Yeah you take your FTTP Pictures, We won't be jealous much :/

There are FTTP installs in Newport too if you know where to look. The new houses on the old Monmouthshire Bank sidings for one...

In reply to a post by AAuser27:

Yeah you take your FTTP Pictures, We won't be jealous much :/

Well like I told Ribble if it takes about another 5 - 6 Months for BTOR to come back to finish off our install, I will bake a cake with 4 candles on it
So now I need to learn to cook a cake to celebrate 4 years wait LOL.

But "hopefully" it shouldn't be that long, just to allocate engineers a time slot to blow down fibre and connect both ends.

Been about 3.5 years wait with all the fibre hardware on the pole in the pit staring at me, tormenting me every time I see it

Its a shame I don't have a HD Video Camera to record time-lapse of the install

J/k LOL

Paul

Ah yes I know it.

It's just a shame they only seem to confine it to places like that. It's almost like they think no one else is able to afford it.

I'm looking to get EoFTTC now anyway from AA. It's a good price for TTB grade FTTC

Or H & S say it is in front of a fire exit.

You are right as I think it is now :/

Keep in mind that no matter what that distance is, it adds to the D-side length to the customer's house etc, thus reducing particularly the potential Download Speeds.


In my case with the FTTC 10 Metres from my front door, the PCP about 45 Metres further on, results in the VDSL signals having to traverse 300 Metres to get to my front door - only 10 metres away.

And plenty of space alongside the PCP, as well as similar electricity supplies etc.

In reply to a post by eckiedoo:

And plenty of space alongside the PCP, as well as similar electricity supplies etc.

Remember that space underground is as important as space above ground.

Agreed, that aspect must not be overlooked.


But I happen to know that there is plenty of such space in that location, as I and my family are the very first residents on this estate absolutely; and also before that specific area was built.

Apart from grass, there are no trees, bushes even to have prevented the FTTC's location quite close to the PCP.

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The FTTC's actual location has resulted in the removal of various Traffic Signs, some being re-erected in mis-leading ways; and possibly/probably not conforming to the appropriate legislation, regulations etc, in the immediate vicinity of a double-crossing in the immediate approach to a primary school main pedestrian entrance, right on the brow of a 1:7 rise, on a blind-corner "T" junction!, with no footpath in the blind area or the opposite side - yet used by about approaching half the pupils and parents, by walking on the narrowish road in that blind area!

The horizontal of the T has several bus routes; and is also leads on to newer estates, so particularly at school times, can be surprisingly busy.

"And I am not making it up!"

Much of this can be seen on Street View, as the Google Camera Car happened to survey the area at the School's Afternoon Closing Time in April 2009 - and there are many more pupils now, particularly due to the building of another major estate.

The School Crossing Controller can be seen from the foot/approach to the blind hump, silhouetted against the sky, with children crossing.

This would/should not have occurred if the FTTC (November 2013) had been placed close to the PCP.

One aspect I'm fairly sure about (but not absolutely) is that the tie cables don't go direct from PCP to the fibre cabinet.

Instead, BTOR seem to design them to go via an underground footway chamber, or in some cases two of the chambers.

I do sometimes wonder if some odd placement choices stem from limitations in the existing chamber, and the directions that available inlets point. Or perhaps a choice of the direction that causes least disturbance to existing ducting.

If there are restrictions in the use of chamber inlets, then the current requirements for ducting to be as straight as possible with no bends will mean there is less choice for placement of the FTTC cab too.

I've noticed previously a tendency for BT to choose to put the FTTC cabinet on the opposite side of the road from the PCP. This certainly isn't true in all cases, but I've seen it in lots of places where it doesn't seem to be a strict necessity. Perhaps these happen due to similar restrictions.