They should have H288 cab instead

BDUK specifying a H288 with line cards from start means them paying for it.

Filling up the gap funded part, then means that Openreach have to stump up the upgrade costs for more line cards etc

The real reason is that it's a new estate and when the tender was done, there were less than 128 lines active on the cab. As a result, only a 128 was budgeted for. They don't go back and re-check before the planning or build work starts.

That was some 2 years or so ago, there are now over 300 houses connected to the cabinet.

Got my port so it's not an issue for me, but a lot of people won't be happy.

It's ridiculous. Does anyone have any idea how long it will take to add more capacity? Will a new cabinet be needed?

2 more 32 port line cards will be added, usually one at a time, probably take a few weeks.

After they're both full it'll either be a new cab needed, or upgrades to the current one to utilise higher density line cards, taking tha maximum connections on the cabinet to 192.

Thanks. This seems very short sighted by Openreach, given the current connection speeds on the estate. I don't think I can handle another year of 1.5Mb ADSL broadband!

Council partly to blame, the survey was done a couple of years ago.

Expect more line cards in the coming weeks, rather than years.

In reply to a post by lavazza5:

It's ridiculous. Does anyone have any idea how long it will take to add more capacity? Will a new cabinet be needed?

It's a question of "how long is a piece of string?" My BDUK funded vdsl2 cab (NSICL #6, Huawei 288) went live in April 2014 and since then it seems to be permanently full. It shows as being full for months a time, then starts accepting orders for a day or two, then full for a few months, ad infinitum...

Edited by deleted (Tue 08-Aug-17 14:39:50)

If your cab is totally full, then it will likely only show accepting orders when someone ceases their service...that is until someone else the snaps up the spare port.

Similar thing round my way.

The PCP has around 900 lines connected and an ECI 256, and then my estate with 80 houses is built aimed a first time buyers or those with young families. When I moved in I got the last available port on the cabinet and the cabinet has had a waiting list for the past 9 months with the exception of the odd couple of days here and there when I assume ports have become free.

This cabinet was part of the commercial rollout and so far Openreach don't appear to have any plans to increase capacity. I've been trying to drum up support to possibly community fund a cabinet for the estate because of the current low fibre speeds on the Phase 2 area of the development but not getting much support apart from those that are currently waiting for fibre.