In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Its not alignment with BT Wholesale, but a willingness to buy reasonable capacity from the various networks to cover all the UK. PlusNet does charge a bit more in areas like yours.

Yes, well said. I'm sure someone like Zen would be good in this instance also?

There's definitely some exchanges where you just couldn't fit 21CN equipment in there. As small as it is. Some exchanges are basically just large sheds. To be fair in exchanges that are physically full it requires BT to be creative about their use of land, you could add a small shed onto some existing ones and put the rack in there but then you would generally need planning permission etc.

Edited by deleted (Mon 29-Aug-16 11:01:52)

Thanks for that. I had quite run out of eggs to suck.

Disagreeing is one thing .... (I think you may be wrong about 20CN backhaul, and both BT Wholesale ADSL2+ and FTTC do suffer from congestion problems).

Re the Post Offce, I have said an awful lot about that . I would still like to see more about the router. For instance, the higher speeds the OP sometimes gets may not be unrelated to having it switched off for a while. I get the feeling that it may be starting at 3Mbps+, which is still poor, then slowing down after a while. We haven't had a factory reset yet.

Switching ISP will if course almost certainly involve a new router. Making that redundant.

In reply to a post by TheEulerID:

that there were still a small minority of small exchanges (perhaps 5%) where there were no firm plans.

I think it is better thought of as a small minority of lines (or subscribers). Around 94-95% do indeed have access to 21CN, and 20CN is indeed being retired as 21CN WBC reaches more exchanges. That retirement isn't complete, but the intention is certainly to get rid of 20CN wherever 21CN touches.

Unfortunately, while the number of 20CN-only lines is relatively few, the number of exchanges is comparatively large: some 1900 exchanges out of 5500, just over a third, have only the choice of 20CN.

In places where there is no room to add a 21CN DSLAM, BT are starting to trial a process where migrations are forced: a 20CN DSLAM will be removed and a 21CN DSLAM put in place, all in one night.