do you mean "moving the lines across"?

The original cabinet 8 is on the opposite side of Thingwall road, the new fibre cabinet is a little way down Glenwood Drive, at some point I expect they will need to move the cables from the old cabinet across to the new one, I assume this will mean a bit of downtime when they do it.

Not so much 'moving' but the cabinets will need to be connected.

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In reply to a post by Smithy99:

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

What do you mean "moving the lines across"?

The original cabinet 8 is on the opposite side of Thingwall road, the new fibre cabinet is a little way down Glenwood Drive, at some point I expect they will need to move the cables from the old cabinet across to the new one, I assume this will mean a bit of downtime when they do it.

No that's not how it works. There are (initially) 150 lines that run between the two cabinets. When someone orders fibre broadband their individual line is diverted into one of those link cables (they are called tie pairs). Their line then goes trough the new fibre cabinet.

Everyone else's lines aren't touched. You won't notice any downtime.

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What do you mean "moving the lines across"?

The original cabinet 8 is on the opposite side of Thingwall road, the new fibre cabinet is a little way down Glenwood Drive, at some point I expect they will need to move the cables from the old cabinet across to the new one, I assume this will mean a bit of downtime when they do it.

No that's not how it works. There are (initially) 150 lines that run between the two cabinets. When someone orders fibre broadband their individual line is diverted into one of those link cables (they are called tie pairs). Their line then goes trough the new fibre cabinet.

Everyone else's lines aren't touched. You won't notice any downtime.

That's good to know, I thought maybe with the cabinets being so far apart they might do one big lift and shift. The trick is to be one of the first 150 people to sign up then!!!

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In reply to a post by Smithy99:

... nested quotes trimmed ...

The original cabinet 8 is on the opposite side of Thingwall road, the new fibre cabinet is a little way down Glenwood Drive, at some point I expect they will need to move the cables from the old cabinet across to the new one, I assume this will mean a bit of downtime when they do it.

No that's not how it works. There are (initially) 150 lines that run between the two cabinets. When someone orders fibre broadband their individual line is diverted into one of those link cables (they are called tie pairs). Their line then goes trough the new fibre cabinet.

Everyone else's lines aren't touched. You won't notice any downtime.

That's good to know, I thought maybe with the cabinets being so far apart they might do one big lift and shift. The trick is to be one of the first 150 people to sign up then!!!

150 lines is the new standard amount to be put in at first. But of course once those are at 75% capacity they put in another 100. Once the fibre cabinet fills up, they add a second cabinet.

It depends on the capacity of the fibre cabinet though. I know the cabinet will be manufactured by Huawei but I haven't seen it, is it a big one or a small one in comparison to the others in the area?

Its a large FTTC cabinet & similar to others in the area

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Its a large FTTC cabinet & similar to others in the area

Ok so it can take up to 288 lines. Well, 287 lines as one is used for the telemetry link