New Openreach Broadband Availability Checker

FTTP Checker: https://www.openreach.com/fibre-checker (trial at the moment before go live soon)

In reply to a post by adslmax:

FTTP Checker: https://www.openreach.com/fibre-checker (trial at the moment before go live soon)

Useless it is, fine for finding out what is already available’ but no good for finding out when things are going to become available. According to it, FTTP will come here between now and 2026.

It's certainly going to cause confusion. For me:

Ultrafast Full Fibre Broadband (1000Mpbs). Perfect for: Digital phonelines
Standard Broadband (24Mbps): Perfect for: Analogue phonelines
Superfast Broadband (10-18Mbps): Perfect for: Analgoue or Digital phonelines

So the slower Superfast is ok for digital but the faster Standard isn't. If that isn't going to cause confusion with the whole PSTN switchoff I don't know what will. Or does 'digital' not mean an IP phone and i'm mistaken?

Edited by zebb_edi (Tue 15-Nov-22 08:39:28)

Digital must mean IP, I get the same split but why is digital not available on Standard. The predicted speeds on Standard and Superfast are odd for me, standard is 24mb but I only ever got 8mb on ADSL 5 years ago before I went 4G and neighbours tell me its got worse and Superfast is 1mb and never tried it.

Yes they are odd for me too. Almost like they've mixed up the `Standard` and `Superfast` labels and gotten them the wrong way around.

It almost seems like they are trying to mislead people towards the ultrafast, when in reality I thought IP phones didn't use that much bandwidth.

How can they say that the USO is 10Mbps and will be suitable, but 24Mbps can't support a digital phoneline?


...... or it's just a simple mistake.

Edited by zebb_edi (Tue 15-Nov-22 09:01:14)

I don't think it is based on speed just on the tier of service. ADSL services (standard) say ok for Analogue. Both of the fibre based services say ok for digital or analogue. The services that it is ok for are based on whether it is FTTP/FTTC/ADSL not on the speed (at least from what I can see).

On yours for the TV does it say standard is good for "Streaming TV", Superfast for "Streaming HD TV" and Ultrafast for "Streaming 4K TV" - that is more of an indicator as your predicted speeds are better on ADSL than FTTC so if the TV still goes in that order then they aren't considering the speeds at all.

Yes that's exactly what it says. The slower 'Superfast' is suitable for streaming HD.

Pretty useless if they aren't considering speeds at all. Especially since the standard ADSL is waaaay over estimated than what I ever got.

With mine, I get sensible results except it also shows 24M for ADSL download (BTW checker says "up to 13", with range "7.5 to 17.5"). Hopefully they'll fix that.

However, I think they ought to at least grey out the boxes where the service isn't available. A first glance says "Yay! Ultrafast is available!" - until you notice the little red tab at the top which says "Build not announced"

In reply to a post by zebb_edi:

Yes they are odd for me too. Almost like they've mixed up the `Standard` and `Superfast` labels and gotten them the wrong way around.

It almost seems like they are trying to mislead people towards the ultrafast, when in reality I thought IP phones didn't use that much bandwidth.

I think the highest quality VoIP codec has a max rate of 64kbps or something like that.

In reply to a post by candlerb:

However, I think they ought to at least grey out the boxes where the service isn't available. A first glance says "Yay! Ultrafast is available!" - until you notice the little red tab at the top which says "Build not announced"

It's a trial, which Max failed disclose in his OP.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2022/11/openre...

One would hope it will be tweaked and any bugs ironed out before an official launch