Not talking about postcodes. Actual phone numbers is the deal here. When you check it's either available or it isn't. Outside of abnormal conditions it won't tell you, when you supply your number, that FTTC is available to you 6 months before the cabinet even goes in the ground as Adebov says. Unless this is some magic fibre.

Edited by orly (Fri 17-Jun-11 01:40:07)

The phone number is mapped to a postcode.

The DSL checker gave me estimates eons ago - certainly more than 3 months before the cabinets turned up. That, in turn, was 2 months before the exchange was announced as live. That was 1 month before most of my local cabinets went live. And that was 3 months before my cabinet went live.

So the checker was making predictions for my line at least 9 months before I could order.

Those first checks would give me dates of December 2010, even though the published date for the exchange (at the time) was September 2010.

Those were all using my phone number in the checker.

Yep, me too so I don't think it's that rare.

In reply to a post by WWWombat:

Hmmm.

Mine is 550m of 15 year-old stuff.

I could originally sync at 40/10, but got 4% packet loss. DLM has added interleaving (which killed the packet loss), but also (and later) dropped the sync to around 36/10 (profile of 34800ish).

I wonder if I need someone to look at it. I know they had some problems with the neighbour's.

You will not get any positive response.

Mine took a dive of about 5Mb and has never recovered. Plenty of BT and TBB records to show how good it was - but no joy in getting any intervention.

In reply to a post by orly:

Not talking about postcodes. Actual phone numbers is the deal here. When you check it's either available or it isn't. Outside of abnormal conditions it won't tell you, when you supply your number, that FTTC is available to you 6 months before the cabinet even goes in the ground as Adebov says. Unless this is some magic fibre.

When I put my phone no. into the BT Wholesale checker late last year it gave the response below:

Your cabinet is planned to have WBC FTTC by 31st March 2011. Our test also indicates that your line currently supports a fibre technology with an estimated WBC FTTC Broadband where consumers have received downstream line speed of 31.6Mbps and upstream line speed of 7.5Mbps.

In November the date given changed to 31st Dec 2010 and then changed anther couple of times before going back to 31st March. The FTTC cab was not installed until the 10th January this year.

Yeah, I'm kinda expecting it to go that way. Especially as more lines get added.

I'm now going to try to leave the link up without disturbance, to see if that strategy gets anywhere...