In reply to a post by j314:

Thanks Zarjaz, so three visits (survey, stage1, stage2) for an FTTP install is normal I assume.

It kinda depends, there are a fair few different combinations, so no real hard and fast rules.

Whereabouts in the country are you ?

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

It kinda depends, there are a fair few different combinations, so no real hard and fast rules.

Whereabouts in the country are you ?

Okay, appreciated... I should probably stop worrying about it and just wait to see what happens

I'm in southern Scotland, somewhat rural.

Here is a rather unhelpful picture of a blown fibre type manifold, but with it's matching lid removed ........ I have some pics of the connectorised blocks close up, but they are not on that page yet.



Southern Scotland .... a tad too far for me to be picking up your job then. n

Five years old but http://www.coolwebhome.co.uk/fibre-cornwall/images/f... a manifold up a pole.

A quick update... the stage2 was today, but it didn't go particularly well.

First, the engineer accidentally put a staple straight through the fibre in two separate places. He went ahead with the splice and light test anyway, and said the reading was OK (I think it was 11dB, unsure). Should I be worried about this impacting the speed/future failures or will it be fine as long it's within the overall budget? Do I need to insist they re-run it?

I'm surprised there was a signal at all to be honest, I would have thought a staple through the glass would be game over for fibre.

Second, upon finding a blinking PON light, he had to call up and was told I was on the wrong port (I think that was the term used). Apparently another engineer needs to come out and do work at the splitter or manifold to fix that. Does this happen often and could anyone say how long they will likely take?

The glass strand is thinner than a staple, actual fibre is more like thickness of a hair, so may have gone through the outer layers of protection and missed the glass strand. So as long as the glass was not nicked should be fine.

The eng really shouldn�t have left the cable he stapled ... I suspect it hasn�t hit the fibre itself, that would straight break it.

Sadly a flashing PON light due to the wrong SASA tray in the splitter is a fairly frequent issue at the moment .. they�ve some newly trained staff doing these stage 1 jobs ... it�s like they don�t fully understand the whole product end to end.

The installer/stage 2 guy should have arranged for an ID eng to come resolve the SASA issue. Unlikely to happen this weekend, Monday hopefully.

Agree there, but I prefer to use cleats, slower but less chance of percussive damage.

Thanks Zarjaz (and MrSaffron). Hopefully the fibre itself was missed and won't suddenly break at some later point. I'll leave another update when that SASA issue is fixed.

One other thing (sorry for the incessant questions): Has this connector been terminated correctly?

https://i.imgur.com/UEkLmlk.png

The gap of a few mm between the topmost green part and the white part "feels" wrong to me, and googling "SC/APC" suggests that it should be flush.

In reply to a post by j314:

One other thing (sorry for the incessant questions): Has this connector been terminated correctly?

https://i.imgur.com/UEkLmlk.png

That looks a bit weird, this is how mine is connected:

http://www.imageupload.co.uk/image/DsX2

I'm sure Zarjaz will know better.