I know nothing about whether the keys are different, all I know is that the planned upgrade last Friday failed because the BT engineer did not have a key. This could be because not all engineers have keys to FTTC cabinets or because each cabinet's key is unique. The guy who jumpered my connection this morning told me that he was given a key last Friday, however he wasn't the guy who failed to connect me that day..

39 Hdd's.....does your house need any heating....try https://www.duckdns.org/ for a freeby.

Ian

39 Hdd's.....does your house need any heating

Not much. Some of the boxes are only on for short periods to backup systems with the four Synology boxes (23 HDDs) running 2pm-3am. I tend only to have the one PC running 24/7 however that's got quite a few somewhat elderly drives plus an SSD. I should probably swap out its drives for one or two higher capacity but lower consumption drives.

Thanks for the duckdns.org link.

MM

Early this morning, I saw one of BT's private contractors working on one of the black cabinets and the green one too.

He confirmed the work involved was fibre broadband. But since this is the first job...what exactly would he be doing. He wasn't installing the fibre cables though?

Rather curious what the first step to fibre is involved.

Thanks

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The black cabinets as far as I know is for TFL, like for the cameras, traffic lights etc.

We had one of our black cabinets worked on a while ago.

Is your black cabinet like this one ?

If so its owned by TFL and is for the cameras.

Paul

In reply to a post by PaulKirby:

The black cabinets as far as I know is for TFL, like for the cameras, traffic lights etc.

We had one of our black cabinets worked on a while ago.

Is your black cabinet like this one ?

If so its owned by TFL and is for the cameras.

Paul

Hi Paul,

Nope, that doesn't look anything like my cabinet. All the black cabinets in my area are black and numbered. And mine is 28. Plus I know where the cabinet is for the TFL and it's far away. From where I live

Rather curious what the first step to fibre is involved

A site survey usually

Luckily they finished that survey now, and it's on the connect box on the open reach site

In reply to a post by cjdavid:

All the black cabinets in my area are black and numbered.

BT's cabinets tend to be green, not black. Exceptions happen when required for conservation areas, so it depends where "my area" is.

Aren't all black cabinets black?