In reply to a post by MCM:

I'm part of a cluster of 75 properties, all EO, 2km or so from our local exchange, Vauxhall in Kennington, London. Not commercially viable for BT to carry out the necessary network rearrangement at this time and even so, if they were to take the easy approach and stick cabs outside the exchange we would see little benefit. As you know, no BDUK funding is currently available for us in London.

That was my point, where the ones I saw was a BDUK project (i.e. keeping the cost down), maybe the place outside the exchange was in the middle I don't really know, but I saw that about half was too far away to be offered fibre, where they could of re-routed and split up the EO Lines to the nearest cabinet of in the worst cases install a new cabinet, that way more lines would be able to get fibre.

And yeah I was aware of no BDUK within Greater London, which kind of sucked being put on hold in favour of them, but if originally down for the commercial rollout it does end up getting done like ours is almost done and we are just wait for BTOR to join our other end and we should be ready
Twas a long 3.6 years wait in torment seeing all the hardware up the pole that long and people several doors down with it LOL.

In reply to a post by MCM:

Since lack of fast broadband was starting to affect property prices and more importantly for some, rental income, it was decided that we couldn't wait for the government to catch up and after looking at various alternatives such as Hyperoptic it was agreed that we would go with BT and gap fund the project. The important point was that we insisted that the FTTC cab be placed close to our properties and not outside the exchange and this BT are doing by installing an all-in-one immediately outside the entrance to the development. This should hopefully mean that all properties can expect to see speeds in the range of 65-80 Mbps downstream with the majority towards the top of the range.

I think we spoke about your group funding in another topic (well I think it was you lol), but yeah, if it you that is group funding it, I should think you should have a choice where in an area you want the cabinet, like having it placed 2km wouldn't be worth it.

Grats in getting it outside the development

Paul

Never say never, have seen a number of lines that have shifted like this, usually seems to be one or two premises in an area where the wiring is suited to this sort of arrangement

Hi all,
As a Hatherleigh resident myself I am keen to know about this situation too.
There are now two new cabinets right outside the local exchange.
I know that I was connected direct to the exchange due to my closeness to the exchange - 200 meters as the crow ( or Noist Jackdaw bar steward flies ). As such we were not lucky enough to be included in the earlier rollout of fibre here.
I have sent an email to CDS to ask them but there auto response tells me in can take three weeks to respond !!!
My question is, if anyone can help me, could this mean an imminent availability of fibre to me ?

Thanks in advance ...
Nobby.

Hi Nobby, the official line from CDAS is by the end of this year, after speaking to the engineers I am hopeful it will be before then fingers crossed, I have replied to your pm.

Progress going well! just ran my line through the checker, no FTTC data but I am no longer an exchange only line!!! now showing on Cabinet 5.

Paul perhaps if you have time could you see how many lines have been moved on to PCP5?

In reply to a post by Storm_Force:

Progress going well! just ran my line through the checker, no FTTC data but I am no longer an exchange only line!!! now showing on Cabinet 5.

Paul perhaps if you have time could you see how many lines have been moved on to PCP5?

Checking now, will take around 30 to 40 mins, so far I can see a fair amount being moved over to cabinet 5 not all though.

I will edit my post once I have the info.

*** update ***

BT Wholesale Exchange Information.

• Exchange Name: Hatherleigh
• Exchange Code: WWHATH
• County: Devon
• Total Connections: 1,350 (approximate)

• EO Blocks
  
  • FTTP: 0
  • FTTC: 0
  • ADSLx: 52
  • None: 0
  
  
• Cabinet: 1
  
  • FTTP: 0
  • FTTC: 590
  • ADSLx: 7
  • None: 4
  
  
• Cabinet: 3
  
  • FTTP: 0
  • FTTC: 66
  • ADSLx: 27
  • None: 0
  
  
• Cabinet: 4
  
  • FTTP: 0
  • FTTC: 152
  • ADSLx: 0
  • None: 0
  
  
• Cabinet: 5
  
  • FTTP: 0
  • FTTC: 0
  • ADSLx: 450
  • None: 0
  
  
• � Detected 2 Issues.

All above information is correct at time of 10:58 28-July-2015.

� Detected Issues could be stuff like:
Your address has been successfully matched; however we cannot determine ADSL availability at this address. Please try the Telephone Number or Postcode Checker.

That's seems like a good start for the EO Lines, only 52 EO Lines spread over 18 Post Codes to go.

Paul

Edited by PaulKirby (Tue 28-Jul-15 23:20:44)

Brilliant thanks Paul

Woohooo:

FTTC Range A (Clean) 48.7... ....33.8.................... 10.1.. 6.4 -- Available
FTTC Range B (Impacted) 40.3 ..24.1............... 10.1....... 5 --... Available

Went live this morning over 3 months ahead of the planned date, due for activation 1st Sept.

In reply to a post by Storm_Force:

Woohooo:

FTTC Range A (Clean) 48.7... ....33.8.................... 10.1.. 6.4 -- Available
FTTC Range B (Impacted) 40.3 ..24.1............... 10.1....... 5 --... Available

Went live this morning over 3 months ahead of the planned date, due for activation 1st Sept.

Nice, grats.
I hope you get good results.

Still waiting for BTOR to pull their finger out and realise our FTTP is all installed and update their database, all BTOR engineers say its all complete and just need the database to be updated, but seems to get put back month after month, even though there is a home on our pole that has fibre.

Kind of sucks really

Paul

Had you had me beg for you with Openreach yet?