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Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: Weaver on June 04, 2018, 05:16:56 PM
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[Apologies if I have asked this before, but my memory is completely shot with all the drugs.]
More and more houses keep getting built in our small village. As many of you probably are aware we are four miles at least from any other civilisation on the end of EO lines. There is not a single house between me and the cluster of houses near the main road at Harapul on the outskirts of the village of Broadford where the NSBFD exchange lives. You can see the location on the map if you look up IV49 9BN in google maps say. In fact there was an extensive thread about the run of the copper lines, with pics, some years ago.
So my question: what happens when the village outgrows the bundle of copper pairs that serves it currently? What exactly are BT likely to do?
FYI I am pretty certain on the basis of the codelook (is it ?) website, which publishes data on telephone exchanges and even individual green cabs, that BT are putting in FTTC in Broadford itself and at various locations to the north and to the east heading towards Port Rėgh and towards the Skye Bridge respectively. I think they will have put in shiny new FTTC cabs very recently in the places near the main road that are deemed to be deserving in order to achieve this.
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Your exchange appears to have 8 FTTC cabinets that are currently live, with a 9th being commissioned.
Cabinet P2 FTTC being Activated, live due by July 2018 Phase BDUK HIE 15b Huawei IV49 9BY
Cabinet P3 FTTC Available from 14th July 2017 Phase BDUK HIE 17b 29 Huawei IV43 8QZ
Cabinet P4 FTTC Available from 1st October 2016 Phase BDUK HIE 15b 305 Huawei IV49 9AF
Cabinet P5 FTTC Available from 31st March 2017 Phase BDUK HIE 15b 64 Huawei IV42 8QA
Cabinet P6 FTTC Available from 14th March 2018 Phase BDUK HIE 15b 45 Huawei IV42 8PZ
Cabinet P7 FTTC Available from 30th March 2018 Phase BDUK HIE 17b 24 Huawei IV49 9AN
Cabinet P9 FTTC Available from 22nd November 2017 Phase BDUK HIE 17b 84 Huawei IV42 8PY
Cabinet P10 FTTC Available from 1st June 2017 Phase BDUK HIE 17b 81 Huawei IV49 9AZ
Cabinet P13 FTTC Available from 8th August 2017 Phase BDUK HIE 17b 26 Huawei IV49 9AJ
They are all BDUK funded.
It's likely only 1 is a larger 288 Huawei (cabinet P4).
The others will be either smaller Huawei cabinets or AIO cabinets.
The majority of your exchange appears to be EO bundles.
You appear to be Exchange Bundle 8
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It's very detailed, that site, isnt it. A valuable resource. It is good that they can even get that information and can publish it.
Does anyone know what will happen about the line to the village if they run out of pairs, or approach that point ?
Could it be that unlucky late-comers have a problem or delay getting a copper pair when BT have to find a solution? Or does BT normally upgrade somehow ahead of time so that the next customer will not have a huge wait for a new service?
I wonder about an engineer coming out and finding that all the few unused pairs left are bad anyway, or would they just know that from notes made by previous testing, and so not have to make a site visit that is doomed to failure.