THAD and the TH means its part of the district BT calls Thamesway - not that it is in a place called Thamesway

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2474409,-0.7605007...

Believe this is the fibre cabinet that serves PCP 76 on THAD exchange

Based on pavement tarmac I believe cab 76 is served by the fibre cab I linked to, and the beaten up green cab might be a Virgin Media one (hard to tell with the graffiti/posters)

In reply to a post by gt94sss2:

Cab 76 in Aldershot.

Since the PCP only has 170 odd lines, you are going to be looking for a small DSAM - unlikely to be the one outside the job centre assuming the PCP next to that is active

How old are the pictures on Google Maps? - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/14C+Arthur+St,+A...

That's the link I gave Bob. If you look top left of the google page it says nov15 when images taken.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

THAD and the TH means its part of the district BT calls Thamesway - not that it is in a place called Thamesway

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2474409,-0.7605007...

Believe this is the fibre cabinet that serves PCP 76 on THAD exchange

Ah, that makes sense then so my PCP which is further down the road is linked to this Fibre cab. As you say the grafitti makes it hard to know what the accompanying PCP esq cabinet has written on it.

VM cabs usually have their numbers on an endplate, not the front like the BT ones.

However the double manhole cover looks to me like BT. I can't see what the letters in the middle of the covers are. If so I very much doubt if it's a VM one.

I think it is a Virgin Media cabinet, there are no other BT cabinets that I expect to see in that road.

After all that, I know Aldershot well, my Mum lives in Cargate Ave, and I have worked Aldershot patch quite a fair bit over the years. Just didn't recognise the short code.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

After all that, I know Aldershot well, my Mum lives in Cargate Ave, and I have worked Aldershot patch quite a fair bit over the years. Just didn't recognise the short code.

Small World

Thanks for all the feedback guys, it's much appreciated - I will double check today to see if BT haven't sneaked any FTTC Cabinet into the vicinity or if for some strange reason I've been blind to it.

Edited by Vorlon (Thu 09-Jun-16 10:32:50)

On a tecnical note - a question.

When a home has a FTTC active connection and an active landline do the voice signals take the route back via the fibre too (after the copper bit) or do they take their original route back via the PCP's and copper lines to the exchange?

Voice will head back to the telephone exchange as normal for now (a product where this does not happen is on the way).

Having looked at the area, there is no reason for another fibre cab to be in that area other than to serve cabinet 76, and if you trace the tarmac you can see power feed and also copper link to existing cabinet.