Sunday 23 January 2011

Cabinets - can you help

If we want to get faster internet access via our local BT street cabinet it's handy if we know where they are. There's one in Parkway in Nassington (numbered 2, below) and one at Yarwell cross roads (5). I found two in Wittering - a larger new one on the main road in off the A1 Townsend road at its junction with Burghley Avenue, and another small ancient one (8) not far away on a corner on Burghley Avenue.


If you are connected to one of these, and if BT or another operator puts a new active broadband cabinet next to it (or close enough to connect to it) then up to 40M downstream / 10M upstream services would become available. If you are in Wansford and your cables go direct to the telephone exchange then FTTC isn't an option at the moment, sorry. Nassington and Wittering would benefit most, as they are about 4 and 5km from the exchange so using the cabinet chops a big piece out of their copper cable length and hence reduces signal loss dramatically.

So, dear readers, where are they situated ?

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