Mains power? Or backup from the battery with the electronics sitting in a low power mode currently.

Connecting Cheshire will prob be wrong.
They won't be commissioning the cab without power.

From the cabinet being ready to go it can take weeks/months to perform the necessary live-to-live migration.

They need to coordinate a date with every ISP connected to the current FTTC cabinet that is being moved to the new FTTC cabinet.

Check the OpenReach site regularly it should update when power/fibre is connected.

Check the roadworks.org page regularly and check for any work at and around the cabinet.

Edited by j0hn83 (Wed 24-Oct-18 09:57:40)

Well over the last week both the bt dsl site and the openreach fibre when& where site state we are now connectied to cab 39 (the new cabinet). Openreach site says we are now awaiting power to the cabinet.

Does this mean live to live migration has happened?

I can see roadworks for 2 weeks time in the lane for openreach which look to be for ducting to the pole for overhead power.

Finally some neighbours suggesting that we definaty haven�t moved to new cabinet as speed has not improved. However my take on it that speed won�t improve because after all we are still the same distance (3 miles) from exchange all with copper. It�s just that the �middleman� (ie the cabinet)is now closer to us rather than closer to the exchange. Is this correct

The new cabinet will require power, and most likely some testing before being made live.

The live to live migrations won�t be started until the new cab in ready for service.

That�s what I had initially thought. But why do openreach and dsl checker now both show us fed by cab39 ( the new cab)

But the VDSL2 estimates have not changed yet have they?

Hi sorry don�t understand the vdsl estimates bit

Do you mean on the dsl page

It now says vdsl 32.2 high and 20 low and then at the end says planned

In reply to a post by AngS:

Finally some neighbours suggesting that we definaty haven�t moved to new cabinet as speed has not improved. However my take on it that speed won�t improve because after all we are still the same distance (3 miles) from exchange all with copper. It�s just that the �middleman� (ie the cabinet)is now closer to us rather than closer to the exchange. Is this correct

No, that's not correct.

The thing that determines the speed of FTTC is the copper loop distance from the cabinet* to the end-user. That's the whole point of FTTC: to move the electronics closer to the end-user.

The electronics in the cabinet get their data uplink by fibre, and the speed of that uplink does not depend on distance.

The exchange does not take part at all, except for providing the voice service (dialtone). And it's now possible to have SOGEA, where you don't even get that.

* I am assuming that your new "cabinet" is either a pair of cabinets (a PCP plus DSLAM cabinet), or an "all-in-one" which combines both roles. Either way, it contains DSLAM electronics. It would be pointless, in this day and age, for them to install a new passive cabinet without adding FTTC.

The cabinet with electronics will have plenty of ventilation slots in it, and should have a "danger - high voltage" sticker.

Your line is now physically passing through cab 39, but that's is all. The FTTC service is still coming from the original cabinet which is why nothing has changed as yet regards the broadband speeds.
Once the cabinet is fully connected and commissioning then the job of arranging the live to live migrations can start. Once they are done the speeds should be improved.