Hi,
Although I used to work for BT, I was exchange based so my knowledge of cabinets etc is limited,
In the area I now live (Billinghay exchange), the cabinet I am connected to (Cab 3) is around 950m from my house, unfortunately there was a new cab (Cab 6) installed in the second phase of the development I live in which is only 140m away, fibre enabled, and serving just 87 people. My speed isn't horrendous (around 20mb on a good day) but obviously could be better, but I know I can't complain as there's many much worse off than me. It seems to have a lot of customers (495) and is often at capacity for FTTC ordering, and the internet connection suffers badly in peak times, presumably a combination of crosstalk and line length (see below pics)
Having sussed up the info on CodeLook, I can see most of the EO lines in the village have been moved onto a new cabinet (Cab 7) outside the exchange which is listed as having 463 lines now and is also FTTC enabled. No pics unfortunately
There are two other BT cabinets in the area that don't appear on CodeLook. One is about half way between me and Cab 3, next to a pole which is marked as DP 25, and has a black box at the top of it which I assume is the DP, see picture below.
There's another cabinet that went in around 18 months - 2 years ago for a new development round the corner, which is marked as '9', but there is no cab 9 listed on CodeLook. I think there are about 10 houses in this development but more planned, maybe around 100.
Are these two cabinets possibly sub cabinets of Cab 3? If so, what are the chances of my line running through the one between me and Cab 3, and is there a possibility they might install a FTTC cab one day next to this cabinet to improve speeds at my end of the village and alleviate capacity issues further back? Wishful thinking I know!
There is a proposed cabinet listed as E_4 on CodeLook but I have no idea where this might be going. It's due in December apparently so we will see. I doubt it will be anything to do with where I live as there are still a fair few without FTTC available off my exchange.
On a completely separate note, I was surveying for an electricity connection to a new cabinet today, and I assume this is a combined FTTC and normal cabinet for EO lines, this is on the corner of the A16 and Grainsby Lane here, in North Thoresby exchange area, nothing shown for it on CodeLook yet. I suspect they didn't use this for the EO lines on the new cab outside my exchange as there are quite a lot.