Fibre Cabinets in Wittering

After a comment made on the blog by Steve I had a quick drive up to Wittering and found two BT FTTC Superfast cabinets :-

These may be coming into service in the next few days, as the Yarwell cab has been fibred and powered up and Nassington have been told service is "imminent". You can see which cabinet you are connected to via the BT ADSL Number checker for example Café Delight is on Cabinet 3 :

BT BROADBAND AVAILABILITY CHECKER

Telephone Number 01780784822 on Exchange WANSFORD is served by Cabinet 3

In fact while typing this I see that at least some Wittering residents also have FTTC services available, Café Delight can order a predicted 60M service :-


Telephone Number 01780784822 on Exchange WANSFORD is served by Cabinet 3

Featured Products	Downstream Line Rate(Mbps)		Upstream Line Rate(Mbps)		Downstream Range(Mbps)	Availability Date
	High	Low	High	Low
FTTC Range A (Clean)	80	74	20	20	--	Available
FTTC Range B (Impacted)	80	61.9	20	12.2	--	Available

 
To get one of these services you'll have to upgrade or change ISP to one offering a suitable Fibre based or "Superfast" service, BT Infinity being one option. There will probably be a minimum 12 or 18 month contract to cover Openreach's minimum term for cabinet connections.

Sky and Talk Talk may take a little longer to provide a service as they do it slightly differently using their own kit in Wansford exchange with a handover from BT's fibre to the cabinets, however at the time of writing both Sky and Talk Talk systems are offering me fibre off the new cabinets. If you're with either of these two, or fancy switching to them, give them a buzz.

Typically packages will offer "up to 38" or "up to 76" MBits/s in the downstream direction with 2, 10 or 20 MBits/s (approx.) in the upstream direction. Not all combinations exist, and there are other options like priority traffic and ISP's GB per month bundles. Expect to pay about £40 per month for line rental and superfast broadband together, with offers like reduced price for 6 months for new customers.

Example of Talk Talk offer for their cheapest service :-