I've just run the broadband line checker on some addresses between us and the cabinet and they're showing as having fibre optic broadband available.
I'm beginning to wonder if maybe we're connected to a different cabinet to the one I thought we were.
My very clever wife made an astute observation...
Those addresses up the road that I checked are on a CT2 postcode. We're on a CT5 postcode. We're actually closer to the exchange that serves the rest of CT5, but for historical reasons, we're connected to the one that serves CT2.
According to Samknows, which checks your line according to which cabinet you're connected to, we do have fibre.
Unfortunately, BT's line checker is based on postcode alone, and according to their system, no one in CT5 is connected to fibre yet.
Several long and very trying phone calls later...
It turns out Sky aren't offering fibre broadband from our cabinet yet anyway - BT customers get first dibs, then they make it available to other ISPs later.
I think this means we
could get fibre broadband if we switched back to BT, and if we could get through to someone at BT who actually understood the way their stupid fucking sytem actually works rather than just reading a script off a screen.
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