As you may know if you read this blog post, I recently moved house and in doing so lost my FTTC connection and had to go back to a rather slow ADSL connection, slow as in less than 1Mb. I usually had 37Mb down with FTTC so you can imagine my annoyance.
One of the reasons I am more annoyed is that I am still on the same (enabled) exchange and we only moved less than half a mile down the road.
I am in the process of asking BT when I can expect the cabinet I am connected to, will be upgraded to FTTC, or even if it is possible to upgrade it to FTTC.
It seems surprisingly difficult to find out which specific cabinet I am connected to. From a postcode search of 2011 data it would appear that there is an 85% chance I am connected to a cabinet that isn’t part of the FTTC upgrade plan and may not even be able to be upgraded.
Using the BT checker (retail and wholesale) the answer is categorically that I can only have really slow ADSL.
Using SamKnows seems to indicate a yes to FTTC!
However as we took our phone number with us when we removed, I have a suspicion that they may be using old data.
I have put a support request into BT and am hoping for an answer on Monday. You never know I might be on fibre faster than I could hope, or (more likely) find out that I can never have fibre.
ADSL isn’t cutting it, I need more bandwidth. So if I can’t get fibre what options do I have for fast broadband then?
Hi James,
We can have fibre here in September (apparently), which will be a great boon to modern life. I sympathise with your predicament as I know how much we all need fast, efficient Internet these days.
Mine died completely last week and it was the Openreach man that told me about the upcoming fibre .. I could have kissed him (I didn’t).
I recently wrote about my experiences without connectivity in Spain and how it would seem that Maslow’s theory of human needs is ready for an update. link here I hope
🙂
David