the CBT optical box was installed outside my house over 6 mounths ago but on openreach web site it says not avalible yet but my neighbour across the road witch is fed from a different CBT has had a full fibre connection installed and working for over a mounth. when i spoke to BT and told them this and shurley if theres is active surley mine is to. I was told we look on the same open reach site as you and if it says no you will just have to wait untill it says yes and to keep checking . i have now been checking for the last 3 mounths and it still says no. but over this time i have spoken to an open reach enginner who was installing a connection in one of my over neigbours and told him my problem and he said that it was a bit odd as he new there is a CBT outside my house and the install of tthe connections / CBTs in my aera is all complete so was very suprised that it wasnt avalible yet .
So my Question is how do i get openreach to check if the CBT is active so i can get FTTP installed .
Can anyone HELP me thanks.
Is there anything at all that is out of the ordinary about your address ?
if you use this checker , if your address doesn’t appear as you expect , is there one that ‘may’ be your address , just in a different format to the one you would recognise and use , FWIW it should appear as it does on theRoyal Mail website
https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL/AddressHome
No the is nothing different or special about my address. Just a normal house number. But should not matter as all you can enter is your postcode and the you get a list of all the addresses in that post code and you select your address. But this is what makes my problem even more strange. Because I live in a cold de sack of 44 houses and I have checked all of them on open reach website and 1 to 28 and the last house 44 are NOT available but 29 to 43 is available and at least 5 of them have had it installed in the last two months.
Use this checker, select the address tab . When posting remove your address but include the notes at the bottom.
OK , you didn’t make it clear that is wasn’t just your house , your original post suggests it’s just your address, when there are many neighbours in the same position as you.
It can be the case in underground service areas , where ducting between joint boxes in the footpath is unserviceable, a CBT or several CBT’s in a jointbox or joint boxes, designed to service the properties opposite , can’t be ‘cabled’ back to the splitter because of these defective ducts , whereas jointboxes outside other properties in the same street can be cabled back to the splitter node because the duct route for those CBT cables is OK .
In less financially restrictive times , the ‘cost’ of excavation and repair or replacement of the unusable ducts would have been accepted , and the work done immediately to get those properties ready for service, but OR is no more immune from cost restrictions than anyone else and these days it’s more likely that the CBT or CBT’s that can’t be cabled back to the splitter without the expense to repair or provide new ductwork, are simply postponed until budget allows , therefore the designated properties aligned with those CBT’s can’t order FTTP when other properties in the same street whose CBTs were cabled back to the splitter can order service.
FTTP installers work for an Openreach division called SD (service delivery ) a separate division to the network build engineers who work for FND (fibre network delivery) so SD are unlikely to know why some addresses in any area are good to go and very near neighbours are not .
You can fill in this formwize and ask OR to check , there is a part that asks ‘ my neighbour can get FTTP but I can’t ‘ , OR will check and get back to you pretty quickly.
https://www.openreach.com/forms/fibre-broadband-availability---customer-form
i have filled in the form so we will see what they come back with but i cant see it being a blocked duct as trooli have used the same ducts and my next door neighbour has trooli