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In reply to a post by EddyTheDog:

Well from what I can make out, there are no EO lines any more as PCP3 and 4 took care of that. You could try placing an order for fibre and see what happens.

Surely if some in Stretham were to be on FTTP, then they could surely not have hooked all ex-EO lines to a cabinet?

I might try that, I'm just worried that it cause be problematic given my number is due to change in the next few days. I'm also secretly hoping we're not on Cab 4 as it is a distance away from us (its basically at the exchange)

So...this is interesting.

Following being listed as being on Cab 4 over the weekend using my new (temporary) landline number, and being told by BT Wholesale's checker, BT Support & Connecting Cambs over the last two days that fibre is was available, I have now checked again now that my old landline number has been restored to my account.

Now, although it still lists me as being on Cab 4, it's now saying fibre is not available!

might need to give it a day or two to update

Still trying to get my ADSL BB sorted after my account holder changes two weeks ago, so havent ordered Fibre just yet as i want to be confident that my line is working (for over a week now my speeds are near enough ZERO (if i'm lucky im getting 0.5Mb/s) on a line that used to AWLAYS get 6-8Mbps until the account change. Dealing with BT has been a pain!

Speaking of which, looking at the New FTTC/FTTP areas for w/e 21st June 2015 Part 1 N-Z post, i notice that Stretham is listed with "UAX Z" as a prefix. Does anyone know what this means. I notice also that this week's list contains many such suffixes, what are these for?

AAnnnd just for completeness and to tidy the thread... Cabinet 2's area is now live with FTTP. Order has been placed

In reply to a post by EddyTheDog:

AAnnnd just for completeness and to tidy the thread... Cabinet 2's area is now live with FTTP. Order has been placed

Enjoy it. I've got 40-50Mb/s on my FTTC connection, thanks to being hooked up to a cab after being Exchange only. Sadly we are so far from the cab (which is in the area of the exchange anyway) we dont get the higher speeds. I just wish they couldve just connected us to FTTP (i know for a fact the cables go passed my house, as we saw them instaling it....oh well

In reply to a post by Salem874:

I just wish they couldve just connected us to FTTP (i know for a fact the cables go passed my house, as we saw them instaling it....oh well

Bet you wouldn't, we are down for FTTP and have been since end of 2011, so that's a 4 year wait for the hardware that's been there for 4 years to be turned on.

Granted we are part of the original 66% Commercial FTTP Project that was put on hold for all the BDUK work (I guess that's what happens when you live in Greater London), so you "might" of been ok.

Our local MP was told by BT's Head of parliamentary affairs that our FTTP has a projected completion date of end of the month, so hopefully it will.

Paul

Yes I was surprised just how far up towards the roundabout the FTTP is, but I don't think it's all accepting orders yet.

I went for Infinity 1 in the end, suits the needs of the household.. and my budget lol

How's everyone's connection in Stretham been over the last month or so?

My Home Hub 5 has been dropping WAN (internet connection) a lot recently. The definition of "a lot" (ie how often) varies but at it's worst it was dropping every 5 minutes.

After a lot of phoning BT (in India!) and being sent another Home Hub (5A again) to test if my (8 month) old Hub was faulty, I had a engineer visit on Wednesday (connection still dropped with second Hub). Again, Engineer said line tests are OK, just as the indian call agents advised when i called (although they could see the dropped connections). The engineer was however worried about out speed, as he was only getting 30Mb/s on a test, according to him we should be getting 40. We've had about 47Mb/s consistently for about the first month, this then slow started lowering (with no apparent instability on the line, no drop-outs), with the Hub eventually settling down to syncing at round about 37Mb/s.

Anyway, engineer went into the loft to check cabling, but all he could see of concern was that the cable was passing through some old connector of some sort (sounds like this isnt used nowadays), so he crimped the cable to bypass it, thinking this COULD cause issues.

Just now however, we again had a connection drop!

So, if there's nothing wrong in the property cablling, surely it's something else? Any ideas? I hope i'm not the only one seeing issues.

Personally, my connection has been rock solid, but that's as I would expect of FTTP. My HH5 type B does it's usual fortnightly reboot regular as clockwork. I had heard rumour of connection issues in the area in general, though, on FTTC.. no idea what that's all about.

Apart from that, the shiney new EE4G is doing OK, with O2/Vodafone due in the next few months I gather.

(Wondered who resurrected this old thread lol)

I am moving to the Manor Farm development in the next month or so.

Apparently we're served by Cabinet 3 which is "accepting orders" but the open reach website states "Your cabinet is enabled for Superfast fibre however you're not able to order fibre just yet. This might be because the length of the line is too long to get Superfast speeds. We're actively looking at other options."

Would anyone have an update as to progress on Superfast from this cabinet?

All help greatly appreciated.

Many Thanks.