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Author Topic: BT Broadband Availability checkers  (Read 2695 times)

waltergmw

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BT Broadband Availability checkers
« on: March 17, 2012, 08:22:31 PM »

Gentlefolk,

Ewhurst is supposed to be getting the promised four FTTC cabinets available by 31 st March.
However only one FTTC has been physically installed so it might just be ready if a fibre tube with blown fibre or a fibre cable can pulled into the village and jointed.

We observe both the wholesale and retail checkers have changed as, until early March, they previously both said no fibre was planned.
They are now both give false information as BT can hardly say they have a planned date (where they might offer a service) before they have even submitted planning permission for the conservation area involved.

On the same very long line line the Retail checker

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displayTopic.do?topicId=25795

doesn't offer a fibre service but the Total Broadband speed from the exchange is exceedingly optimistic as the next door house only achieves an ADSL2 download sync speed of 304 Kbps i.e. probably yielding a BRAS of 268 Kbps.

The wholesale checker

https://www.btwholesale.com/includes/adsl/main.html

does offer a ridiculous fibre service ** at 100 Kbps even though they too offer the same Total Broadband speed, presumably because they must offer services to all ISPs on a FTTC enabled PCP ?

Kind regards,
Walter

**  EDIT  PS I fail to understand why the wholesale checker provides such an answer when the (hopefully eventually) new FTTC is installed. That will take 4 km off the line length from the exchange but we (and BT) know there is a buried cable fault on the remaining 3 km route. Even though they provide a decidedly mediocre ADSL2 service now, it seems that BT are too shy, nor want to spend the money, on commissioning such VDSL lines. Can anybody else tell me how removing 4 km line length can reduce a 304 Kbps ADSL service down to a 100 Kbps VDSL one ?

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Re: BT Broadband Availability checkers
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2012, 11:13:47 PM »

  ^-^  Big sigh.

On behalf of all Ewhurstians, b*cat beams evil thoughts at the BT Group, its directors and shareholders.  >:D
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