Thanks. I believe Andrews and Arnold have prodded Openreach via email today. They might have got confused because I ported my landline number to AASIP voip and they issued a new geographical number to my line. I'll be glad when fibre comes because I've had an ongoing, unresolved REIN problem. I've had to constantly tweak settings all the time in an attempt to maintain a connection. Sometimes I just have no connection at all and just have to tolerate it. It is believed to be coming from a neighbours solar panel equipment.

Do you really mean FTTP? It doesn't have "boxes". It sounds more like FTTC.

Mine did that. Finally got the cabinet last month, about 7 years late.

Maybe referring to the green pole mounted passive optical splitters

Yes, I mean fttp, Fibre To Premises. I use the term "box" loosely. These boxes are not really box shape, not like a cabinet is a big box. My cabinet is over a mile away, in the same village as the exchange. These are small boxes. There are loads of them in my area, on the lamp posts and telegraph poles. This is what my green box looks like: http://buxtedvillage.org.uk/2016/01/11/fttc-and-fttp...

Its a GPON fibre splitter and at top of poles there should be some black connectors or a bottle shaped object.

Yeah that's right. It had the fibre coiled up but it hasn't been coiled up for a little while now. There's a metal shroud going down the pole. The splitter boxes have numbers scribbled all over them. Anyway, mine is just on the other side of the road from me. I can't make use of it yet.

Good news is I've managed to order the FTTP I've been waiting for, for around 6 yrs. I bought a brand new router about 4 or 5 yrs ago in anticipation. Will be able to do away with my bridge. Although, the router I currently use as my ADSL modem, would actually be compatible, according to AASIP. So it's not the case that all modems with adsl capability are incompatible, as I had previously assumed. Hopefully I'll get a decent speed,but above all else, I'll be glad to see the back of the REIN problem. BT maintain it comes from a house with a solar panel, from the inverter. However, I'm more suspicious of the neighbour that has a field of panels. I don't think it's a hundred percent REIN. I suspect BT can't be bothered to maintain the copper. Not sure I blame them. So the black things are connectors?