One more question re cabinet side pods.

I was never able to provide a photo of the cabinet that started all this off.
Today I found an identical cab elsewhere

https://tinyurl.com/68a5y4r2

The side pods are very different and I would be very interested in a view as to what they both are used for.

Both are ventilated implying electrical equipment inside.

One answer for the question that doesn't go away. Your old Google street view picture shows
Cabinet 3 on PONTYCYMER exchange which is now G.Fast enabled and almost certainly has been for some time, so that's one of the pods accounted for. The other one could be an FTTC expansion but you will probably not accept that based on your previous comments.

Edit This thread seemed to go off topic and I may have missed Witchunt's post on the 7th Jul about Cab 3 being G.Fast, I reckon the OP missed it as well

Edited by Realalemadrid (Fri 29-Jul-22 10:38:57)

Post deleted by adslmax

The OP has linked to streetviews of pcp 3,4,5 and 8 so far

This is where the OP previously made an incorrect assumption on the 6th July ... .after the demise of G-Fast roll outs ( paused in 2019 ) and as far as I know, it was never available in the valley anyway, the BT availability checker does not show any G-Fast on this cabinet. (3)

From the various cabinets that have been displayed there is a lot of G.fast in the valley.

6th July

Not missed.

I first reported, "at least one of the cabs in the valley has two pods fitted they are both of a slightly different design, the left a surface door on the outside with extra vents, ( pod as in the street view the another cab ) as against the right one where the whole panel opens with small vents."

Very interesting chat to two MJ Quinn engineers in front of this open cab. https://tinyurl.com/68a5y4r2
Turned out to be a tutor and apprentice.

The right pod contains a G.fast Dslam.
The left pod contains punch downs multi core connected directly to the other pod.

Why is the left pod vented unlike the main cab.
New PCP's punch downs will now all be vented.

Why do they not put G.fast pods onto Vdsl cabs.
As the G.fast range is limited to those ideally under 300 meters of copper, the pod on the Vdsl would be subject to two additional lengths of the link cable between it and the PCP, which could be up to 50 meters away, thus excluding some potential users.

He thought that BT/OR has underestimated the amount of take-up there would be.

I think it might have been TBB news who reported that a large number of G-fast users had opted for less than max speeds.

Can't find a search option there so can't confirm.

It might have been kitz.

Thanks to all contributors for learned views.

Open Small G-fast pod here.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2019/09/openre...

The left side extension also contains splitters which can be damaged or cause issues if condensation is allowed to build up and cause corrosion of the contacts.

Could you please describe what a splitter is ?

Separates the VDSL and the exchange based signals interfering

It must be Groundhog day, this thread keeps going round. So you have given us an example of a cabinet with a G.Fast pod with added cable connection pod, these pods are not recent additions to the PCP cabinet.

What about the cabs that you noticed in your opening post ... the newest additions are very noticeable due to the brightness of the paint.? Do you think these are all G.Fast cabinets now?

These cabinets may not have the same configuration as the one you have shown, if they actually have recently added pods they will not be to do with G.Fast, so still unexplained. Could they perhaps be be additional FTTC DSLAMS to increase capacity as suggested right at the start of your thread?

My second post in the thread explained why these expansion pods are not put on the FTTC cabinets whether for additional FTTC lines or more crtically to give shorter lines for G.Fast, so nothing new there.

The take up of G.Fast has been pretty low as it only benefits customers very close to the cabinet. Openreach have decided it's not worth bothering with and many ISPs don't sell it.