Thanks kitz. Is it normal for BTW to show up G. Fast on checker even thought the cabinet isn't fitted any G. Fast pod yet. Nothing yet. I thought btw wouldn't updated on the checker until G. Fast pod has installed first and ready for service as planned. Last time I spoken to openreach they say my cabinet will be ready around summer 2018 for G. Fast.
I think there's some delays even if the checker is showing as available. My daughter is on one of the trial exchanges and pod in place, yet there are still delays. Admittedly I'm trying to read between lines here [pun intended], but I think may also have to do with ISP provisioning as I believe they will be one of the first residential g.fast.
Despite Zen having a presence in that particular exchange, I think they may be waiting on BTw to provision in this case rather than using the standard FTTC GEA cable-link. I'm getting this info 3rd hand so it may not be strictly correct, other than in this instance the SP appears to be wanting to use using BTw rather than their usual GEA FTTC cable link. She's been in the new property now for a couple of weeks and they still don't have any broadband... but the latest info is that hopefully it should be live in the next few weeks. Haven't got an exact date yet but it is meant to be very soon {2 weeks}.. and will obviously depend on one of them being able to take time off work for installation.
It's a shame MDWS is no longer live as I was going to try get over and set up on of my modems.
Using the powers of charm I recently picked up a new VMG8924 for me in return for a charity donation.. which means when I get around to it*, my faithful VMG8324 will be my spare.. leaving me a VMG1312 which I was going to give to my daughter to set up monitoring. However that said, they are not the type of people who would leave a PC on all day just to monitor stats. I will try get over asap, but right now until I get pain management more under control, my fear is that I may not be able to get there and back in one day, yet I have a poorly cat who needs 2x daily meds and cant go without his meds, so I can't stay over.
As far as g.fast monitoring of live data that will be extremely difficult. The Openreach modems are locked and afaik there is currently only one consumer g.fast modem/router (ASUS) which aren't cheap. :/
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* I've got so many things now hooked up to my network, that it would be no mean feat swapping all my prefs and configs over to a new modem