Fibre Help pleaseeee

I live in an estate of 3 houses off a main road which is served by Lea Valley exchange. Our house is quite a distance from the exchange so we only get 1.5MBS through copper at the moment. I know from a BT Open Reach engineer that Fibre optic is in our cabinet (cabinet 21) but BT will not offer Infiniti as because of the distance involved they cannot guarantee the 12MBS that is required under their SLA with Ofcom or whoever oversees the system.
The engineer said we would probably get 5/6 MBS which would be more than enough for us but BT cannot offer us a contract on this basis. My concern is that this can never be resolved as it is unlikely that we will ever be able to get fibre as we will always obviously be that distance from the exchange. Any ideas??

What estimate does the BT wholesale checker give, as I recall FTTC is available down to 5Mbits but Infinity wont process slow speed estimates so may need to hunt around the smaller ISPs.

What distance are you from the cabinet (not the exchange) as that is the relevant distance for FTTC connections?

PM me your postcode and line number and I will check this out for you.

James

If it was BT you tried ordering from, did they offer your BT Total with fibre, which is what they offer to those who get slower speeds.

ADSL24 (Orders also taken for 5Mbps estimates and customers successfully connected.)
Aquiss (Orders also taken for 5Mbps estimates and customers successfully connected.)
BT (Infinity) (Also Broadband Option 3 with Fibre for when the estimate is below 15Mbps.)

Probably others as well now. One of the three has asked for details in PM, the second probably hasn't seen your post, the third has whoever you spoke to needing further training. (Option 3 with Fibre may have been renamed).

Edited by RobertoS (Tue 17-Jul-12 14:09:12)

Thanks a lot have contacted ADSL 24

James, sent the postcode through to you, not sure if you got it.

In reply to a post by Bald_Eagle1:

What distance are you from the cabinet (not the exchange) as that is the relevant distance for FTTC connections?

Not sure, I know I'm on P21 on Lea valley exchange but can't find the address of the cabinet or see it anywhere near the house

Got the PM so looking at it now.

James