Your 2rd pic tells me thats contractors work as them T keys (the yellow one) have been banned for years. Last time i asked i was told its a no no even with a managers risk assessment and you must find a alternative solution.

No wonder contractors are cheaper when they can play by other rules.

I did wonder how those "keys" worked. It does look like an old joint box from the laymen's eyes..

Yes, all the work that has been done here over the years has been by contractors. Remember that this particular work was carried out in September 2016. We got excited anticipating high speed broadband back then only to find nothing happened until they came back last year and upgraded all the now obsolete equipment and connection types. We are still waiting!

Picture 1 is a copper DP.

Picture 2 is a blown fibre node, possibly a splitter.

Picture 4 & 5 show, amongst other things, fibre CBT’s (connectorised blick terminal)

Picture 6 is pole mounted fibre DP node.

Many thanks for all your help. I will continue to hope that in spite of their denials, Openreach does plan to do something, sometime to deliver FTTP to our community.

Can see the postcodes going live getting closer

the open reach website has been known to say "we have no plans to upgrade" and then it happens and you then can order.

Have you tried other postcodes that you now know have cbts in the OR checker?

Sorry, I missed that question earlier. Yes, there are some post codes on our exchange that can order FTTP but it is a rural exchange (100% EO) that covers a large area. There are about 30 properties on my own post code that all get the same message.

For years we have been shown as "in scope" under the Scottish Government's DSSB programme and suddenly just after the exchange (Madderty) was showing officially as fibre enabled on the Scotland Superfast web page our message changed to "no plans".

It has been suggested that the money pot ran empty as this particular programme was due to end and its successor R100 not yet started. Either that or they hit a blockage that was classified as "too hard" to sort at that time.

There is a duct in the grass verge all the way from the exchange to outside my house that carries the copper service now (about 2.5Km). The duct stops just about at my house which is why there is fibre on several poles beyond my house covering the rest of the community.

Can anyone explain what the creep preventers actually do (other than prevent creep obviously)?

I keep seeing them and wondered in they were a form of strain relief.

Cheers

In reply to a post by MaryHinge:

Can anyone explain what the creep preventers actually do (other than prevent creep obviously)?

I keep seeing them and wondered in they were a form of strain relief.

Cheers

I think the fibre is coiled up round them as a tension thing rather than pulling on the fibre cables and pulling out the connectors.

I bit like how the copper line is wrapped up round that metal rod / spike at the top of the poles.

Paul