In reply to a post by Jax2:

Well I am not going to argue with them on that score, just happy they are not going to charge any extra!

Indeed! Being able to order FTTP at all is a rare enough position to be in right now let alone having an apparently subsidised install!

Not entirely sure where subsidy starts to apply. In my case all I need is some branches cut on my next door neighbours trees and a single 200-250 metre run of cable over three fairly close together poles up their drive and across my garden so an overhead feed to the CSP. The engineers had it down as a mornings work after coming up from London then had a second job booked for the afternoon before finishing for the day at 4.30 then back to London. The neighbours have ordered too so it is a shared cost for Openreach.

The real extra expense is all the wasted visits from engineers (four engineers so far each in their own van up from London) and the tree surgeons who have also come many miles and hours of travel over two trips then only cut two branches leaving several more trees to do. Basically nothing accomplished yet.
The next door neighbours have also had aborted engineer visits including the second internal install engineer being sent out before anything else has been done.
The guy up the road will incur extra charges if he goes ahead but as I indicated in previous posts there is a lot of work to do in his case.
Apparantly the reason we are getting FTTP is that for the large and very diverse area supplied by my cabinet FTTP is the cheapest option. I had resigned myself that with the distance to the cabinet I would never get fibre at all so am delighted with the fact that I can order FTTP but just a bit frustrated with the progress of the order.

It looks thinner than that - really no more than household electrical flex:

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will host elsewhere

Edited by deleted (Mon 31-Aug-15 18:31:30)

What is that site you are using? I have tried your first two links. First, with the first one my IS Suite gave me a warning, then I ended up swamped with adverts, and the second gave me a pseudo-sexy pouting girl twiddling her hair .

uploaded.net

legit file hosting site

I'll delete the links and host elsewhere

sorry

http://www.hegedus.co.uk/pics/IMG_3236.jpg

http://www.hegedus.co.uk/pics/IMG_3246.jpg

http://www.hegedus.co.uk/pics/IMG_3251.jpg

That is fibre tubing, just less mini tubes inside it, so just tubing no actual fibre in it yet

Thanks.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

That is fibre tubing, just less mini tubes inside it, so just tubing no actual fibre in it yet

That looks like the thickness of the fibre that they use to daisy chain between Fibre DP's

Paul

I was wondering if the smaller tube was rubberised and expanded to accommodate the mini-tubes.