Full again!

That's another 64 ports gone, again in less than 24 hours.

I tried to warn OR and Digital Durham when they installed the small cab in February but they didn't want to know.

Ho hum

People must be watching the OR checker to get orders in that quick or can you order ahead?

With 1mbps knowing how ports aren't available wouldn't you be? Haha

Only enough ports provisioned for around 1/3 of properties connected to the PCP, so they're hot property!

In most areas 1/3rd would be close to enough - take up is not that much higher than that on average.

Where the average speed of the estate is 1.5mbps, I expect takeup is way higher than 1/3.

Indeed, but the normal process would be to install and then upgrade as they go. If they put in too much capacity then it has a knock on effect - minor for a single cab but large if it happened across the estate. So, they use the normal process - install the standard amount then upgrade as it gets full. Not sure what modelling they would use to work out how many customers might connect to ensure they don't waste capacity - it appears their model is incorrect in this case.

I managed to order mine at midnight yesterday but it looks like the cabinet is full again already! You literally have to check several times a day. It's crazy. I wonder how much capacity remains in that cabinet now?

Not with BDUK cabinets as far as I know. They should provision enough capacity for everyone in the intervention postcodes to be able to access superfast speeds. The issue on this estate is some of the postcodes didn't exist when the tender process was done, and they are technically not supposed to have access to superfast speeds, but in reality, we all know it matters not as long as your line goes through the enabled cabinet.

Openreach installed a larger BDUK funded H288 cab on the other half of the estate (phase 1) which is served by a different PCP with only ~220 properties.

It all stems down to the BDUK tender being done for the existing postcodes when there were only 100 or so lines on cab 63 and not all of the current postcodes existing. This is despite Openreach knowing it was an ongoing new build estate as they would have been told by the builder how many properties were expected to be built, so they could provision enough E-Sides (which they have also failed to do on a number of occasions). Openreach didn't relay that to the BDUK team or have the forward thinking to expect demand to be high given the very poor ADSL speeds on the estate. However it probably wouldn't have mattered as the BDUK funds I assume have to be proven to be spend on X number of properties in Y postcodes, they couldn't spend money on prospective postcodes.

A large number of folk get 0.6mbps in the test socket

Fingers crossed they are able to install a new cab, or at least perform the high density upgrade to the cab to give an extra 64 ports with relatively little work.

Edited by deleted (Wed 16-Aug-17 10:12:00)

None. It's completely full.

Last card installed. Capacity now back available