According to BTOR that cabinet is still at build stage, at that stage they installed the cabinet.

Granted that work may or may not of been completed, if it has you will still have to wait for it to complete the Connect Stage where it connects the power and the fibres to the cabinet and then wait for it to be tested and then activated.

BTOR says another 4 or so months as an estimate, so it "might" be sooner or "could" be later.

Paul

Yeah I found it really bizzare, one of my work collegues lives on the same estate but at star lane and she is serviced by another cab.

I believe our cab ( 37 ) Is the one by DFS? I am still hopeful that it could go live before Christmas because at present we can't even stream Netflix let alone run our side business from hope - it's all done via 4g at the moment.

The flipside is hopefully virgin is here by end of feb so if our cab goes live in December for example, Do I wait to potentially get the 200mb virgin..

37 is by DFS, Star Lane is served by 31 which is by the roundabout next to Kaspa's. I remember years ago someone in the first lot of houses complaining how bad ADSL was up there, I did suggest they try Vfast Wi-fi but the tree's blocked the signal.

One benefit you will have is all new cabs are Huawei's, which are much better for various reasons than ECI which most of Thanet has. Dependant where you are on the estate I expect you'll have speeds into the 60's and 15 plus up, especially as it should all be new copper back to the cab.

I'm on the Wimpy estate, about 450 meters from the cab and only get 46/6 so as soon as VM is live I will be moving over. I am concerned about Virgins reputation but this is a brand new full FTTP network so have been assured there shouldn't be any capacity issues.

We'll potentially get speeds of 350/20 on business or 300/20 on residential and I'm sure the uploads will be increasing soon to compete advertising wise with Gfast

Hiya Ronski,

Vfast was our first port of call - They even came out and tried to find ways around the blocked signal for us but unfortunately couldn't. A Nice bunch and I am grateful they tried.

We are currently On the very tip of nash road, opposite the various garages there.

Our ADSL is indeed shocking - I think I will hold out for Virgin dependant on when it's available. If for example Generic 80/20 line via Bt or the like is available around xmas/start of the new year and virgin is not available till mid 2018 I'll probably opt for the shortest contract I can with BT and switch over when the time comes. I currently use a 4g connection Via EE, 75£ for 100gb and not being able to stream/download with that due to such a low data allowance is a huge annoyance for the fianc� and me.

Moving from Beatrice road where the fibre cab was literally behind the house to this connection has been horrible!

You have been a real help mate and It's truly appreciated. If there's anything I can do to help further enquiries by others I'd be glad to help.

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