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My recent thread about Fibre To The Cabinet coming to Holsworthy has been very helpful, so thanks to all who replied. I have also searched the internet and spoken to my ISP, and other ISP's about all this. This follow up may be interesting/helpful to others on the list. I have noticed a new, larger cabinet appear nearby recently. Then last Tuesday I was at a meeting where we had a short talk from a BT rep and a Torridge counsellor about "Connecting Devon and Somerset". The schedule at the moment seems to be - Holsworthy available from December 2013 Bradworthy and Hatherleigh available from March 2014 Beaworthy available from June 2014 Since my house is about 400 metres from the new cabinet I decided to find out more about it all. Hence my recent questions for the list. Here is what I have discovered from all this. (If I am wrong in any of the following please tell me.) I live in a fairly new house, 2002, in a small estate. The master socket for the phone is just inside the front door. There are also extension sockets in the lounge and upstairs in the master bedroom and one of the smaller bedrooms. That last was an extra I arranged while the house was being built. Others on the estate seem to have a master socket by the front door, one in the lounge and one in the master bedroom. My brother lived at one time in a new house off North Road where the old school once stood. He also had the master socket by the front door plus two extensions. Why all this going on about the master socket? Well, since I have lived here I have always had my desktop computer in the smaller bedroom and used the extension socket. This has worked really well. Now I find that, for FTTC, I *must* use the master socket, which is in the entrance hall. This seems to be the scenario if I decide to go for fibre. An Openreach engineer will come to install a 'Service Specific Front Plate' to the master socket. He will also provide a modem (please note, not a router) which will need to be connected to my router. I have found out that my current router will not work so I will have to buy a new one. (It may be that the engineer will also provide a suitable router.) Now my problem is that I want my router to be upstairs, not by the front door. So I will need to find some way to get a cable from the hall up to the bedroom upstairs. My feeling at the moment is that I can't be bothered with the hassle and the cost. I already get about 12 Mb/s at the moment, and that should be fine. So as and when people on the list find that fibre is now available to them it would be a good idea to check the whereabouts of their master socket. It could be, as I have found, not in the best position for them. Sorry this is so long. I hope some of this will be useful, Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq