Interesting. For my address it states, "Ultrafast full fibre broadband up to 1000mbps - Build planned between now and Dec-22"

No sign of any FTTP build near here. The old btwholesale line checker says, "The exchange is not in a current fibre priority programme."

Something not right with this.

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

Anyone else find it interesting the coverage is 43%, but about 90% of forum users seem to have it available or planned?

I think you may be basing that on active forum members as when you look through posts there are probably only a few dozen regularly posting and a chunk of those have paid for FTTPod

Edited by deleted (Wed 16-Nov-22 09:46:22)

In reply to a post by zebb_edi:

Yes that's exactly what it says. The slower 'Superfast' is suitable for streaming HD.

Pretty useless if they aren't considering speeds at all. Especially since the standard ADSL is waaaay over estimated than what I ever got.

The checker is in trial at the moment.
Currently the Standard broadband shows 24Mb/s for everyone, regardless of how long the line is.
You can't buy ADSL (standard Broadband) without a PSTN voice service, which is why it isn't recommended for VOIP/Digital Voice.

The "slower" Superfast broadband is almost never slower. It's just that those results are accurate for your property.

I'm sure before this checker goes fully live the Standard Broadband figures will show an accurate result instead of 24Mb/s for everyone, removing the confusion you suggest.

Edited by j0hn83 (Wed 16-Nov-22 14:20:58)

In reply to a post by Chardonbleu:

Interesting. For my address it states, "Ultrafast full fibre broadband up to 1000mbps - Build planned between now and Dec-22"

No sign of any FTTP build near here. The old btwholesale line checker says, "The exchange is not in a current fibre priority programme."

Something not right with this.

A bit more specific than we get here - all we see is "Build planned between now and Dec-2026". Given that the rest of our area is live and it's only 3 poles in our street that Openreach left out back in the summer, I'd hope it's before 2026. Anyway, at least we have CityFibre live here and so far Giganet have been great.

Edited by Stargazer99 (Wed 16-Nov-22 17:05:46)

Kind of the opposite of my result

This new checker says "Build not announced"

Yet this map https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/where-when... shows "To be built between April 2021 and December 2026"

The rollout plan PDF also says by December 2026

I also have 'Build not announced', which is at odds with the following:

1. The current 'production' availability checker on OR's website, which has my address in scope
2. The availability map, which has my postcode in scope for completion by 2024
3. Information provided by OR fibre enquiries in March stating the build for my address would start in September of this year (I haven't seen anything but that doesn't preclude it, of course)

So either the data in the trial checker is bad for my address or I've been descoped within the last 6 months or so. Hoping for the former!

When i tried it on the 15th, it said anytime between now and 2026, and I was doing some checking today on the BT site to be nosy, and it said I could get ultrafast fibre, I thought something was wrong. So I checked on plusnet and it said the same thing. So I just had another check on this new open reach checker and yes, ultrafast fibre is available to me, so that have happened in the last 3 days,.

so I expect I will be getting the emails from Plusnet now to update to this ultrafast fibre. They can ask once, I don't have a problem, but as long as they don't keep emailing me about it.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

so I expect I will be getting the emails from Plusnet now to update to this ultrafast fibre. They can ask once, I don't have a problem, but as long as they don't keep emailing me about it.

We don't have a problem either, as long as you don't keep posting to this list about it.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

I was doing some checking today on the BT site to be nosy, and it said I could get ultrafast fibre, I thought something was wrong. So I checked on plusnet and it said the same thing. So I just had another check on this new open reach checker and yes, ultrafast fibre is available to me, so that have happened in the last 3 days,.

so I expect I will be getting the emails from Plusnet now to update to this ultrafast fibre. They can ask once, I don't have a problem, but as long as they don't keep emailing me about it.

Any chance you and Max could switch properties as it would be a perfect match.

In reply to a post by dect:

Any chance you and Max could switch properties as it would be a perfect match.

No chance! But I will swap his property if his area are excellent range of 5G indoor (EE network)