Location of my street cabinet?

The BT Broadband checker gives me the stats for my phone line connection and also the cabinet number. I take it this cabinet is actually within the local exchange. Is there a map which shows where the STREET cabinets are located in my area? I'm assuming that when fibre is rolled out in the village here, reputedly 4th qtr 2015, it'll be fibre to the street cabinet, then either fibre or copper wire to the house. Is that correct?

As you have a cabinet number it will be located somewhere in the vicinity of your house. It could be a mile or two away. To my knowledge there are no publicly available maps showing the location of the cabinets - BT do hive internal documents. The best way is to see if you can trace your line from pole to pole until it goes underground and then make a guess at the route. The cabinet will have the number painted on it.

Yes, with the fibre roll out there will be fibre to a second cabinet housing the DSLAM, this is normally within a few metres of the existing cabinet although it can be up to 100 metres away. A tie cable links the cabinet and feeds the VDSL signal onto your line which retains the original route to your house.

That's if it's FTTC. FTTP is also specified by PCP cabinet number but doesn't touch one, not have a fibre cabinet.

If you give the exchange and cabinet number, maybe someone can tell you where it is.

Thanks for the responses.

The exchange is SMLW Oxfordshire (Longworth). It says my telephone number on the exchange is served by Cabinet 5. I assumed that this cabinet would be within the actual exchange building - is that correct or not?

I see no BT street cabinets in the immediate vicinity. Internet images suggest BT street cabinets are likely to be either green or black. Cables here are predominantly underground, and I'm aware of several BT inspection covers in the verges and on the pavements. My best gestimate for distance from the exchange to my house is about 2.5Km.

Just read about EO lines, i.e. NOT going to a street cabinet. How do I tell if I'm on an EO line?

How do I tell if I'm on an EO line?

Because earlier in your post you said that you were on cabinet 5. EO lines have no cabinet between the end user and the exchange. It could of course be that you were on an EO line and that BT have or are in the process of moving the EO lines to a new cabinet 5 however if cab 5 is in close proximity to the exchange FTTC won't help you much as VDSL usually gives a worse connection at 2.5Km than ADSL.

Hi

Try this:


https://www.telecom-tariffs.co.uk/codelook.htm?xid=1...

You can look-up by your postcode or phone number or look-up locality (use Longworth). You can play around and get all the details for the cabinets, distances and % of homes on each postcode that will be upgraded to fttc for each cab etc.

Andy

No, the cabinet will not be in an exchange. According to a comment on the linked page

"5 is on Draycott Road, next to the new housing development."

I don't know if that means anything to you. I couldn't find it on Streetview. It should be a modest-sized, rather drab green cabinet.



http://kbsbroadband.org.uk/kbs-broadband-future/

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Just an update to say I found it. The cabinet is a rather tatty looking affair, and on Streetview it's backing onto a hedgerow and can be found near the northern end of Draycott Road on the western side. I'm assuming from the comment I found that there's some new housing there now, and Streetview is out of date.

Edited by deleted (Mon 26-Jan-15 22:08:51)

Also isn't that exchange area on the way to get FTTP from Gigaclear?

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.683092,-1.423451,3...

Yep, that's it. I said it looked a bit tatty. Yu can barely read the number 5.

As I understand it in terms of the villages
Kingston Bagpuize is being installed at the moment by Gigalcear
I think phase 1 and 2 are in the bag and phase 3 almost there in terms of sign ups
Each phase is a GC village cabinet sub-area which means around 300 to 400 homes usually
Facebook KBS link
and
KBS broadband page
Southmoor - I think this is part of the KBS project phases and not a different one as the villages have in effect merged to become one and are being treated as one.
The OP needs to put their post code into the Gigaclear project progress checker at
GC postcode checker
to see what phase they are in and the sign up percentage so far.

Gigaclear are looking at Longworth/Hinton as one of their next projects

Edited by deleted (Tue 27-Jan-15 08:47:09)

All good, very useful info - many thanks to everyone.

You're right about the new housing developments. The village is inundated with them! As for Gigaclear, I shall be giving them a miss...

Thanks zom22

Just noticed there was lots of Gigaclear activity planned in the area when I was looking at local roadworks tying to see if there was any Openreach works being done in regards to fibre.

Interesting that there are Gigaclear and Openreach (BDUK funded) works being done within the same area.

It is quite possible that the "BDUK" work due on the cabinets is not actually being public funded but is being done by BT alone with no public money - now that the area is also being commercially installed by GC.
(remember that BT is part funding BDUK work anyway)

OCC recently had a revised open market consultation and it is quite possible that the area was taken out of the intervention zones due to GC's imminent presence. But no revised map has yet been published so all we have is the original August 2013 one.

There's a very good Oxford postcode map for the intervention area (albeit very slow), and the postcode near the cabinet in question (and, indeed, the whole village of Kingston Bagpuize) is covered by the intervention area. Target date for installation is the end of March 2015.

In some ways it looks like a pretty good target for FTTC as there are several cabinets in the village, and nowhere seems to be too far away.

I'm not sure how Gigaclear enable villages like this. Much of the phone cabling in the village appears to be underground (certainly in the new development areas). Putting fibre into new housing estates is not too bad if the ducting is installed at the right stage, but it must be rather expensive digging up pavements in existing housing stock.