Much of that time from LAs is probably in order to try and reduce the number of different utilities visiting the same place in a short time. There are ways they could possibly be more pragmatic about things but that can be difficult when you are working on a large scale and everyone wants to be an exception.

And if you thinks LAs are bad try getting a line installed that crosses church land. That can take forever to get permissions sorted out.

And finally, I worked for a local authority installing broadband access in schools. It was no easier for the authority to arrange way leaves with either itself or with church owned land that it is for anyone else. There were no back doors to speed up the process.

HI nidave, no am in the North East area it seems Openreach have similar timescales no matter where you are.

Hi MHC

According to BT bod on BT Community forums who has emailed me an update one duct has been cleared with another due to be cleared tomorrow with cabling Friday.

As far as I can tell two sections are being replaced hence two duct clearances. If they are both in the same place I saw them working then it is under a grass verge.

BT Openreach vans have been spotted today at the exchange so lets hope progress is being made.

Now seen holes in pavement and grass verge, presumably this is the ducting work near the exchange, cant see it complete with cabling for Friday.

Emailed BT CEO today and got an immediate call lets hope he can sort this mess out, phone still dead.

BT High level complaints are now dealing with this but haven't seen any engineers on site and they were supposed to be this weekend.

Also saw on the News last night that another village up the coast had a mile and a half of BT cable stolen and the whole village is off. Maybe that's where Openreach are as the village has been off for two weeks and it's a complicated repair. Pure speculation on my behalf though.

As of 10am today were back in services with a wopping SNR of 10db compared to 4.5db before and a full 8128 sync, woohoo, it's good to be connected. Thanks Ian Livingstone and his team.

Still going strong. What I dont get is that my attenuation before the new cable was 23db and SNR of 4.5db. Now its 25db and 10db respectively. Wonder if they put me on a cable on my own with no crosstalk because that's a heck of a jump in SNR?

What are your full router stats and your exchange?

A rise in NM is good if you are limited to an 8 Meg package when your line is capable of much more, about 17 Meg in your case. Indeed, I would expect it to be much higher, in the 20 dBs.

Full Stats

Modulation: G.992.1 Annex A
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 448 / 8,128
Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [KB/KB]: 0.00 / 0.00
Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]: 12.0 / 19.5
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]: 11.5 / 25.0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]: 23.0 / 10.0
Vendor ID (Local/Remote): TMMB / TSTC
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
Loss of Signal (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
Loss of Link (Remote): 0
Error Seconds (Local/Remote): 58 / 0
FEC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 0
CRC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 74
HEC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 50