Line stats, any good?

Came back home this morning to see the nice shiny silver lock on the front of the cab, so I guessed my fibre had been provisioned this morning. These are the stats from the sr102, I'll leave playing around with hg612 until my "training period" is over with

Connection Speed 39998 kbps 9999 kbps
Line Attenuation 13.0 dB 0.0 dB
Noise Margin 32.3 dB 31.31 dB

Not familiar enough with fibre yet to know if these are any good lol

Edited by deleted (Wed 04-Jun-14 12:32:40)

Edited by deleted (Wed 04-Jun-14 13:04:33)

Sorry, yes I'm on sky's 40/10 product
I did consider the pro version but after being stuck on slow speeds for so long I thought 40 would be enough improvement for now lol

Thanks, I'd realise did synced at max speed but I haven't got a clue if the noise and attenuation figures are any good. I knew what to expect from ADSL but FTTC is a completely different beast

In reply to a post by wolf359:

Came back home this morning to see the nice shiny silver lock on the front of the cab, so I guessed my fibre had been provisioned this morning. These are the stats from the sr102, I'll leave playing around with hg612 until my "training period" is over with

Connection Speed 39998 kbps 9999 kbps
Line Attenuation 13.0 dB 0.0 dB
Noise Margin 32.3 dB 31.31 dB

Not familiar enough with fibre yet to know if these are any good lol

What is this silver lock that you speak of? Can't say I have noticed anything other than the standard circular locks on cabinets. Is is like a padlock or something?

I am waiting for my cabinet to be activated and and some kind of sign would be good!

People have been saying that when the cab is finished a silver lock is put on them, I hadn't noticed any of these around here either, just the normal utility cabinet type locks.
my cab went AO about 10 days ago and it looks like I'm the first to get it provisioned and when I passed it this morning there was a new silver lock in the very centre of the cabinet, you can't miss them as they're very distinctive

Thanks, i'll look out for a silver lock appearing!

Most of us have to admit that silver locks are actually grey hairs.

No additional locks on any cabs round London - a lot of which have been live for a long time now.

If you can take a photo.

No probs I'll take a pic tomorrow

here's the type of lock they're using around here
on this particular cab it wasn't placed until the first order was provisioned

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21425028/cablock...

The lock doesn't matter (in my experience) as my cabinet had one 2 months before it went live

They are usually black and now seem to be fitted when the is commissioned, sometimes at least

No idea lol, it's just that people on here associate the placing of the lock with the cab being finished, and it my case it certainly wasn't placed until the first order was provisioned

The fabled silver lock appeared on my cabinet some time today

The cabinet still isn't accepting orders, but hopefully this is a sign that it is now imminent.

After the silver lock appearing yesterday, during the night my cabinet's FTTC status has changed from not available to available on 31-Dec-14

Edited by troublegum (Sat 07-Jun-14 06:39:55)

Despite the last post, the cabinet is now accepting orders

Looks like there could be some merit in the silver lock after all!

The people who provision lines at a subscriber's house will not have any access to the FTTC cabinet; AFAIK they are two separate pools of engineers - or certainly used to be. When FTTC is installed, the engineer only makes changes (involving the tie cables) in the PCP cabinet.

Provision of the new lock might well be one of the steps of on-site commissioning that goes on before a cabinet goes live, but I have to admit that in 4 years of watching this rollout, I haven't seen a single silver lock.

When I drove through Battle in East Sussex the other day I noticed all the cabs had silver locks on them that weren't there when they were being stood.

All I can say is that in the case of my cabinet it had a lock that was exactly the same green as the rest of the cabinet at around 9 am on the morning I was activated, and when I returned later that morning it had been replaced by a silver one & my line was now active. The other fttc cabs in the area still have the green lock and none are yet active