Looking promising, but as ever, until the cabinet is accepting orders, don�t get excited (as hard as that may be!)

I saw the yellow sign on the side of the road last week and the power work is booked in for next week. Next week it'll be 5 years since the cabinet was first due to live with the others, it's been a long wait and I've sent so many emails and had so many conversations that I'd given up on the cabinet ever going live.

I saw a guy with a laptop in the cabinet on Tuesday and thought it's not going to be long now.....and I just had an email from WSCC that they've heard from BT the cabinet is live.

Just spoke to my ISP and they've put in my order!!!! GAAAAHHHHH!!! After 5 years we've finally caught up! They are also offering upto 330Mb FTTPoD. Might enquire into the costs.

Yes. I've just ordered an upgrade with plusnet. Estimated 40 - 59mb. Please let me know costs and which ISP are offering fttpod. I've just entered an 18 month contract with plusnet and I suspect as I'm a couple of miles from the cabinet fttpod would be expensive!

At a couple of miles from the cabinet VDSL2 speeds of 40 to 59 Mbps are impossible, so your estimate may be out

Yes you are right. That was a terrible estimate. Google maps puts it at 0.4 miles. Still very expensive for fttpod I suspect.

I had a go-live date of 10th November from PlusNet.. I've just called them to check what's happening as I hadn't heard anything and they tell me it's been pushed back to the 23rd due to a lack of openreach engineers.

On the 3rd i was given 17th as earliest selectable date or ASAP. I selected ASAP as i thought they might get it in earlier but now been told 21st due to engineer schedules. Ive been estimated up to 51/11Mb which is a massive jump up from the 2.5/0.4 I get now.

Installed today and I'm getting 51/9.5. Very happy

Excellent, I saw someone working on the cabinet at around mid day.

Hopefully mine will go in on the 23rd. I wonder why if they have two orders waiting they couldn't do both at the same time...