Re: 3 Meg?

In the Spring, BT are going to start rolling out 'Fibre on Demand' to those willing and able to pay. The caveat is that your cabinet already has a FTTC twin from which the fibre to your premises can be spliced. No actual pricing has been announced, but initial indications are £500 for the install plus an unknown amount for blowing fibre to your house (£1000 has been bandied about for premises 500m from the cabinet).

One possibility is that your exchange will never be upgrade to fibre. Instead, your FTTC cabinet will receive its fibre via a spine from the closer exchange (cheaper, and has been done before). Then, at some point in the distant future your exchange will be shut and all lines migrated to the other exchange as BT have already announced plans to close smaller exchanges.

Re: Hang on a sec

No, they're only spending their own money. The BDUK funding has yet to start rolling, even in this areas where the bids have been completed. BDUK money is going or be used (primarily) for rural areas where BT have deemed it to be uneconomical.

Re: False Economy

Unfortunately, you're wrong. Currently OR are trialling "FTTP on demand" which means, for a price, you get fibre to the home from the existing cabinet (the fibre will be spliced off at the existing junction near the cabinet). Mass rollout is due to start next year.

Re: Hah!!

If it was Sept, it's now Dec. The checker has been updated.

Re: My Pi

Ha! CPC tweeted this morning that they've got stock.

Re: price

+1 for the Squeezebox - brilliant piece of kit as a kitchen radio (especially as we have very poor DAB coverage).

Re: How ugly can it be?

I should've added its the Huawei and ECI cabs that are currently being deployed.

Re: How ugly can it be?

Someone I know, has pictures of the different cabs..

See them here: http://www.robertos.me.uk/html/street_cabinets_etc.html

Re: Two problems...

"Secondly (and this is something James May commented on when he built his LEGO house) too many of the pieces are single-use."

My 6 year old would disagree - he likes the kits (got a space shuttle last year), but once the kit is built, it gets dismantled and the parts are used for all sorts of crazy contraptions that he conjures in his imagination. :)

He also love paper jets, water balloons & cardboard boxes :)

Re: Approaches on offer include delivering more difficult CAPTCHAs...

Those, along with the idiotic ones with no option of refreshing..

Thanks for the heads up..

TV Power

Actually, I cam power it off the TV. I have a Y type USB cable that has two ports for power to a single micro (like some of the 3G dongles use), that will power it adequately. :)