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fibre being run !

Gary_C — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 16:22:37 GMT

Open reach have been very busy in our area for the last couple of months. Yesterday had a chat to the lads who are now running fibre into the chamber outside our house.

Looking on the availability checker its not even registering yet. A very large old victorian hospital was converted over the last few years and appears to have been supplied with FTTP (from the same cabinet farm as our estate), so I imagine OR are taking the opportunity to pull fibres through the ducts on to our estate built around 2002.

My question is, how long is it generally from Openreach running the fibre to it being available ?

Cant wait 🙂

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Forthay — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 16:51:21 GMT

We were about a couple of months and just kept periodically checking for availability. I suspect every case will be different but they’ll be keen to get it up and running.

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licquorice — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 16:51:24 GMT

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pippincp — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 16:53:17 GMT

How long's a piece of string? When it shows on the avaialbility checker is when you can get it..

BTW FTTP does not come from a cabinet.

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Longshanks0511 — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 17:33:56 GMT

This is one of the perennial frustrations of being a broadband consumer who aspires to upgrade. All of the major service providers require 12 - 24 month contracts yet can't or won't tell you what they are planning to make available in 12 - 24 days. How on earth an ordinary customer is supposed to make sensible, informed and cost-effective decisions I do not know. This is especially challenging in rural and remote locations where there isn't much competition or great profit in service provision.

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Gary_C — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 08:58:18 GMT

Very useful pip - thanks for that, your sooo helpful 🙂

And I meant the fibres all come from the cabinet farm area as I imagine the backbone runs through there and all the excavation work was done from this area. and they were pulling the cables through the ducts from here.

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licquorice — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 09:06:34 GMT

No idea what a 'cabinet farm' is. Fibre for FTTP comes from a head end exchange which may or may not be your local exchange to a splitter node and is then split out to the various properties. The only reason it might go anywhere near a cabinet is to utilise existing duct space.

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leaky55 — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 09:20:31 GMT

I had fibre pulled right up to my front door a year or two ago now. At that time I could not get it, even though some neighbours had it. I can only assume they had run out of capacity in the exchange.

With more of us in the house WFH, my wifes work connection is very poor on Infinity. I wnt on to BT yesterday and found FTTP 900 is now available for the same price I pay now, so went ahead and ordered it.

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Gary_C — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 17:20:07 GMT

Exactly, I used it as a simple term to identify where the main ducts are and is where our streets ducts meet the main road,. When the old victorian hospital was converted, the number of cabinets at this point blossomed into a veritable farm of cabinets providing VDSL to the hospital. Since that time, a further estate was built and FTTP cables have been run via this area to that site and now they are running from there through into the ducts in our street. Simple 🙂

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Gary_C — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 19:57:19 GMT

Its now saying 'soon' on the web site

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licquorice — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:02:19 GMT

👍

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Gary_C — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 09:25:06 GMT

Looking forward to it

Just a pity that while I am 'just' in a B4RN 'in planning' area, being on an estate across the road from the farm, its not available to us 'townies'. Shame, with its 1gb up and down speeds its faster than anything else available.

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jwatson2323 — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 18:35:43 GMT

Hi Gary. What website did you check to show it would be available “soon”. Also how long ago did they do the cabling work?

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Gary_C — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 08:41:46 GMT

Used the Openreach site https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/fibre-for-home which says 'soon' and the fiber was being pulled in my front garden two weeks ago.

I still expect it to be quite a while before it happens, but at least its not likely to be 'years'.

I suppose we are lucky, they have been pulling lots for the new build and our ducts terminate in the same chambers so I imagine it was a sensible option to pull it through to us while they were at it.

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jwatson2323 — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 08:44:07 GMT

Great thanks - I’ll keep an eye on the checker. They were pulling ours in on Tuesday, connecting to the CBTs in the underground chambers etc. Looking forward to it. Do you know if when you order it you can ask where the ONT is placed? Where our master socket is there is no power sockets at all so ideally would need to go round the back of the house

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Gary_C — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 21:31:53 GMT

So,

OR continue to run cables. Found out today that its not in our chamber yet, but should be this month.

So thats about a month so far. Getting nearer

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pippincp — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 07:06:04 GMT

@jwatson2323 The order team can't arrange where the ONT is sited. That is something the install engineer will discuss with you.

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bemak187 — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 09:33:42 GMT

Openreach pulled the fibre through the ducting in my street and those surrounding about 3 - 4 months ago. At that point was showing on the Openreach site as "soon" but no activity since and actually is now showing "no plans" on the same site. Spoke with OR and they said Sept to me it would go live. Either that site isn't very accurate or my area has been taken out of scope. Neither would surprise me to be honest.

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Gary_C — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 15:13:35 GMT

So now 5 months later, the web site is no longer saying soon and now says 'no plans' 😞

However, openreach were in the street today and the team confirmed that the build is almost complete and are doing the 'plan upload' stage (or something like that) and it should show up on the website as available to order in the next couple of weeks.

He also confirmed that they have run enough connections for every house in the street.

But why it shows as 'no plans' on the websire I have no idea.

A bit frustrating, but fingers still firmly crossed.

Wonder if I can get my MicroVax 3300 online 🙂

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Gary_C — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 15:17:33 GMT

and so because the openreach site shows only FTTC, I did the register interest for FTTP and have just got an email saying

Great news!

Your address is part of our Ultrafast fibre rollout programme. We'll keep you updated throughout the process as your address progresses through our build plan.

These are the details we have passed on to our technical team to get started.

So its looking better. Amazing it takes this long, but I suppose

A) we only see a small part of the work and

B) CV19 probably got in the way too