FTTC Availability Checker

Hi all,

I live in Cornwall and currently enjoy a FTTC broadband service. Two
of my neighbours have asked me to assist them in upgrading to it from
ADSL but, to my surprise, the various checkers all indicate it's not
available to them. We all share the same postcode, exchange and green
cabinet. Is there a scenario where it's available to some but not
others?

My number: 01579 350948 (PL12 6RJ)
Neighbour1: 01579 350526 (PL12 6RJ)
Neighbour2: 01579 350322 (PL12 6RJ)

Steve

 

There doesn't seem to be a lot of rationality. The farmer who lives
directly opposite our village's new FTTC enabled green box cannot get
FTTC because and I quote "he lives on the wrong side of the road".
His farmhouse is about 30m from the new box.

Perhaps someone with installer knowledge can enlighten us?

Any runs longer than from the box 1200m are not worth doing.

 

Thanks Martin, I'm about 50 Metres from the box and my neighbours very
slightly further. Out cables all come off the same pole so there's not
much difference in the distance.

 

That being the case, it has to be a capacity/connection issue otherwise
there is no logic to it.

FTTC is avaialble to me but at half the speed of my ADSL so i haven't
bothered with it.

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You're right, it is a capacity issue (at the exchange). Someone helpful
at Samknows pointed me to:
http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/

I show as able to get Superfast because I've already got it. Hence no
extra load on the exchange. If only the checkers made that clearer.
The Cornwall Superfast checker just says they live in the 5% of Cornwall
that will never get it.

 

I had the same curious situation here in Cambridgeshire, new box enabled
10 March, confirmed by checker. A week or so later, on point of
ordering, I ran checker again - no FTTC. I contacted "Connecting
Cambridgeshire" who are funding the rollout, they said "that's odd
.....we will prod Openreach and find out"

The next day I ran the checker and it was all back again. Placed an
order that day. I saw an Openreach van by the box between the 2 checks,
so maybe a temporary fault. I wonder if the checker runs off a database
or real time, and if the former how often it is updated?

I suggest you try again in a day or two, and/or contact
superfastcornwall.org - they are funding the rural installation and if
they are anything like their Cambridge counterparts they are very helpful.

I've just seen the later post suggesting a capacity issue. If that is
the case, they should get on to superfast Cornwall and say you have had
buckets full of public money (central Govt. and county council) to do
this so why not enough capacity.

 

Superfast what does it imply? ( to me a lot more than my 30 Mb)

Your above checker says I'm in a fibre area now. Is that what they
think Superfast?
Maximum is 30 Mb that I can have.
They charge it as up to 76 Mb if one is daft enough, I pay for up to 38
Mb as both prices are same speed of 30 Mb.

So if this is Superfast what will the future 100 mb be called by them?
Regards
David

 

My area is one of the:
"Enabled area Your area is enabled for Superfast Fibre but your
cabinet is not ready yet so you can't place an order today. It is in
our plans to be upgraded and we update this info weekly, so please
check back later. "

Nothing has change physically since they installed the cabinets last
year, so this is just a load of hogwash. The only part that's right is
that I can't place an order today (or tomorrow, or the following day,
etc etc.).

 

I know someone who had the same problem. Eventually it just turned out
to be a mistake.

-- Richard

 

I'm at 1300m and I still get over double the old ADSL speed down (and
about double the up speed too).

 

And Suffolk Broadband says "by 2015 September", a full year after BT's
original date.

 

Supercalifragilisticexpialidociousfast.

Rod.

 

As BT call 76 "Infinity", the next one surely must be "And Beyond"

 

superfast is defined as faster than 24Mbps by BDUK.

 

You are indeed fortunate in that case.

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Most of the graphs of VDSL2 vs ADSL 2+ I've seen show VDSL to be as
fast as ADSL even at long distances, so if you are connected to a
cabinet you are likely to see an improvement with FTTC just because
the distance is less, even though VDSL may be no better than ADSL at
that distance.

-- Richard

 

Most of the graphs of VDSL2 vs ADSL 2+ I've seen show VDSL to be as fast
as ADSL even at long distances, so if you are connected to a cabinet you
are likely to see an improvement with FTTC just because the distance is
less, even though VDSL may be no better than ADSL at that distance.[/QUOTE]

Of course. The win is in the rest of the run to the exchange (about
another 4000m).

The really annoying thing is that this is a terrace of three, and I'm in
the middle house. Next door is on a different (much nearer) cabinet.

 

And if it's run out of capacity that quickly, then surely any subsidy
must have been fraudulently obtained, because that exchange/cabinet
clearly IS commercially viable.

 

Why not pay for their broadband (or split the cost between you), and
chuck a cable over the fence/through the wall?

 

It's a rather 'interesting' household....