FrunningMan
Member
Hi,
If our housing chain does not collapse (touch wood), it looks like we will be moving house in early December. I did not think to do more than have a quick look at a general broadband speed availability checker (all good) and check what the current owners' setup is (Sky fibre, all working well).
Now that I ran out of other housing-related stuff to worry about, I checked in a bit more detail. Long story short, the (address-based) lookup on broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com shows FTTC availability as "waiting list":
Couple of questions:
Many thanks in advance!
If our housing chain does not collapse (touch wood), it looks like we will be moving house in early December. I did not think to do more than have a quick look at a general broadband speed availability checker (all good) and check what the current owners' setup is (Sky fibre, all working well).
Now that I ran out of other housing-related stuff to worry about, I checked in a bit more detail. Long story short, the (address-based) lookup on broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com shows FTTC availability as "waiting list":
Couple of questions:
- Is there any way to find out what the FTTC situation might be like in 2 months' time? Would anyone at OpenReach know and (more importantly) be able to tell me whether there are plans to expand capacity on that cabinet?
- If not, is there anything I can do ahead of the move? I've got a good link to the current owners and might well be able to find out their deactivation date. Would there be a means of placing an order/reservation at that time, before the actual moving date?
- Less likely (but worth asking): is there any way to port their current line over to myself?
- If none of the above, and I find myself without FTTC on day 1, what is my best bet to change that as soon as possible? Is there an ISP that would supply ADSL and that does actually use the FTTC wait list?
- Doing some searches on the area, there also might or might not be plans to infill FTTP availability in the Burntisland area in Fife - is there any way to find out more about this and what time scales might be?
Many thanks in advance!























