The local BDUK project Connecting Cambridgeshire has published an updated map at http://www.connectingcambridgeshire.co.uk/map/ with additional details for each parish.
Wansford's entry can be found here and it says "Superfast broadband is forecast to be available in your area between September and December 2015".
Friday 20 September 2013
Wednesday 14 August 2013
Cabinet hunting
Looking in the bushes around Wansford and the A1 is not without its moral hazards, but yesterday I found the elusive Cabinet 4 of the Wansford exchange on the slip road off the A1 :-
Note the footway box cover in front of it. This serves Wansford, Huntingdonshire or Stibbington North or whatever the correct term is for the bit of what we all call Wansford that is South of the river. The Post Office, Chapel Court, London Road, etc all show up as served by Cab 4 on the BT Line checker, as do the houses up on Elton Road Stibbington cum Sibson, the Stibbington truck stop and Nene Valley Railway. Cab 4 appears to serve the whole area to the south of the River Nene that is connected to the Wansford Exchange.
Previously we noted that Cab 5 at Yarwell crossroads serves the village of Yarwell, Cab 2 on Parkway / Station Rd Nassington serves Nassington including Mill Road which means they have a fairly long run to the cab and a double-back from the exchange. Suttons garage is also on Cab 2 with a cable run of 1.9km so it will be interesting to see what uplift in speed is possible there.
Sutton village is the home to Cab 7 on The Drift at the junction with Nene Way. A summary so far..
Note the footway box cover in front of it. This serves Wansford, Huntingdonshire or Stibbington North or whatever the correct term is for the bit of what we all call Wansford that is South of the river. The Post Office, Chapel Court, London Road, etc all show up as served by Cab 4 on the BT Line checker, as do the houses up on Elton Road Stibbington cum Sibson, the Stibbington truck stop and Nene Valley Railway. Cab 4 appears to serve the whole area to the south of the River Nene that is connected to the Wansford Exchange.
Previously we noted that Cab 5 at Yarwell crossroads serves the village of Yarwell, Cab 2 on Parkway / Station Rd Nassington serves Nassington including Mill Road which means they have a fairly long run to the cab and a double-back from the exchange. Suttons garage is also on Cab 2 with a cable run of 1.9km so it will be interesting to see what uplift in speed is possible there.
Sutton village is the home to Cab 7 on The Drift at the junction with Nene Way. A summary so far..
- TBA
- Nassington
- TBA
- Wansford south, Stibbington, Sibson.
- Yarwell
- TBA
- Sutton
- Wittering
Sunday 11 August 2013
Wansford exchange "under evaluation"
The BT Openreach "when and where" site has Wansford listed as "under evaluation" for fibre based broadband, as a consequence of Connecting Cambridgeshire BDUK project.
Castor and Elton are also listed, but the Northants exchanges haven't popped up yet.
To benefit from the fibre to the cabinet service your phone line needs to be fed through a cabinet, as many are in Nassington, Sutton, Wittering, Yarwell etc. Many in Wansford are fed from the exchange direct, and won't benefit, but they already have fairly fast service available. At some point there may be other solutions for direct lines, depending what the local projects choose to do.
Being on an exchange with a fibre capability doesn't guarantee you a fibre based service, as the people of Water Newton know - they are a long way from their exchange (Ortons) and do have a small cabinet but the number of properties is small and so far the BT commercial rollout has passed them by. It will be interesting to see if Connecting Cambridgeshire addresses Water Newton - a slow spot with less than 2M broadband on a commercially enabled fibre exchange.
Castor and Elton are also listed, but the Northants exchanges haven't popped up yet.
To benefit from the fibre to the cabinet service your phone line needs to be fed through a cabinet, as many are in Nassington, Sutton, Wittering, Yarwell etc. Many in Wansford are fed from the exchange direct, and won't benefit, but they already have fairly fast service available. At some point there may be other solutions for direct lines, depending what the local projects choose to do.
Being on an exchange with a fibre capability doesn't guarantee you a fibre based service, as the people of Water Newton know - they are a long way from their exchange (Ortons) and do have a small cabinet but the number of properties is small and so far the BT commercial rollout has passed them by. It will be interesting to see if Connecting Cambridgeshire addresses Water Newton - a slow spot with less than 2M broadband on a commercially enabled fibre exchange.
Tuesday 30 July 2013
BT Signed up
BT have won both the Superfast Northamptonshire contract, which used the BDUK Framework, and the open tendered Connecting Cambridgeshire contract which includes Peterborough.
Hopefully this will maximise the chances of the Wansford Exchange getting Fibre to the Cabinet and other services in due course. Northamptonshire still have their parish survey running until the end of September 2013.
Meanwhile I've seen several users in Wansford with download speeds well into double figures of Mbits/s using BT 21CN services, and my own line at 2.5 km length can manage a whisper over 10M.
Recently we've had Vtesse trench their fibre-optic ducting through Wansford, Kingscliffe and Nassington. They are building an extension to their fibre network to connect up a commercial customer - believed to be a bank. With some imagination the duct could feed high speed connections into our area, but Vtesse have opted out of the retail market. The multicore duct can handle multiple fibres and each fibre can handle multiple wavelengths, so the data capacity of this ducting is practically infinite.
Hopefully this will maximise the chances of the Wansford Exchange getting Fibre to the Cabinet and other services in due course. Northamptonshire still have their parish survey running until the end of September 2013.
Meanwhile I've seen several users in Wansford with download speeds well into double figures of Mbits/s using BT 21CN services, and my own line at 2.5 km length can manage a whisper over 10M.
Recently we've had Vtesse trench their fibre-optic ducting through Wansford, Kingscliffe and Nassington. They are building an extension to their fibre network to connect up a commercial customer - believed to be a bank. With some imagination the duct could feed high speed connections into our area, but Vtesse have opted out of the retail market. The multicore duct can handle multiple fibres and each fibre can handle multiple wavelengths, so the data capacity of this ducting is practically infinite.
Wednesday 23 January 2013
Cabinet details now available
If and when we get to see any of BT's "superfast" broadband using fibre connections to street cabinets (FTTC) it will be of interest to know which cabinet you are connected to, as not all are enabled by default. You may also find you don't connect via a cabinet at all, which rules out the copper based FTTC service but there may be other options coming along.
BT Wholesale's availability checker will now tell you what cabinet you are on, as shown by the result below for a house on London Road, Wansford :-
This was a learning experience for me, as I hadn't noticed any cabinets in Wansford itself. Off to Google streetview to have a look.....
BT Wholesale's availability checker will now tell you what cabinet you are on, as shown by the result below for a house on London Road, Wansford :-
This was a learning experience for me, as I hadn't noticed any cabinets in Wansford itself. Off to Google streetview to have a look.....
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