Cabinet 3 as of this morning. Engineer says fibre will be connected in the next hour or so.
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In reply to a post by Irby:

Cabinet 3 as of this morning. Engineer says fibre will be connected in the next hour or so.
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Just drove past some engineers in Irby village that looked to be splicing cables coming from cabinet 3's direction towards the exchange, fingers crossed Dave.

Any Idea when we will be able to order?

Afraid not, just keep an eye on the various checkers and have your favourite ISP on speed dial for when it goes enabled.

I have an IFTT alert set up so I'll get an SMS when the page changes to enabled.

In reply to a post by Smithy99:

In reply to a post by Irby:

Cabinet 3 as of this morning. Engineer says fibre will be connected in the next hour or so.
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Just drove past some engineers in Irby village that looked to be splicing cables coming from cabinet 3's direction towards the exchange, fingers crossed Dave.

Do bear in mind as mentioned in the last thread, the fibre IS NOT coming from the Irby exchange. The cabinets are connected directly to the Arrowebrook exchange in Upton Village.

In reply to a post by Irby:

I can't remember the other cabinets that haven't been completed but they are all pretty central and fairly near to the exchange. They have to prioritise cabinets further away from the exchanges and there's only limited manpower. Thousands have been recruited in the last couple of years but a company cannot just keep taking on new staff indefinitely.

I think your local knowledge isn't as good as I thought

Cabinets 2 and 3 are the most remote from the exchange out of all cabinets in Irby. Historically they have provided the slowest speed out of all 19 cabinets.

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This is doubly frustrating, the cabinets that were upgraded first in Irby were either BDUK (in I think 2 or 3 cases) or ones already receiving good ADSL service, >15mbbs in many cases.

And before anyone starts, yes I know that's just how it is. I know that OpenReach haven't done it just to annoy me/us. Yes I know there will be a valid reason blah blah.

Anyway, the OpenReach guys who I chatted with on Friday are gone now, they told me they were a kind of tactical unit who are deployed to problem exchanges, they had about 6 blokes and they are able to clear ducts, blow fibre and splice it. He told me if they don't have any problems the remaining cabinets will be 'lit' by the weekend. He also told me that otherwise, it would be at least another 2 months.

On Saturday, the OR had gone, but there were Kelly Communications vans in the village and working near the cabinets, I have no idea what they are doing.

That's it. I'll be back when I see something worth reporting back on, I know from PMs there are quite a few users who don't post on the forums, which isn't surprising really.

I'll keep them informed also

Pip pip!

My local knowledge is the best you will find on here I'm afraid!
I know where the cabinets are but you're right I can't remember the cabinet number of every single cabinet. Even if I can picture them in my head! So I probably thought you were talking about other cabinets. My general point though is that Irby exchange covers quite a small exchange area, the cabinets don't have very long D-side lengths compared to other exchanges nearby.

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I do realise that they are coming from Upton but I would imagine that that is somewhere passing by Arrowpark way which is the direction the were heading with the cable, From Irby village that is down Thingwall road passing Whaley Lane which is where the exchange is.

Hence my comment "towards the exchange"

Yes the cabinets in the village go via Whaley Lane to Pensby Rd where they link onto the fibre cables feeding Heswall from Arrowebrook that were originally pulled through in 2011.

In reply to a post by Icaras:

Yes the cabinets in the village go via Whaley Lane to Pensby Rd where they link onto the fibre cables feeding Heswall from Arrowebrook that were originally pulled through in 2011.

That might also explain why I also saw them right outside the Pensby Hotel doing the same sort of splicing.

In reply to a post by Smithy99:

In reply to a post by Icaras:

Yes the cabinets in the village go via Whaley Lane to Pensby Rd where they link onto the fibre cables feeding Heswall from Arrowebrook that were originally pulled through in 2011.

That might also explain why I also saw them right outside the Pensby Hotel doing the same sort of splicing.

Definitely would. I remember back in 2011 when the fibre went in back to Arrowebrook, quite a lot of digging was involved along Pensby Road and Arrowe Park Road.

It annoys me that I have to pick a post to reply to on this forum instead of just adding a new post. But anyway, latest update:

Engineers are at cabinet 2 now, cabinet 2 is completed, it has power and fibre. The engineers are there to put a fibre extension to cabinet 3, that *should* be completed today. He said that if they finish today and all the physical work is completed, he'll put a piece of yellow sticky tape on the cabinet, so look out for that.