I don't really know what order they do stuff, as for their working times, I have seen them working on our Splitter Node as early as 8am.

Paul

Alright, cheers for that Paul!

I'll have to hope that it's only power that's remaining, otherwise I'll probably be waiting a while. I assume they know what they're doing, and won't take 4+ years like Openreach.

Every time I've ever put my ear to an active fibre cabinet I've heard the fans. I'm sure you're right and they are temperature controlled, and speed up when hot. I'm pretty sure they always spin though. I've heard them spinning away with 6 inches of snow on the ground and outside temps below 0.

I don't know the power consumption of the fibre hardware, but they may still get hot regardless of outside temperatures when under load. It's also possible that it's a newer feature on more recent fibre cabinets, whereas older hardware may not have had the ability to connect the cooling fans to the control board.

Edited by thebigdolphin1 (Thu 16-Mar-17 17:45:45)

UPDATE!

Our cabinet is now showing as the ACTIVATE state, indicating that only a few tests remain - should be live within a week or two (or even tomorrow)!

Edited by thebigdolphin1 (Thu 16-Mar-17 17:55:21)

Keep checking it every hour.

A friend of mine had a cab go from connect, to accepting orders in 2 days. No activate stage at all shown on the checker. No engineers seen at the cab (outside of hos house and was over a weekend) from Saturday to when it was still on connect, to Monday morning when it changed to accepting orders

Once it goes live, hopefully TalkTalk don't take a month to show as available, otherwise it'll likely run out of capacity before I can even place my order.

Edited by thebigdolphin1 (Thu 16-Mar-17 18:03:45)

You wanna hope the have cable links ready at the headend then!

I don't think there are that many properties connected to 8, unless there are a lot in Lodge Moor? Certainly nearer the cabinet, where I am, there aren't very many - there are several other cabinets nearby serving nearby streets. Sounds like we are finally near activation!

The last time I counted a year back (using address and postcode data), there were about 500. SFSY has recently also moved a bunch of EO lines near me to the cabinet (bit weird as we're only expected to receive 15Mbps, and they're even further away) - probably 100 to 150 more.

Overview of connected postcodes, provided by CodeLook - not all postcodes are completely supplied by this cabinet.

More than half of the connected properties will currently be receiving ADSL speeds below 5Mbps, so I would imagine almost everyone connected will be wanting to upgrade. Not to mention that a lot of people who live here have a good amount of money, so upgrade cost won't be a big deal to most households.

Edited by thebigdolphin1 (Thu 16-Mar-17 18:31:17)