That's the one.

As I look at it, I'm guessing all the locations I'm trying are predominantly business addresses (as I want an office) and I'm guessing that all the locations I'm trying are served by cabs which are the "missing numbers" in that RFS cab list.

An overhead map would be very interesting showing which bits have been done and which ones haven't, but that would need postcode to cab mapping and could only be approximate given the postcode boundaries, line lengths and qualities and other factors, but would be interesting.

It might be that the cabs which were skipped are all the ones nearest the exchange on the basis that they can already get a fair to good ADSL2+ service, which would seem pragmatic, but it's not something I'd want to take the punt on, I'm looking for the minimum (theoretical headline) speed guarantee that comes with FTTC to have a decent chance of something usable.

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

That's the one.

As I look at it, I'm guessing all the locations I'm trying are predominantly business addresses (as I want an office) and I'm guessing that all the locations I'm trying are served by cabs which are the "missing numbers" in that RFS cab list.

An overhead map would be very interesting showing which bits have been done and which ones haven't, but that would need postcode to cab mapping and could only be approximate given the postcode boundaries, line lengths and qualities and other factors, but would be interesting.

It might be that the cabs which were skipped are all the ones nearest the exchange on the basis that they can already get a fair to good ADSL2+ service, which would seem pragmatic, but it's not something I'd want to take the punt on, I'm looking for the minimum (theoretical headline) speed guarantee that comes with FTTC to have a decent chance of something usable.

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them bieng in csv makes that easy to do i will have a look at it

Great find.

any idea what uplift means?

Looking at the line for my postcode

NIBA,"BANGOR, NORTHERN IRELAND",BT19XXX,{NIBA}{p23},0,100,12,NI 4a,YES,FTTC

I read the P23 as the cabinet number (which I knew already), the "100" means 100% of lines in our street can get FTTC, "12" I gather means 12% of lines currently have it. Probably not right though as some lines have way different numbers.

Edit: Seems the 12 is a factor of how much faster FTTC will be over ADSL speeds at that postcode.

Edited by orly (Wed 04-May-11 19:20:13)

"Mapping file that includes additional speed up lift factor per cab data. Uplift factor is a multiplier against ADSL2 average speed for lines on the cab."

Which seems right for my postcode for example.

However

NIBA,"BANGOR, NORTHERN IRELAND",BT196JR,{NIBA}{p48},0,12.5,4198.02,NI 4a,YES,FTTC ????

How much uplift would be required to existing line plant/furniture.

Can you explain that in plainer english for us thickos?

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

I just downloaded, (since your post), what appears to be the file - a zipped csv. 4.4MB, 47MB unzipped. PCP-PostCode report 13042011.

Clicked on it and it looks OK except OpenOffice CALC gave up at 65536 rows , which is still in the middle of Belfast City. Not a lot of use for checking whether it is right for my postcode in Stockport.

I don't fancy trying it with Wordpad or Notepad!

Neo Office (Open office clone) on the Mac reads it fine, Stockport starts at row 675066 and ends at 676540