Ok, so a few weeks ago a new cabinet went up in our rural village, which is 100m from the house as opposed to 1000m for the one we were on, it is an employee fibre broadband package.
So i checked the available checker and it showed we had been moved to the new cabinet (Num 4) great thinks i, should be able to get proper high speed now rather the 20meg i get now.
My wife ordered the fibre plus through her work and it went active with promises of between 60-80 meg down and 17-20 up, fantastic, they emailed and said it had gone live with the low speed guarentee.
The speeds never materialised so i called faults, they agreed there was an issue and sent an engineer into the area who reported fault fixed....Nope speed check proved not.
More calls, long frustrating calls to various people, eventually another engineer (openreach) was sent today to sort the problem, he came and told my wife that our broadband was not on cabinet 4 (100m away) but still on cabinet 1 (1000m away), he told us to contact BT and tell them to raise an order with openreach to move us to cabinet 4 as the tests say we already are.
An hour long call to Brett in Newcastle who contacted various people and then comes back to say sorry we cant do that......really, you cant raise an order to move us to the nearer cabinet to give us the speeds you promised in your contract with us. I was then told we can reduce your broadband cost to compensate, sorry said i you cant get lower than zero as its employee.
There has to be a way to get this sorted and move us onto cabinet 4 to get the speeds as promised, if i didnt have a phone line and placed an order for one they would come and cable to the nearest cabinet (4) not all the way to (1).
Help please as i am losing the plot now, this is the DSL checker info
Cheers Paul
| BT BROADBAND AVAILABILITY CHECKER |
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Telephone Number 01847 ****** on Exchange REAY is served by Cabinet 4
Featured ProductsDownstream Line Rate(Mbps)Upstream Line Rate(Mbps)Downstream Handback Threshold(Mbps)WBC FTTC Availability DateWBC SOGEA Availability DateLeft in Jumper High Low High Low ADSL ProductsDownstream Line Rate(Mbps)Upstream Line Rate(Mbps)Downstream Range(Mbps)Availability Date
Left in JumperObserved SpeedsVDSLOther Offerings
Availability Date
Premise environmentStatus
| VDSL Range A (Clean) | 80 | 67 | 20 | 19 | 60 | Available | Available | -- | |
| VDSL Range B (Impacted) | 80 | 61.9 | 20 | 19 | 55 | Available | Available | -- | |
| WBC ADSL 2+ | Up to 8 | -- | 5.5 to 12.5 | Available | -- | -- | |
| WBC ADSL 2+ Annex M | Up to 8 | Up to 1 | 5.5 to 12.5 | Available | -- | -- | |
| WBC Fixed Rate | 2 | -- | -- | Available | -- | -- | |
| Max Observed Downstream Speed (Mbps) | 23.66 | | | | | |
| Max Upstream Observed Speed (Mbps) | 1.13 | | | | | |
| Observed Date | 2019-04-26 | | | | | |
| VDSL Multicast | -- | -- | -- | Available | -- | -- | |
| ADSL Multicast | -- | -- | -- | Available | -- | -- | |
| Bridge Tap | N | | | | | | |
| VRI | N | | | | | | |
| NTEFaceplate | N | | | | | | |
| Last Test Date | 15-05-2019 | | | | |
