Which exchange?

My exchange is EMETWLL (Etwall, Derbyshire).

Looking at the patterns of villages covered then I think you're likely to be an ideal for FTTC, even if its just 2 or 3 cabinets that get done (Hilton looks like a perfect candidate)

From your earlier post in the thread I thought exactly the same about Hilton. Unfortunately that's not where I am; I'm in Egginton which is nearer the exchange but less populous, though big enough to have a primary school of its own. Still, it's encouraging to hear that it need not be entirely outside the realms of possibility for FTTC to come our way. I'd happily pay for a better broadband connection if only there was an economic way for someone to sell it me!

Egginton would be fairly good as well, but the coverage map from Samknows wasn't clear as to whether its covered by that or another exchange

interesting, I will see if I can get that info, so low number of cabinets long distance from exchange with high user density is the best scenario.

yes, replacing large numbers of e-side copper connections is the goal, if they could sort out the software issues with the MSAN and do native VoIP on the hardware they would be even happier

But if lunarjetman puts his phone number into samknows shouldn't that accurately confirm his exchange?

Yes, if you look at http://www.samknows.com/broadband/mapping/mapping.php?ecode=EMETWLL then it appears that Egginton is possibly served by Etwell OR Repton using a telephone number is the only real way to know for sure

Sorry, I should have been clearer, I'm definitely on EMETWLL. Last time I checked on samknows it gave me a straight line distance of about 3.4km to the exchange, which if you look at the map is pretty much in reality as straight a line as you could hope to get following that road out of Egginton up to the centre of Etwall where the exchange is (which I've located out of curiosity before).

Edited by lunarjetman (Thu 08-Jan-09 14:10:41)