In reply to a post by RobertoS:

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.

What version of OO? i'm using 3.3.0 and it's loaded it fine. Took ruddy ages but got there eventually. Oh and the default separators were stupid - I mean what numbnut wrote that bit of logic? You can see it now:

if( fileNameMatches("*.csv") )
{
separators=';'+' ';
}

The phrase 'what a pillock' springs to mind .

I was wondering if any of you could help me understand this. My exchange (Penketh) is scheduled to be upgraded at the end of this month. I had a look at this document, and according to it, every cabinet on this exchange will be upgraded except two. Both cabinets that are not being upgraded are quite distant from me. The cabinet my postcode is linked to (and all nearby) also says 100% in the percent lines column.

On the BT wholesale checker however, if I use my postcode it says that my area is due to be upgraded, and gives estimated speeds (10-26mbit).If i use phone or address lookup, it doesn't mention FTTC at all.

Is this an issue with the checker, or is it more likely they've cancelled upgrading my cabinet for whatever reason?

In reply to a post by Andrue:

What does it mean if an exchange/post code is not on the list? BT don't even consider it worth discussing?

:-/

Not all the UK postcodes are in that list.

Our exchange isn't planned, and none of our area's postcodes are in the list.

Not all of the postcodes served by any "enabled exchange" feature in the document, so yes, I presume it means it's not even being considered, whereas some do even though they're not being done (which is how you know they're not going to be done!)

im using oo 3.2 and it loading in <1 second no slower than it might load a 10 line exel file

Not all the UK postcodes are in that list.

there are approx 1.75 million postcode 'units' in uk
this list has about 0.8 million, (just under half of them )

Seems to be the Wholesale checker

Trefor's only showed the postcode locations, and the pop-up info box told you cabinet number.

it showed the cabinet number of the first record for that postcode, which though generally correct, left out details if more than one cabinet (or direct exchange...) covered the area

I am struggling to make sense of the document.

My postcode is listed on cab 16, which is not scheduled for FTTC (the last 3 columns are empty). However, in the percentage of lines column 2.5 is listed.

Does anyone know if this means that only 2.5% of lines at that postcode are on that cabinet, or if only 2.5% would benefit if it was upgraded to FTTC?

If only 2.5% of lines are on that cabinet, then where do the other 97.5% go? There are no other rows for my postcode.

My postcode represents one-half of a large block of 150 flats. The postcode for the other half does not appear on the spreadsheet at all.

2.5% of the lines in that post code are through that cabinet. The other 97.5% presumably are either through another cabinet or are directly fed (no cabinet)

In reply to a post by mattypi:

im using oo 3.2 and it loading in <1 second no slower than it might load a 10 line exel file

Weird. It's not like I'm on a [censored] machine either. It's a laptop with a 2.1GHz dual core Pentium and 4GB of memory running Win 7.