Paul,

We're so close to exchange it's not surprising it's an exchange only line.

Incidentally, the DSL Checker advertises Annex M as being avilable but seemingly not according to BT wholesale?

Any way to push them on this or otherise?

CHRIS

Yeah, its the same for my address.
ADSL 2+M (ITU G.992.5 Annex M) is the same as ADSL 2+ (ITU G.992.5) but with faster upload.
Normal ADSL 2+ can have an up to 1.4Mbits upload speed where as ADSL 2+M can have up to 3.3Mbits upload speed.

If we don't ever get Fibre I am hoping for ADSL2++ (ADSL4) up to 52Mbits down and up to 5Mbits up, this is still currently in development as far as I know.

As for you being close to your exchange I say your about 502m (as birds eye view) close to it

Paul

Post deleted by MrSaffron

At least your probably going to get fibre before us due to you being under a BDUK funding.

Seems that BTOR are concentrating on the BDUK installs over the commercial install hence the halt on our fibre install along with 12,000 other homes on our exchange which is on the same fibre rollout as us.

We are part of the 66% commercial rollout that started back in 2011 that was halted in mid install to possibly complete all the BDUK contracts first, what's worse is I can see the fibre enclosure (i.e. black bottle) along with the black tubing with yellow stripe on it on the top of the pole, just no fibre blown in, where as 5 houses down they can get FTTP, and it also doesn't help being on the outer edges of our exchange coverage (about 3.5km) so we get very slow speeds.

Granted we are not the worst, there are 27% of GB slower than us, so I cannot really moan.

Paul

Humph!

Still not hold my breath though!

Incidentally, I tried to get Annex M as a stop gap and was given an emphatic No, despite the fact the BT Wholesale DSL Checker says that it is available.

Only explanation from BT Wholesale is that they don't supply it!!

CHRIS

In reply to a post by CHRISNWUK:

Humph!

Still not hold my breath though!

Same, been waiting since 2011 when our last ISP invited us to beta their fibre product, BTOR starting the install and was also told by them another 2 to 3 weeks for it to be completed, now over 3 years later still no fibre LOL.

The thing that I think is wrong was the way BTOR went about it, our last ISP sent several emails and phoned them several times to get an answer why the work had stopped and they just got fobbed off and ignored.

Our last ISP should of contacted "Don't Get Done Get Dom" LOL

At least where your under the BDUK fund you have a chance, We cannot get BDUK funding due to being part of Greater London (supported by the commercial rollout)

I say just wait until end of March and then see.

In reply to a post by CHRISNWUK:

Incidentally, I tried to get Annex M as a stop gap and was given an emphatic No, despite the fact the BT Wholesale DSL Checker says that it is available.

Only explanation from BT Wholesale is that they don't supply it!!

Oh they do supply the WBC ADSL 2+ Annex M option, but you need to be a business customer for that.
Check this out Can't get ADSL 2+ Annex-M Broadband hope that helps.

Paul

Edited by PaulKirby (Mon 02-Feb-15 16:04:53)

PAUL,

I am a Business Customer and still no Annex M!!

CHRIS

Oh, well I don't know then.

Strange that when I was on the phone with them a while ago when I was complaining about being put on ADSL Max when I order ADSL2+, I went through all options that was available to me from their DSL Checker and I was also told that Annex M was only available to Business Customers.

I guess it depends on who you talk to, or maybe they no longer sell that product.
If your with BT, have you tried posting this question on their site?

Paul

Of course maybe the trick is to talk to a different provider on the Annex M rather than BT Business.

This is true.

Paul