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The BT Wholesale Broadband Availability Checker tells you the exchange that your phone line is connected to and the cabinet, but it does not tell you the exchange that the fibre(s) from your cabinet go to.
Should it tell you this information?
Michael Chare
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Why do you need to know the headend exchange?
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See what ISPs such as Sky and Talk Talk have equipment there.
Michael Chare
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Register (or login) on our website and you will not see this ad.
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If you can order from them, they have. Simple.
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Try samknows, that has all the info you need
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Try samknows, that has all the info you need SamKnows does not tell me the exchange that has the equipment that the fibres from a cabinet are connected to.
Michael Chare
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Openreach have spreadsheets with that info. They were leaked two or three times as updates occurred in the early days of FTTC rollout. Several of us probably still have them, but they are now years out of date.
Each source of the leaks seemed to disappear. Openreach clearly did not want the information public. Whether the leakers lost their jobs or not I have no idea.
It is understandable that if OR don't want some of the data public that it doesn't appear on the BT Wholesale speed estimates site.
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Connection - AAISP Home::1 80/20. 200GB. Sync 75808/13984Kbps @ 600m. BQMs - IPv4 & IPv6 |
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Openreach doesn't publish who has what, where.
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Hi Michael,
Interesting question. I take it you are connected to an exchange that serves a relatively small number of properties?
I would guess the fibre would go to the tier 1 exchange serving your exchange.
Would you be able to order from the tier 1 exchange if you knew it? Other than if you were to pay the construction costs.
What I mean is, as far as I know if you use the automated order systems. You can only order what shows as available on the checker at your exchange, not the exchange the the fibre is routed to.
Do you know another way? Please share.
Brian
Info :-
Line: Length 875m metres to cabinet
Modem router:HG612 bridged to HomeHub 5 B
IP Profile = Down 49.19 Mbps Up 20 Mbps
Now: BT infinity 1 FTTC SyncDown: 53138kbps SyncUp: 8120
2017: BT infinity 1 FTTC SyncDown: 54999SyncUp: 8608
2015: BT infinity 1 FTTC SyncDown: 40000kbps SyncUp: 9278
2013: BT Broadband ADSLMax 8Mbp Down: 6.79 Mbps Up: 0.36Mbps
2007: Newnet ADSLMax 8Mbp Down: 5986 kbps Up: 376 kbps
2005: Freedom2Surf ADSL Down: 5143 kbps Up: 374 kbps
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Interesting question. I take it you are connected to an exchange that serves a relatively small number of properties? Yes
I would guess the fibre would go to the tier 1 exchange serving your exchange.
I am told it goes to an exchange some way away.
Would you be able to order from the tier 1 exchange if you knew it? Other than if you were to pay the construction costs.
What I mean is, as far as I know if you use the automated order systems. You can only order what shows as available on the checker at your exchange, not the exchange the the fibre is routed to.
Do you know another way? Please share. In general I can only place an order with an ISP who says they will supply a particular service on my line.
Michael Chare
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Openreach doesn't publish who has what, where.
Why do you think they don't do this? I presume that their customers, the ISPs, must know this information. Competitive information is often sited as an excuse for non disclosure but how would a competitor gain from knowing a cable route?
Michael Chare
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I don't really follow what you're tying to say here.
Why should PlusNet know what equipment Sky has in an exchange? What value (other than a commercial advantage) is it to them?
If you're a business ordering from your supplier, would you allow that supplier to tell all your competitors what you're buying?
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I don't really follow what you're tying to say here. I was trying to say that an ISP such as Plusnet would know what exchange the fibre from a cabinet goes to.
Michael Chare
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In general I can only place an order with an ISP who says they will supply a particular service on my line. I find the same situation with anything I buy of any kind from any vendor  .
My broadband basic info/help site - www.robertos.me.uk. Domains, site and mail hosting - Tsohost.
Connection - AAISP Home::1 80/20. 200GB. Sync 75808/13984Kbps @ 600m. BQMs - IPv4 & IPv6
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But they already know this from the parent/child mapping spreadsheets.
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