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[Ixel]

Yes, there's a but! It's still a trial and so is only being rolled out to 100 cabinets apparently - those of which are currently unknown. Expected to complete by the end of March. I wonder if this is why I saw two engineers with lots of equipment working at the fiber cabinet here recently (though the odds of that are unlikely, I don't think it was capacity issues either as I tend to regularly check the BTW's DSL availability checker to see if my estimates have changed and that gave no indication of a capacity problem). There's a possibility that BT will only use vectoring on cabinets which have a certain amount of lines connected (to reduce costs obviously), rather than roll it out to all.

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2015/01/bt-extend-uk-vectoring-trials-fix-fttc-fibre-broadband-speeds.html

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/6811-openreach-vectoring-trial-to-expand-to-100-cabinets.html

[Ronski]

I don't think it was capacity issues either as I tend to regularly check the BTW's DSL availability checker to see if my estimates have changed and that gave no indication of a capacity problem).

If you are only checking your estimate and you have FTTC you will not see any capacity problems. I've come across this in the past when somebody local couldn't order due to lack of capacity, but when checking someone else's line on the same cab who did have FTTC broadband it showed it as available.

[Ixel]

I don't think it was capacity issues either as I tend to regularly check the BTW's DSL availability checker to see if my estimates have changed and that gave no indication of a capacity problem).

If you are only checking your estimate and you have FTTC you will not see any capacity problems. I've come across this in the past when somebody local couldn't order due to lack of capacity, but when checking someone else's line on the same cab who did have FTTC broadband it showed it as available.

Ah interesting, didn't realise that. So it may still have been a capacity reason.

[jizzerman]

You can still check for capacity if you just use the address checker with your house number and postcode only.

http://www.dslchecker.bt.com/adsl/ADSLChecker.address

That's how I know the two 96 port fibre cabinets in my brand new estate are constantly maxed out.
Gotta love massive under-provisioning

[loonylion]

tried it, I don't see anything about capacity. I do however note that it says availability date 04 feb 15 when I've had it since november 2013

[jizzerman]

Yeah, that means your cabinet likely has little or no capacity, else it would be available to order for others in your postcode.
I had to watch the status on mine like a hawk, then order fibre on the day it became available.
Guess someone cancelled and I jumped in after 3 attempts.

[Ixel]

Come to think of it, I remember checking my address too and it still said available too. So maybe it wasn't related!

[Black Sheep]

You can still check for capacity if you just use the address checker with your house number and postcode only.

http://www.dslchecker.bt.com/adsl/ADSLChecker.address

That's how I know the two 96 port fibre cabinets in my brand new estate are constantly maxed out.
Gotta love massive under-provisioning

You can't 'over-provision' if you are running a business. There is no possible way for a planner building a job-pack for a FTTC, to know what the up-take of the product will be ??
I work in these cabs every day, and I personally can only think of two Cabs (out of hundreds), that reached saturation pretty quickly. The 'relief' work was carried out approx. 1yr later. 

[pooclah]

You can still check for capacity if you just use the address checker with your house number and postcode only.

Seems my cab is full
"FTTC is currently not available on this cabinet due to following reasons:- Sorry your cabinet is temporarily unavailable, capacity will be restored as soon as possible."

But the bad news for me is that it doesn't seem long before I get hit by some more crosstalk.  I hope the vevtoring trial doesn't take long.

[WWWombat]

Seems my cab is full
"FTTC is currently not available on this cabinet due to following reasons:- Sorry your cabinet is temporarily unavailable, capacity will be restored as soon as possible."

All you can tell is that it has run of some kind of resource.

It could still have empty slots, and be waiting for a new card to be added. It could have used all the pairs in the tie-cable to the PCP, and be waiting for some more. Or it could be full, and a whole new cab is needed.

[pooclah]

Yep possibly.  Either way it's going to mean more crosstalk and more lines effected (I’ve already lost 30Mbps of attainable over the last couple of years) so I’ll be happy to see vectoring fully rolled out.

[KIAB]

Over at 'Thinkbroadband' there is news about Openreach vectoring trial to expand to 100 cabinets , is there any list available showing where these cabinets will be.
Would be nice if they picked my cabinet in Bath.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/6811-openreach-vectoring-trial-to-expand-to-100-cabinets.html

[NewtronStar]

It's is a pitty out of the 100 FTTC cabinets on trial there is a not one user thats a member on the Kitz forum and why are the lucky trialist not coming out and giving there reviews 

[Chrysalis]

apparently is over 55k cabinets so 100 is a very small %, probably is why.

Also only techies would probably notice.

[Black Sheep]

As Chrys said ^^^^