Cyberprog
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This has apparently totally mushed Virgin Media's network in the area...
pettsy
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Was about to post the same pic 
JD450A
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That'll be a million pound f up
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Jimoz
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can they re join fibre? they were putting it in near my old place with no ducting, apparently cheaper to repair breaks than put the whole lot in ducting
JD450A
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Yes and No, depends on type... If it's the big cables I don't think they can. Service cables can be spliced.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
and the REST!!!
Think I've said before somewhere ... had to recover an overturned truck once ... very close to a telecom junction box ..... had more telecom guys than plods milling about, telling me what i could/couldn't do and where with the crane .... damages to box would've run at millions .. an hour !!!
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Komatsu
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That’s right, big cables in ducts.
Quattromike
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The telephone exchange is right next to our yard, there is vans coming and going day and night to it. God knows what they do when there, occasionally there's half a dozen there at once. My old man was speaking to one of them a few years back as we had a big tree on our side that towers above and hangs over the telephone exchange building quite a bit, my old man was testing them to see if they would trim it back to look a bit less precarious. He was told there's no way any of them would touch it and if a branch came down and damaged the roof they would have To hire in a portable switch board station from Glasgow at £52k an hour from as soon as it left Glasgow. They would then most likely seek damages from the responsible party. Needless to say we chopped the whole tree down shortly after that 
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Brendan
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If you can, put it in a duct - it's always handy.
You can rejoin/bodge together the cable that comes through a property as it just tends to be a kind of coax and normal telephone wires.
I'm sure they repair for free on your boundary as they put as little effort as possible into installing them to save costs
TiltyShaun
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We have fibre into our house. It is like a nylon fishing line. Can be spliced. Can’t remember what the main cabinet looked like other than hundreds of the small lines tagged up on a board.
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fred
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You have real fibre optic, lucky sod! Most everyone else gets copper as BT only run the fibre line to the green street cabs.
fibre optic lines have infinite capacity in theory I was told .
TiltyShaun
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Very lucky as we used to have the worst BT broadband possible. We are classed as the hard to reach properties. So several years ago when BT handed back the government some of the extra money they got from a better take up of the super fast broadband the government gave some other companies contracts to take fibre direct to the hard to reach properties. The idea being that they won’t be doing it again so make it future proof.
We pay for the 300meg speed which is download as well as upload. Can pay for 1000meg if you want too!!
Left hooker
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They do fiber over head on poles now I have it down in Cornwall
But I've never seen them laying or pulling fiber to the main cabinets so fiber must still connect to copper ??
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fred
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Most everyone outside of a city gets FTTC where BT put a fibre line to the the green street cab (most already had them anyway as its cheaper to put a single fibre rather than a bunch of copper pairs to add capacity) and you use the existing copper wire to your house.
www.pack-net.co.uk
This is why your neighbour may get 60mb and you get 20mb as your copper line isnt as 'good'. I had this at a site where I just kept ordering new phone lines until I got a decent speed then cancelled all the crap ones. The BT man was not well pleased when I told him the reason he was stringing new copper on the poles, I did say I gave BT 12 months previous to sort out the existing but they couldnt be bothered.
What is FTTC? - Fibre to the Cabinet
FTTC is a connectivity technology that is based on a combination of fibre optic cable and copper cable.
www.pack-net.co.uk
This is why your neighbour may get 60mb and you get 20mb as your copper line isnt as 'good'. I had this at a site where I just kept ordering new phone lines until I got a decent speed then cancelled all the crap ones. The BT man was not well pleased when I told him the reason he was stringing new copper on the poles, I did say I gave BT 12 months previous to sort out the existing but they couldnt be bothered.
JD450A
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A subsidy of WPD does the pole fibre. Supernet I think there called or something similar.
Edit - surf telecoms
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Brendan
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We are just changing from virgin to sky. Our current speed is around 200mbs and that is just a copper coax cable, sky will be around 50mbs so this will be interesting to see how we get on
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
I dream of anything over 1.8 - 2.0 mbs .. we too are well distant from our exchange ..... that said, i am told that there is fibre up our way and beyond ... local telecom guy, who used to work for me, told me he can't even get it so we have no chance ..... and it'd be copper to the house anyway
Josh has fibre in Plymouth with over 20mbs and I believe fibre into the house
..... and it'd be copper to the house anyway Josh has fibre in Plymouth with over 20mbs and I believe fibre into the house
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Brendan
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Open reach guy was out today, it's fibre to the exchange then just standard wiring to the house, although there is three exchanges within .3m from the house (100-200m as the crow flies)I dream of anything over 1.8 - 2.0 mbs .. we too are well distant from our exchange ..... that said, i am told that there is fibre up our way and beyond ... local telecom guy, who used to work for me, told me he can't even get it so we have no chance
Josh has fibre in Plymouth with over 20mbs and I believe fibre into the house
Left hooker
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Just speed checked ours done through phone wifi to router
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