Bt Fibre to Cabinet

Ignore 31st Dec/31st March estimate. My cab was installed in September and was activated on 13th December. I recommend you query the BT Wholesale checker once a week.
 
Still not showing any info on BT Infinity for me :( I know we are definately getting FTTC by end of March, the fibre has been laid, does anyone know how long till the green cabinets will start pitching up, when will wholesale checkers show info and what determines likely locations for the cabinets?

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I live about 5km+ from my exachange (in the sticks, get ~1Mbit atm) - is there anyway to tell where the nearest cabnet is? I should be getting FTTC sometime in March.
 
From what i gather the only way to tell is go out walking and see what is around. I guess they are adding more new green cabinets than there are old ones as my nearest cabinet is about 1.5KM (that i can see) away and they have laid the fibre past this point by about 3-4KM
 
Is there anywhere I can go that will show me the location of the cabinets for my area? BT says I can have fibre when they checked my postcode (not on a bt line - post office) but I can't find a cabinet near me. there is a small one about 100 m from where I live but I can't see 2 together anywhere here. Just trying to get all my facts right before I go ahead and try to order cos it will mean changing the line back to BT etc.

Update - I've called twice and emailed BT support once. One call said I could get infinity, the other said I couldn't and my exchange wasn't live (which it is). Just had a call in response to my email and he said I can't get it either. When I told him I'd been told I could he said he'd have to go back and check again. The way this is going perhaps I should just keep well away from BT!
 
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Your cabinet is planned to have WBC FTTC by 31st March 2011. Our test also indicates that your line currently supports a fibre technology with an estimated WBC FTTC Broadband where consumers have received downstream line speed of 26.6Mbps and upstream line speed of 6Mbps.


So is that saying it will be ready in march or it already is?
 
bloodline76 said:
100g limit is a bit off putting. Anyone who "needs" 40mb d/l and 10mb u/l would surely easily eat up 100gig in no time.

If you only use 100gig per month then you don't really need fibre in my eyes.
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Not so though because some people on very long lines with no cable are stuck on slow (sub 5mbit) lines which may struggle with video streaming and the like. While bandwidth and usage are undoubtedly related, they are not directly proportional for people that do more than just download.
 
vail3r said:
Your cabinet is planned to have WBC FTTC by 31st March 2011. Our test also indicates that your line currently supports a fibre technology with an estimated WBC FTTC Broadband where consumers have received downstream line speed of 26.6Mbps and upstream line speed of 6Mbps.


So is that saying it will be ready in march or it already is?
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It's saying it will be ready by March, or they will probably delay it until the summer as they seem to keep doing everywhere else. I don't know why they word it so badly by saying that 'your line currently supports...' when it doesn't, that's just BT's estimate for when you can get FTTC.
 
sigh my uncle in an old peoples home can get fibre but the rest of my town cant how bs is that cmon old people with 40mb? all lazy bt did was take the goverments money in northern ireland and install it for commercial premises along the main road, some 18 million odd quid.

i live on that main road and my local cab is there, yet they skipped it completely and 90% of the town.its so fustrating because im still paying a fortune for zen 8mb just to get a quality line and i only get 100GB a month.

so in a nutshell the exchange is now live for fibre for what i would guess would be 30 odd people at most who would have signed up while everyone else has to sit on 8mb.

no numbers to phone or email adresses you just have to keep sucking up all the unfair bs which reminds me am i now paying 50p tax on my bill for this crap?.

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Probably should not be gutted but i am slightly. Cable literally runs right along the side of my property to the green cab which is about 1400 meters away. So frustrating that it passes with in a couple meters or so from my house only to tavell that much further to the cab to have to travel back :( I guess looking at the table on page 2 i will get around 25Mb although BT predicts 12.5Mb.

Very pleased for my mate though he will be getting about 40Mb from his current .5Mb
 
cliffy said:
Probably should not be gutted but i am slightly. Cable literally runs right along the side of my property to the green cab which is about 1400 meters away. So frustrating that it passes with in a couple meters or so from my house only to tavell that much further to the cab to have to travel back :( I guess looking at the table on page 2 i will get around 25Mb although BT predicts 12.5Mb.

Very pleased for my mate though he will be getting about 40Mb from his current .5Mb
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Time to google "build your own fibre cab"
 
cliffy said:
Probably should not be gutted but i am slightly. Cable literally runs right along the side of my property to the green cab which is about 1400 meters away. So frustrating that it passes with in a couple meters or so from my house only to tavell that much further to the cab to have to travel back :( I guess looking at the table on page 2 i will get around 25Mb although BT predicts 12.5Mb.

Very pleased for my mate though he will be getting about 40Mb from his current .5Mb
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i thought the max distance for vDSL was about 1200m :eek:?
 
What do these green cabs look like? I've just noticed a new fenced off compound on the edge of my estate with two green cabinets about 4' high 6'wide. Fibre is not planned for my area (Hereford) what could they be.
 
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