Well, there's been no further action around the new cabinet, no sign of any BT vans or the like. I think they've forgotten us

Another odd thing cropped up on adslchecker.bt.com just before the works on the cabinet started, a date of 21-Feb-18 appeared for WBC ADSL2+, presumably that's an exchange upgrade to 21CN.

Anyhow, this date has been but back to 23-Mar-18 today.

Would there be any connection between the 21CN work and our new all-in-one cabinet, or is it coincidence that it's taking place at the same time?

I think they would have to route all the EO Lines that it will support through it and the power if it hasn't already been done, these will / may require digging work i.e. more planning, this all takes time.

Paul

No link.

My first FTTC line went live in early 2011, a few months before 21CN went live on the exchange. However, that exchange wasn't the head-end for fibre, so the presence of 21CN there didn't matter.

By now, every exchange that BT intends to be a fibre head-end will already be active. Every remaining cabinet will be routed (in fibre, anyway) back to a head-end where 21CN facilities are already present.

I didn't think there would be a link, well technical anyway.

They are doing some other work in the immediate area, 3 new cabs and some duct clearing work, I thought perhaps the work had been coordinated to happen over the 2-3 week period they were 'in the area' so to speak...

...then the 21CN changeover seems to have been pushed back a month.

It's around a week since your AIO cab was stood. Ours was stood in January 2016 and wasn't available for use until September 2016 with the rerouting of our EO lines taking place in either late July or early August. I live in central London and much of the delay was due to problems elsewhere with getting the fibre to the cab with our local council, Lambeth, being unhelpful and obstructive..

Well, FTTP is available 100 yards away from the new cabinet, and that was done 6 months ago, so hopefully it shouldn't be too far away.

The local BDUK said fibre would be available by the end of March.

New works have appeared today on roadworks.org

https://roadworks.org/?104959413

16 Mar - 20 Mar

Highway Authority: Nottinghamshire County Council
Location: (PCP5) OPPOSITE HILLSIDE COTTAGE , TOWN STREET
Description: Excavate Power hole
Works ref: BC005WP00400500250712801
Current status: Planned work about to start

The end of march is possible, but depending on the amount of EO Lines and where they all routed, but I have doubts it will be done by the end of March.

Paul

We are pretty much on the end of a cable run from the exchange, there will only be a couple of lines which continue out of the village at the other end. The new cab should serve the lines for 20 properties, all of which run directly beneath the new inspection pit.

From the new roadworks entry, it looks like the power connection hasn't yet been done, the hole in front of the cabinet which looked like it should be for power has been filled back in. To be honest, and I know all these things are supposed to be recorded on County Council services maps, I'm still not 100% convinced that there's actually any electricity supply cable in that grass verge.

Other odd things are happening on dslchecker.bt.com, The revised date for 21CN, which by by strange coincidence tied in with the new date on roadworks.org, has disappeared overnight and is now showing ADSL2+ as 'Available'. Nothing seems to have been disturbed at this end though, no ADSL resync or anything that might indicate anything being swapped over...

Edited by sparky_paul (Fri 23-Feb-18 09:45:30)

Probably looking at another 2-3months +