We live in School Lane and the cabinet is not active - still says planned at 40-50Mbps for our phone number, unlike the phone number for the pub which says available at 78Mbps. 

Nothing changed here !

330 FTTP! 

Or 80 if I want to slum it. 

Contractors have laid cable to cabinets, but not aware of the fibre being blown through yet?. The stretch I refer to is Station Road. Contractor told me there was two cables laid, one capable of holding 32 and the other 96 fibre optics. He did not know when the optics would be blown through as was not done by them, hopefully not long now!

Thanks for the update on the O2 mast which is still causing problems with our service. They had advised us that the problem had been fixed when it hadnt been. 

For those of you not yet "approved" for fibre broadband, here is the update this morning from Better Broadband for Norfolk;

Hi Robert,

I’ll double check with John, but no I’m not aware of any issues.  Different cabinets take varying times to go through commissioning, so I’d expect it to be live within the next few days.

I have contacted my current supplier and they have advised they can swap me to fibre within 5 working days. I am changing supplier anyway to get a better deal, but thought this might be useful for anyone staying with the same supplier. 

live on station road, just called and ordered fibre. Guaranteed 54mbps the nice lady tells me. Starts in 5-7 days

More from TalkTalk Business - We can't get fibre on School Lane.

"Thank you for contacting TalkTalk Business. I apologise for the delay in the response. Ultimately, even if the BT Wholesale checker shows that Fibre broadband connectivity is available, this does not mean that TalkTalk Business may be able to supply a Fibre service at the same exchange. The BT Wholesale checker only describes Fibre connectivity on the BT network. An exchange may have a portion of the equipment required to supply Fibre, but it is actually your green street cabinet that requires additional equipment in order for Fibre broadband to be available on your line. Moreover, Fibre broadband is only available on lines that are within a certain distance (line length) from the street cabinet. If this is present and the line length is correct, our systems may report Fibre is unavailable to you if we do not have our equipment present at your exchange for Fibre. At this moment in time, we cannot provide a Fibre service on your line, and there is no foreseen date for availability of a Fibre broadband service. If you have any further queries, please don't hesitate to contact us."

We were pleased to here that at long last our village is catching up with Broadband.  Then this morning I was disappointed to find that both BT and Open Reach have indicated that we are still unable to obtain "super fast fibre" here at Pilgrims Farm.  The Open Reach website indicates: "Your cabinet is enabled for Superfast fibre however you're not able to order fibre just yet.  This might be because the length of the line is too long to get Superfast speeds. We're actively looking at other options."
This is particularly odd as we have two neighbouring properties that have both been successful in ordering the new fibre connection, one through BT and the other through PlusNet, with scheduled connection and suggested speeds of between 70 and 80 megs, compared with our current half a meg'ish appalling speed.  Whilst I expect our line may be much older as it is likely to be the original line to the farmhouse, the length of line would be the same or possibly even less, and we are closer to the cabinet than most if not all on Chapel Road.  On the checker it appears that most properties cannot get the new connection and it is only a handful that can.  I'm hoping that this will gradually improve over forthcoming weeks, as more connections are made or upgraded.  I have submitted an enquiry to Open Reach (as there does not appear to be any means of calling them and speaking to a human) and asked for clarification as to when we can expect connection or advice of what needs to be done.  The automated response indicates they will "...aim to respond within 28 days..".

Hopefully we wont have to wait too much longer for our progression into the 21st Century, but I'll not hold my breath just yet.

Thanks to Robert Foster for efforts and updates so far.

With best regards, Andrew (Pilgrims Farm)

Does this mean that most of the properties in Spooner Row are still without a decent broadband speed?  Are all properties operating from the Top Common cabinet (cabinet 40) still at the same slow rate?

Looking at the BT Broadband checker for School Lane, nothing has improved.

To the person who lives on Station Road who has ordered fibre with a guaranteed 54mbps to start in 5-7 days, who is your supplier, please? 

Further to my post yesterday, when I left this morning at about 7am and drove past the cabinet next to the pub, there was an Open Reach engineer working on the cabinet.  I'm hoping they are still making connections for everyone.  Will continue to monitor and report back if i get a reply or manage to establish an upgrade. 

Superfast fibre now available from Cabinet 40 (Top Common) BT now accepting orders

speed has not changed in Station Rd  !!!!!!!

Stephen if it does work please let me know as I finally got half and answer from TT tonight which admitted that they do not  have their links enabled BUt they will let me know when they are.

I have Sky already on TV

It was ever thus with TT who always seems to be on the end of the Open reach queue and to be frank they do not seem to care and never have

Robert Foster has just advised me that Open reach have ****ed up and have incorrectly updated the website that everyone uses and they hope to have this resolved by the end of the week.

Hence the reason some are getting not available  messages

Just gone live here at The Sycamores (Chapel Road) and BT fibre returning 47.3Mbps but should improve as things settle over the next 10 days.

If anyone is having problems with upgrading to fibre or needs a little advice, please message me here or call/txt 07748 300820.

We live a few doors down from Robert so will be on the same cabinet 41 but its still showing as unavailable for us too.  It had initially shown up as being available when i checked the day it went live, but thought we would wait as we were going away for a few days and ever since then it just says the cabinet is live but we cant get it just yet, its all very frustrating!

Checked today  5pm  19th July on both bt wholesale and open reach and it now shows as available , cab 41 

Thank you Robert.

To the resident that I spoke to this moring, your property is now fibre "enabled";

Great news

You can get speeds up to 80Mb with Superfast Fibre 2 Unlimited, and you can get BT TV.

2, Station Cottages, Spooner Row, Station Road, Wymondham, NR18 9AH 

At last we have confirmation that we can connect at Pilgrims Farm. Go live date given as 07/08 so a little while to wait and meantime the service level on the existing appalling Broadband has deteriorated even further to pretty much non-existent. The cynic in me suggests they do that deliberately to get everyone to pay to switch. Nonetheless, I would strongly recommend shopping around for deals and if you are with BT don’t just automatically go with their website packages. BT tend to be around £15 to £20 per month more expensive than many other providers. When I called to enquire as to why that was and to effectively complain as to why I have been charged so much for so many years for an appalling service, they somehow managed to over the phone offer to cut their website price to me by £7 per month. Even with that I still found a much better deal £10 per month cheaper with £75 cash back and included calls to mobile (which BT confirmed isn’t available on any of their Packages). 

I’m not advocating everyone should leave BT, as I may find the service from my new provider is no better and perhaps it is worth paying BT the extra, but I’ve decided to give it a try.  Everyone has their own requirements so worth taking a look on the “Uswitch” website to see what deal suits you best.

Here‘s hoping for the future speedy Broadband we deserve. 

Good luck everyone!  Andrew

Hi Michelle

We are at number 8 and having had BT fibre for a few weeks now everything seems smooth and reliable.

Speeds fluctuates a little, but we are averaging 50-65 mbps.

I have dropped our itwisp service now as the transition has been fine.

Hope that helps.

Toby

I went with the 'Superfast Fibre Deal 2' deal to eek out a few more megs, but with hindsight the more basic package would have been fine.

https://www.productsandservices.bt.com/broadband/deals?s_cid=con_ppc_maxus_vidZ60_T1&vendorid=Z60&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9-za0qnd3AIV6LztCh2QKQWjEAAYASABEgJFg_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Getting cheap BT Sport was useful for me and the £130 reward card sealed it.

I will shop around more widely when the 18 month contract comes to an end.