What does this mean from BT Wholesale checker?

I have been waiting for FTTC to become available on our cabinet. The BT checker used to say available from 30th Dec, then 30th March.

The checker now says the following, but I can't interpret what it means, does it mean FTTC is available or not?

Your cabinet is planned to have WBC FTTC by 30th June 2012. Our test also indicates that your line currently supports a fibre technology with an estimated WBC FTTC Broadband where consumers have received downstream line speed of 900Kbps and upstream line speed of 900Kbps.

Many thanks..

It means they plan to have it ready by end of June- though that may change.

WBC FTTC is just the name of the BT Wholesale product. The low estimates indicate a long distance from the cabinet, reality will be faster than that, generally faster than any ADSL2+ you are on now (unless cabinet is on pavement outside the main telephone exchange)

But 900Kb/s? Surely no ISP will connect an FTTC service at such a speed?

The speed checker may be wrong, of course!

What is your current line speed and do you know how far you are from the street CAN?

Afraid I can't help with a straight answer, but the occurrence of numbers like that indicates either it is about to go live or has been dropped from the schedule. Best just to check daily.

Have you established your cabinet by asking here, and gone out and found it?

As MrSaffron says, the dates just automatically slip a quarter at a time, a few days before the end of the quarter, until the last few days before going live, when anything can happen. Several of us have found it disappear altogether for a couple of days, then come back with the current date at the time.

Thanks for the reply,

It is this bit that i don't understand

Our test also indicates that your line currently supports a fibre technology that

Tried to get enabled 9 months ago, did not get any signal, a BT engineer said that the line length was 9.7km so wasting his time trying. Some neighbours do get an unreliable service.

About 1.2miles to the cabinet, all but last 300yards overhead. there is a nice shiny new cabinet by the old one.

I hope that it might support 8M

In reply to a post by TimJ:

Tried to get enabled 9 months ago ...

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That makes nonsense of your opening post. If the cabinet isn't live yet, then you couldn't have tried to get a connection 9 months ago, and the engineer wouldn't even have tried to get a signal.

Though how the ordering systems allowed dispatch of an engineer to a line where the cabinet was not enabled is puzzling.

if the poster does not mind supplying a postcode, people may be able to look at the FTTC history for the area.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

That makes nonsense of your opening post. If the cabinet isn't live yet, then you couldn't have tried to get a connection 9 months ago

OP means he tried to get ADSL earlier and failed cuz of distance. He was answering request for current stats.

In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

OP means he tried to get ADSL earlier and failed cuz of distance. He was answering request for current stats.

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Where does he say he failed to get ADSL, and where was he asked for stats?

Roberto, have you woken up yet, today:

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Where does he say he failed to get ADSL, and where was he asked for stats?

In reply to a post by greenglide:

What is your current line speed

& in reply to greenglide:

In reply to a post by TimJ:

Tried to get enabled 9 months ago, did not get any signal,

+ commonsense!

In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

Roberto, have you woken up yet, today:

Apparently not

... + commonsense!

Ah, an ingredient that also seems to be asleep here at the moment.

In reply to a post by TimJ:

Thanks for the reply,

It is this bit that i don't understand

Our test also indicates that your line currently supports a fibre technology that

I think it means that your cabinet has been upgraded (hence your line) but your exchange is not accepting orders. Mine was saying that for a while.

In reply to a post by Andrue:

In reply to a post by TimJ:

Thanks for the reply,

It is this bit that i don't understand

Our test also indicates that your line currently supports a fibre technology that

I think it means that your cabinet has been upgraded (hence your line) but your exchange is not accepting orders. Mine was saying that for a while.

My line says the same despite the fact that the exchange isnt enabled and tho work has been done on the CAB!

They obviously get confused between the RFS date of the CAB (30th June at present) and the line which they think you can get fibre without the CAB being ready! The also state that other people have got "up to 40 / 10 Mbps" which is difficult as neither the exchange nor the CAB is ready!!!!!

Idiots!

Another possibility is that your cabinets fibre is actually linking back to a different exchange

In reply to a post by Andrue:

In reply to a post by TimJ:

Our test also indicates that your line currently supports a fibre technology that.

I think it means that your cabinet has been upgraded (hence your line) but your exchange is not accepting orders. Mine was saying that for a while.

I think it could equally mean just that your current line is made of copper and is suitable to connecting to a fibre cab. Note the use of the words "currently supports"

as a pre-qualification system it tells you the estimated capability ahead of service being available - the postcode checker used to do the same. Quite handy to know what speed may be coming.