Numbers Game?

On checking BT's 'Where and when' checker with ours and some other nearby phone numbers yesterday, I found that fibre availability on our exchange had jumped eight steps in the past week: from 'We are exploring solutions' to 'We are accepting orders'. This is curious as BT is not due to complete spine fibre cabling works to the new cabinet serving the part of the village nearest us for another 2 - 3 weeks; and more curious as the checker gives us the cabinet number for the fibre service despite our distant hamlet being due FTTH (no cabinet involved) and no sign of that being completed anytime soon.

Our ISP confirms that fibre is not in fact available from the cabinet currently serving us ADSL and no orders can be accepted yet, so is the misinformation on the BT checker due to carelessness or policy?

What results do you get by putting your number into here https://www.btwholesale.com/includes/adsl/adsl.htm?s...

Without knowing a cabinet/exchange or postcode impossible to say.

NOTE: Some FTTH areas do go live as a mixture of FTTC and FTTP, and some they dump the FTTH and just FTTC in the end. Hence its down to the specifics of an area

Thanks for reply.
Exchange is Sandhurst, Kent.
The checker you suggested gives my number as:
FTTC Range A 3.7 - 1.4 &c
FTTC Range B 3.2 - 1.2
ADSL2+ up to 1
(highly fanciful, as download on common old ADSL (Zen) seldom drops below 6.3mbs)
I should have mentioned that the other half of the village may have had its cabinet enabled, but that does not alter the inaccuracy of the BT searches.

I do wonder how much annoyance and wasted effort is caused by carelessly(?) misleading people? If BT have a site which says 'We are exploring solutions" people will inevitably look for their own and maybe be persuaded to spend money on an alternative. Then for the site to still be saying the same months/years later whilst BT put in new poles, cable, manifolds, cabinets, spine fibre and the like, is beyond a joke.

Looks like your line is too long (distance from the cabinet) to get any meaningful speed from fttc. You're better off staying on ADSL.

Thanks.
But the question I was trying to ask was:
Why does BT put up so much misleading or just plain wrong information?

Where is the misleading information?

The cabinet is accepting orders, you're just too far from the cabinet to make it worthwhile you "upgrading".

You could re-read my original post.

Specifically what part?

Your ISP not offering fibre? Perhaps because the speed is too low? I know BT retail offer a service called "faster broadband" for those lines that are expected to get less than 15meg on VDSL2. Some ISP's don't offer such services.

It could also be that your chose ISP's checker hasn't scraped the Openreach/Wholesale database recently enough to show that FTTC is now available on your line.

Just an FYI, you're not served ADSL from the cabinet, the ADSL DSLAM is located in the exchange.

Edited by deleted (Sat 19-Mar-16 14:16:38)

The deviil is in the detail, and from the detail the original poster has supplied hard to give detail.

If they are on cabinet 1 then it is actually live and postcodes like TN18 5NX are too far from the cabinet to get decent speeds and are getting estimates of 0.4 to 2.3 Mbps from Openreach and we say http://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/index.php?postc...

The other cabinet is number 10, which is shown as in the Connect stage by Openreach, and is at https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.0254751,0.5686869,... and again postcodes like TN18 5PH are going to be too far away to get decent speeds.