In reply to a post by broadband66:

What do you mean "Oh well"?

You're one of the idiots that is endangering others.

Really? You know nothing of my relationship with this person, or about if we are in a support bubble.

I have more chance of catching this virus at work or while out shopping., than going to sort out a network for someone.
That is all I am going to say on the topic, a[part from mind your own business.

Oh yeah, just to make you even more angry, I went shopping today with another friend.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

CityFibre apparently using Hellerman Tyton as a supplier for their outside plant cabinets etc..

All the gear in the photos here is passive splice trays and connector blocks. No active gear as its all GPON and in future XGS-PON.

https://www.cityfibre.com/news/hellermanntyton-signs...

Zzoomm uses Hexatronic UK, who ever they are.

The person I spoke to said the fibre is buried 4 meters down, that is a fair depth, but that could only be where I have seen them digging, I presume they have to be pretty deep there. I asked him how long it will take to cover the whole city he said 3 years, I said I could be dead by then. He laughed.
That is a fair bit of time, but I wonder if that means the outskirts as well, he said they should be up where I am in the next 6 months or so, i still have to wait anyway.

4 metres? I doubt it - if they were digging out and laying at that depth very specialised plant would be needed.

In reply to a post by MHC:

4 metres? I doubt it - if they were digging out and laying at that depth very specialised plant would be needed.

Maybe a decimal point missing. 0.4m is more likely, even that would be good going.

For anyone that wants to know, there is some information about the Gigaclear street infrastructure at https://gc-production-s3.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/...

When fibre was laid past my house, they cut down about 120-150mm, smashed through drains, put their duct in, backfilled (not much) then 20mm of tarmac badly laid and that was it.

They won't be burying anything 4m down. The only thing 4m deep is a typical BT manhole which they may be using. The ducts between manholes are usually pretty deep, commonly over a metre in order to keep the big cables out of harms way.

The new guys are building very shoddily. Tubes are unprotected, very shallow and vulnerable to damage.

I stumbled across a typical Virgin Lightning build here at around 50mm. These tubes will be cut by anyone with an angle grinder lifting the asphalt

https://www.flickr.com/photos/curlycom/50342683387/

The box is a Genexis Hybrid Live Titanium. It has a CATV and a telephone connector neither of which I can use. I ordered the service in Feb 2013 and it first worked in April 2015. There is nothing in the menus to let the user change the telephone settings.

When I was connected neither my Cisco SPA112 or Gigaset N300IP would connect to VOIP providers, but strangely CsipSimple pn my mobile would work. A clever person from Voipfone was able to get the SPA112 to connect after I gave him remote access. He changed some obscure setting. I also complained to Gigaclear. A lady there changed the router remotely and ever after that the N300IP has worked.

I also don't see anything about the box I have on the Genexis.eu website. I suspect that they may have changed their product range.

The cabinets is full of cards each of which has several fibre cables going to it. It took someone a week to attach the tails to the incoming fibre cables. I remember a trench being dug for the incoming power supply. On the side of the box there is a little window so that the electricity meter can be seen and read. I was told that the box is connected to an upstream box by 6 fibres.

The person I spoke to said the fibre is buried 4 meters down,

Really ? Sounds like twaddle to me. Buried so deep two average people stood on each other’s shoulders wouldn’t appear out of the trench ???? It seems ridiculous.

Edited by Zarjaz (Thu 04-Feb-21 16:55:00)