I'm not "hinting" anything, as a hint means the hinter knows .

Shall we say when I looked to move from Plusnet FTTC, having before them been on IDNet FTTC, I had seen sufficient disquieting posts by people with problems, but not like yours, to rule Zen out. Problems that I had seen sorted by other ISPs.

As you seem to be the only person I recall ever to have a problem with that checker except when it is down for many at the same time, it is either something specific to your setup, or something in Zen's network blocking as you wondered earlier. Not necessarily deliberately by them, but maybe an unintended consequence of something else they have in their system. I accept you think you have shown it isn't a block by them, but I'm not familiar with TOR so I have no idea if that is proof or not.

Edited by RobertoS (Fri 28-Apr-17 11:31:42)

Just a thought - Try Opera and use the built in VPN as a test...?

The site I think uses javascript for various elements and I know some people like to run with that disabled, and the screenshots look almost as if javascript is turned off.

Sadly - I tested it from a few other Zen connections to quash the speculation - and it works from other locations.

It looks like some issue with Java(script) in a number of locations.

After keeping an eye on the OpenReach "Accepting Orders" list at https://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/products/super... I noticed that this week WSLOD had changed status and was now accepting FTTP On Demand orders!!

However I checked with FluidOne and they've said that Openreach say we're too far from the node (bank K) to get the product

I was wondering does anyone know if it's possible to find out where our node is, to see if there's perhaps been a mistake here?

The reason I ask is that given the location of our property and the exchange, if we're 8km+ from the node, the entire village and every property in it would seem likely to be 8km+ from it as well as it must be up the valley somewhere and we're at that side of the village....

The exchange itself is only 4km (following the road, less in a straight line) from us, so I'm guessing it's not there.

seems odd they'd list an exchange as being open to FTTPoD if all the properties are too far away to get service, so I'm hoping perhaps a mistake has been made somewhere...

In reply to a post by raesene:

However I checked with FluidOne and they've said that Openreach say we're too far from the node (bank K) to get the product

I was wondering does anyone know if it's possible to find out where our node is, to see if there's perhaps been a mistake here?

Ask an Openreach Engineer when out & about? But Openreach are likely to have got the estimate right...

Edited by deleted (Fri 05-May-17 20:08:35)

Are on cabinet 2 that isn't RFS yet? That maybe the issue as the node is not that far from cabinet 2 and 3

Thanks for that!

Yep we're on Cab 2 (which is still waiting for its power connection from what I've heard)

So if the node is near cabs 2 and 3, we should be pretty close in (thinking about it, I can guess where they've put it as there's a point where the lines to those two cabs split)

I'll go to FluidOne and suggest that they check another nearby number to confirm that it's available and then maybe a manual check will indicate that we're near enough in for a survey.

You may need to wait until cab 2 is activated. Not sure though.

I would say for sure you will need to wait for cabinet 2 to be live