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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

Out of interest how many lines does a standard telephone cabinet hold ? Does it take 287 ?

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In reply to a post by Icaras:

In reply to a post by XboxAsap:

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

Out of interest how many lines does a standard telephone cabinet hold ? Does it take 287 ?

There's not really a maximum because they just keep physically cramming more in. On paper it's about 1000 lines though. None in Irby will be that size, Heswall there is though.

The telemetry link is a pstn line, so it doesn't use a vdsl port. The ties are typically in 100 pair cables

In reply to a post by Icaras:

There's not really a maximum because they just keep physically cramming more in. On paper it's about 1000 lines though. None in Irby will be that size, Heswall there is though.

Agreed, one of our cabinets on our exchange contains 913 lines.

Paul

In reply to a post by Ribble:

The telemetry link is a pstn line, so it doesn't use a vdsl port. The ties are typically in 100 pair cables

Yeah that's true actually. Though here they are using one of the tie pairs as a telemetry line now. So it does have the effect of meaning the initial 150 tie pairs becomes 149.

Anyone know what is going on with cab 8? Open reach are now reporting it as "under review"?

I'd ignore that, the checker seems to be quite erratic shortly before a cabinet goes live. Have a listen to the cabinet and see if it is powered on or not.

Update on Cabinet 15 if anyone but me is interested.
There was a gentleman with a laptop sitting on top of the cabinet and an Openreach van. He was kneeling down and doing something in the cabinet and I could hear the whirring noise from where I was standing. I later went to the cabinet and it was making noise, unlike before. So I'm assuming it may go live soon? Anyone who has experience with this let me know what this means for the status of the cabinet.

I just came here to post an update on the same cabinet, looks like it's imminent to go live as it's already showing expected FTTC speeds

http://www.dslchecker.bt.com/pls/adsl/ADSLChecker.Ad...

Yup I see the same, and the openreach checker is going bezerk and saying Under Review, so that has to be good.