Those joints have a couple of splice trays, not the full 32 you get in a real splitter


What you trying to describe is what is largely happening with the Fibre First roll-out, but still plenty of people who have bits of spine fibre passing them and still cannot order as the splitters and manifolds need adding.

The picture you link to shows one cable in and two coming out ....

In reply to a post by slimj:

if fibre is being provided to one location, then surely addresses passed could also be provided with the provision to connect?

I've read numerous posts over the last year where people have said the same thing about having fibre going passed their property on poles but they are unhappy they ain't able to order FTTP. It probably happens more than people realise as sometimes its in ducting under the ground and people are unaware. Every project has to be estimated and if every project grew from 10's of properties to 1000's of properties just because the fibre is passing them nothing would get done.

I feel your pain especially if you've got poor broadband but everyone will get better broadband in due course.

Edited by deleted (Wed 22-Jan-20 15:01:08)

Joint ahead of two manifolds if I recall. This is a picture I took and not the actual joint at the posters location.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

This is a picture I took

Thought I recognised it, wasn't it from your great piece on Lingfield?

Yeah - and looks like a variety of blocked ducts are due to be cleared. Must pop back and see what happened to the port with its dust cover open, and another bit of fibre running outside the animal protection on another pole.

Ah OK , the poster hadn�t made that bit clear.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Yeah - and looks like a variety of blocked ducts are due to be cleared. Must pop back and see what happened to the port with its dust cover open, and another bit of fibre running outside the animal protection on another pole.

Was hoping to see the hardened protective plastic wrap for fibre aerial cables that go through trees (you described in the article) starting to be used but checked a couple of very recent infrastructure installs through trees and sadly no sign yet. Maybe the message hasn't got through to all sub-contractors.

Edited by deleted (Wed 22-Jan-20 17:11:49)

In reply to a post by dect:

In reply to a post by slimj:

if fibre is being provided to one location, then surely addresses passed could also be provided with the provision to connect?

I've read numerous posts over the last year where people have said the same thing about having fibre going passed their property on poles but they are unhappy they ain't able to order FTTP. It probably happens more than people realise as sometimes its in ducting under the ground and people are unaware. Every project has to be estimated and if every project grew from 10's of properties to 1000's of properties just because the fibre is passing them nothing would get done.

I feel your pain especially if you've got poor broadband but everyone will get better broadband in due course.

Our village was a BDUK project, originally the cabinet between two villages was fibre enabled, those at one end of village could get 'superfast', we couldn't even get the upcoming USO. Last year fibre was put up the ducts to our end of village and now it appears the houses originally getting 'superfast' still only get FTTC, but our end of village get FTTP, as all the fibre is in ducts until it gets to pole I guess many don't know they have been passed.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

Ah OK , the poster hadn�t made that bit clear.

Sorry, I was just showing an image of what was on our pole. Andrews piece for this was useful!

Thanks for your comments folks. Don't get me wrong, while I generally understand why they perhaps haven't enabled us to connect as they want to ensure an area is provided with more than a 2mb DSL connection first, it's frustrating to see them pass us by meaning it's probably likely we will not be upgraded for another 5+ years... it seemed like the opportunity to get it done so to speak!