Our wholesale broadband checker now supports address based checking. This is ideal if you don’t have a BT phone line but want to receive an accurate result! Address level resolution data is available for all BT Wholesale based ADSL services, BT Wholesale SDSL and Virgin Media cable services.
The Availability Checker API has been updated to [...]

This boxing day sees the release of a much needed new mapping engine on the site. The new system offers a whole host of new features that many of you will hopefully find useful. These include:

Dynamic browsing of the map – Exchanges will now load automatically as you browse around the UK, no matter how [...]

Yesterday saw the launch of Simplifydigital, a new digital services advice company. They aim to take the complexity out of choosing broadband, TV and phone services by tailoring a package to suit your individual needs. Whilst there are parallels between Simplifdigital and online comparison sites, Simplifydigital are breaking the mould by offering impartial advice [...]

Firstly, apologies for the lack of visible updates as of late. I’ve recently started a new job and have been working horrifically long hours! Rest assured that ISP data is still being updated in the background, so your exchange pages should be right up to date. With that said I’ll move on to a few [...]

As you may have already noticed, the website has undergone a makeover. The old look had been there for four years now, so we decided to have a bit of a change. We have tried to keep a similar feel to the site, and hope that both new and existing users find the updated layout [...]

Two changes have been made to the availability checker today. Firstly, AOL LLU data has now been fully incorporated in to the checker (and the rest of the site). The checker will now report whether or not AOL has unbundled your exchange. Similarly, you can view this information on your exchange page as well.
Sadly, the [...]

I’ve added a couple of new LLU providers to the listings today – Lumison (a business ISP based operating in Scotland) and WB Internet. I’ve also updated the Carphone Warehouse / TalkTalk data en-mass, thanks to an update provided by the company themselves. In an effort to help out users of the site who are [...]

Many of you have reported to me that the Bulldog data on the site is not truly reflective of what the Bulldog residential checker displays. This is because we take a feed from their wholesale checker, and whilst you might expect the information to tally closely, in quite a few cases it does not.
For this [...]

The various API’s provided on the Samknows.com website allow end users and companies to incorporate some of our functionality in to their site completely transparently. One such API is the Availability Checker API. This allows you to query availability for all the providers we contain on the website using either a phone number or postcode. [...]

As many of you have noticed already, we have added email notifications and RSS feeds for exchange updates. Therefore as soon as we notice that the status of your exchange has changed (e.g. an LLU provider has unbundled it or moved a date), then you will be notified. Keep in mind that we do not [...]

If you haven’t noticed, the map section has been updated. With so much press about LLU and the current state of broadband it is sometimes hard to remember how rapidly the face of broadband in the UK has changed. From 1999 till the present day the change in the amount of exchanges enabled for ADSL [...]

A much needed update of the Availability Checker has finally been completed. This adds support for ADSL Max, Be, Wanadoo, Zen, Edge and also improved data for Now wireless services. There are also a few other additions that will be completed over the coming weeks.
The updated checker builds directly on top of a new Availability [...]

We’ve received an update on the rollout of ADSL Max today, and can report the following figures:a
Max enabled exchanges: 75
Exchanges with “Green” enablement dates: 3376
Exchanges with “Amber” enablement dates: 1857
Exchanges with “Red” enablement dates: 44
Exchanges not due to be updated (“Black”): 239
Green exchanges can be treated as very likely meet their target date. Amber exchanges [...]

Following recent requests, I’ve added an RSS feed for the news published on this website. This will allow you to read our news using an RSS news aggregator such as Mozilla Thunderbird. I have to admit that it’s something I’ve personally managed to avoid for the past few years, but have recently tried it and [...]

UK Villages Online, a popular website that provides local information about communities throughout the UK, has very kindly donated the samknows.co.uk domain name to us. This should remove the confusion that some users have experienced when trying to access the .co.uk variant of this site. A personal thanks goes out to Rupert at UKVillages for [...]

As some of you have noticed already, I have added data pertaining to BT’s upcoming ADSL Max product, which offers up to 8Mbps downstream over your existing ADSL hardware. I’m currently listing 53 enabled exchange, 5247 with a RFS date and 151 with no planned roll-out date yet. Please keep in mind that the RFS [...]

The maps section has been updated with a whole host of new and updated maps detailing broadband rollout across the UK. This update has been facilitated by a new backend mapping engine that was created by a new addition to the team, Ian. This allows us to create fully customised maps based upon live data [...]

My sincere apologies for the extended absence. I’ve updated most of the ADSL, SDSL and LLU data last week, but still have Bulldog data to update. Be data is now in the database, but not yet published online. I’ll get to this soon.
For those people (mostly businesses in fact) that use the XML checker interfaces [...]

A few people commented that they would prefer the extension to redirect to this website as opposed to a different website, so it has been updated to work with the availability checker script here, as well as a few other little bugs being ironed out.
The new extension can be found here. Don’t forget to remove [...]

As many have already noticed, we have a new team member on board – Andy Dixon. Andy’s got a solid background in the telecoms and computing industry and works with broadband related matters on a daily basis. Andy is also a skilled developer and has good experience with PHP and MySQL – the foundations of [...]