Basically the phone lines on your postcode are split, 86% are exchange only lines and the other 13% are on cabinet 58 (missing 1% is a rounding error)

What does the BT wholesale asdl checker say for your line, if it is a BT line- it should say if FTTC services are avalaible on your line, if they are you are on cabinet 58.

If their is no mention of FTTC then you are most likely on a exchange only line, their are plans by Openreach to either deploy FTTP on short exchange only lines or provide a new cab/FTTC twin on long lines- likely towards the end of the rollout so between 2013-Nov 2014 if its economically viable for Openreach to do.

We need to see the results from this check with a BT number for the property or a neighbours/local business etc

https://www.btwholesale.com/includes/adsl/main.html

Edited by deleted (Thu 11-Oct-12 16:41:52)

im with bt, rougly 45 pounds a months with firbe 100mb
also i sont know what to do now, as ive been phone bt last week and asking could i get firbe on my line and they say its not ready and will update me when they post me a letter

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but when i test speed online i get about 15mb upload 0.8mb

its not bad but its very poor when i play on my ps3 in my bedroom and always disconnect because of weak signal, which is why i move my ps3 in living room for better singal,

....15Mb download - wow!! - I don't even get 3 Mb where I am!! (More like 2.2 Mb)

hi ther got a friend who lives in hr4 9ye he gets 12mb he cant get fiber has i think he is conected to ther main exchange or he may be connected to box 91 which is not been down yet we have email openreach to see if he is comi g off the main exchange or street cab

According to FTTC Check he is connected directly to the exchange. The good news is that hopefully openreach will either choose to upgrade this line to FTTP or provide a seperate FTTC cab in the near future, from what I've heard

if bt is doing this 300 mb in spring next year will they upgrade the fttc speeds dose any one know ?

BT have three possibilities with the current FTTC rollout, none of which they can do yet:

- Use up to 30MHz frequencies, instead of the current limit of 17MHz.
This is feasible today, but needs to be agreed by a standards committee (part of Ofcom). However, they've only just gone from 8MHz to 17MHz (going to 40/10 to 80/20), so there will probably be a while of lab checks & trials before they get the go-ahead for this.

This will only benefit the houses close to the cabinet (say, within 300-400 metres or so).

- Add the G.Vector standard.
The main limitations of speed in FTTC come from crosstalk between the various subscribers, whose signals are all interfering with each other. G.Vector is an additional standard that allows the cabinets to "undo" this interference with some very clever firmware.

This feature gets speeds of almost everyone back to the theoretical best for the line distance, and makes it likely that BT could offer speeds of 100-120 Mbps at peak, and retain that within 400-500 metres.

Those are 17 MHz speeds, so adding both features may make even higher speeds available.

This is standardised, and chip companies are currently ironing out compatability issues with their implementations. See this TBB news report.

- Add bonding.
This makes use of multiple pairs in parallel.

I've seen Ericsson report speeds of 500Mbps using this, and just seen a comment that Alcatel are getting up to 1Gbps (vectored & bonded). It is still a manufacturer-led area, which I don't think has been standardised.

This relies on having spare copper out in the streets. Many houses have 2 pairs coming in from the nearest DP, but perhaps not all the way from the cabinet. It is more likely to be done on a needs-only basis for a few businesses - and even then, FTTP-on-demand might be a better solution for them.

Where will all this eventually lead? I suspect (by nothing more knowledgable than sticking my finger in the air) that speeds of 100-120 will be fairly common. 150+ will be rare.

The EU has a target, for 2020, that 50% of people will be able to get 100Mbps if they choose. It is plausible that FTTC alone could support that, and the option to get FTTP-on-demand when you're in an FTTC area will guarantee it anyway.

Cab 83 Hampton Park Road/ Old Eign Hill seems to be LIVE today!!

Great news for people on this cabinet; a few checks on nearby lines today shows that Fibre is available here!!!

Update.. I've just place my order, first available slot was 30 October!! Only another 2 weeks or so to wait, then!

Edited by deleted (Fri 12-Oct-12 09:08:55)

right, where i live now in moorfield, no one will get fibre until feb 2013 after i made a phone call yetersday sadly i will have to wait

its not bad speed, fairly some time its go p highter than 15, some time i get around 20. mostly low speed i get mostly 13mb, but still poor singal when use ps3 in the bedroom, although i live a small flat its so strange as living room is lots quicker and strong singal,

may i ask guy if telephone socket damp will this effect the speed or damages?