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[Alex Atkin UK]

That brings up an interesting point, does a new run of fibre have to made all the way to the exchange or does it depend how much spare is at the aggregation node?

[tickmike]

To my eyes our street looks very easy - 110m of ducting from the current (ECI) cab with 4 access points along the way.  The route from the exchange looks rather more complicated though.

The local cab and exchange may not have anything to do with the Fibre build,
My 'Headend' exchange is 12 miles away and my local exchange (3 miles) is not used.

[Robbie]

Final work complete with the use of mini-digger to fix a collapsed bit of ducting. All ducts on my cul-de-sac are fully cleaned-out and with blue pull-ropes installed at all points to my house for the final pulling of fibre.

A few days later the blue ropes were then used to pull in replacement bits of regular telephone cable, rather than fibre, as the work had abraded through my existing copper wires (plus they fixed a corroded junction) which caused my current connection to degrade significantly.  Along the way the junction vault lid surround broke free, requiring a new frame and lid to be concreted in at some point.

I guess these things are never easy!

😂

[RintySkinty]

Mate - the good news is that Gainsborough is well up and running with FTTP delivery under the 'Rural FTTP programme'.

Regulars on here will know, but to reiterate ... there is a ghost-plan (blueprint) created initially of each PON (typically a PON serves up to 120 homes). Once these have been created, then a proper, real-life person  goes and performs a manual survey to fine tune the GP data and submit to Planning.

From what I can see on the quick-view (its a map of the area with life-cycle colours denoting at what stage each PON is at), I would humbly suggest around 1/4 of Gainsborough have had manual surveys carried out, to date. The post-code you gave me being one of them. 

Sorry it's a bit late, I've just seen this and registered just to reply, I'm at DN21 1GB, could you tell me If my postcode is also in the plan? This 70mb is painful 😅😭

[RealAleMadrid]

@RintySkinty The BT checker for your postcode says FTTP not available, the Openreach one...

https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband   

Says build planned between now and 2026 which is not very helpful

[Robbie]

Sorry it's a bit late, I've just seen this and registered just to reply, I'm at DN21 1GB, could you tell me If my postcode is also in the plan? This 70mb is painful 😅😭

I've just seen a team surveying your bit of Park Springs, so you are in the plan.  The south east corner of Park Springs is already done, as is the area to your immediate north.