BT Wholesale Checker

Ardua · Jul 07, 2011, 14:18:41

I have just checked my phone number on the BT Wholesale Checker website. Can I take this statement to mean what it states: that is, my line is on a cabinet that WILL be upgraded to FTTC?

Your cabinet is planned to have WBC FTTC by 31st December 2011. Our test also indicates that your line currently supports a fibre technology with an estimated WBC FTTC Broadband where consumers have received downstream line speed of 36.9Mbps and upstream line speed of 8.2Mbps.

What does the second sentence mean?

I think that my ADSL2+ line must know that something is afoot as over the past 4 months my downstream SNR has fallen from 15 to 9 (with no effect on upstream SNR), and my IP has increased from 8000 to 12608 with a surprising fall in the error rate. I can only conclude that something is going on in my local exchange.

Glenn · Jul 07, 2011, 14:23:24

It means your cabinet will be enabled, I believe, and looking at those figures it's quite close by.

Ardua · Jul 07, 2011, 15:50:01

Thanks Glenn. I think that I know where my present BT cabinet is (about 100M away) but no sign yet of any OR vans or new FTTC cabinets appearing over the horizon.

MisterW · Jul 07, 2011, 17:48:56

QuoteOur test also indicates that your line currently supports a fibre technology with an estimated WBC FTTC Broadband where consumers have received downstream line speed of 36.9Mbps and upstream line speed of 8.2Mbps.

I would have taken that as meaning you can get Fibre now and that your cabinet has been done early.

Ted · Jul 07, 2011, 18:54:28

Quote from: Ardua on Jul 07, 2011, 14:18:41
What does the second sentence mean?

It means you're a lucky sod!

Ardua · Jul 07, 2011, 19:42:59

Quote from: Ted on Jul 07, 2011, 18:54:28
It means you're a lucky sod!

I wish I was. All the websites still give a RFS date of 31 December - hence my confusion about the second sentence on the BT Wholesale website. There seems to be a FTTC supply but no way of accessing it until the cabinet has been enabled.

Ted · Jul 07, 2011, 21:22:54

Quote from: Ardua on Jul 07, 2011, 19:42:59
I wish I was. All the websites still give a RFS date of 31 December - hence my confusion about the second sentence on the BT Wholesale website. There seems to be a FTTC supply but no way of accessing it until the cabinet has been enabled.

I live in Wales where the carrier pigeon has just been superceded by the pony express. Next year they're talking about an upgrade to morse code, so all is not lost.

SSK · Jul 08, 2011, 10:13:58

Quote from: Ted on Jul 07, 2011, 21:22:54
I live in Wales where the carrier pigeon has just been superceded by the pony express. Next year they're talking about an upgrade to morse code, so all is not lost.

From carrier pigeon to pony might be considered a downgrade - although the pony has a higher bandwidth allowance, the sych rate and throughput speed will be a lot lower. Also, the costs of a pony are considerably greater.

I think you should consider re-grading to pigeon.

Sean

Steve · Jul 08, 2011, 11:01:41

At least one shits on the floor and not on your head.