Fibre has just been laid near my home.

Hey folks.

Today there were road workers laying fibre along side the road in the grass verge past my house. The village near me is getting fibre broadband but i'm guessing we'll have to wait for a solution to the long line problem. I've snapped a couple of pictures of what's happened outside my house. Wondering if you guys could tell me with the little info i'm giving whats going on.

There are 2 fibre cables poking out the ground (assuming they will be connected to one another)
https://i.imgur.com/UWQqPD2.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/wBet0fc.jpg

There is also a box looking thing with a couple of foundation blocks around it.
https://i.imgur.com/cXzVEUy.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/LqqPZv3.jpg

There is a few spots marked in blue paint, including the man hole cover where the underground copper cable connects to the pole to my house.
https://i.imgur.com/G3eA1Rq.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/XbCPU23.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/UjiGsM7.jpg (underground copper cable connecting to pole)

Am i just wishful thinking that its a possibility of my family getting fibre broadband? Or is this just simply a point in the fibre run where two cables are spliced together and we're just being skipped over.

Oh the thought of high speed broadband being metres away kills me.

Thanks
Michael.

Whose 'fibre' is it? I see some green tubing and pavement chamber components but none of it looks like Openreach stuff

The last picture appears to show a �JB23� type lid .... not used by any other service provider AFAIK

Hi MrSaffron.

According to Roadworkscotland.org it is openreach. Didn't see any openreach vans or workers. They were using a specialised tractor attachment to dig and place the fibre. Openreach have just installed a green cabinet in the village the fibre is running too, i'm assuming that's where its heading.

Was peaking on a small screen so hard to fully recognise

Green tube suggests someones fibre anyway will be going down it at some point

Okay so mole plough probably yes the smaller duct than Openreach normally has

If village has a VDSL2 cabinet appearing then will need fibre, and that would not normally include the breakouts for FTTP

Most Openreach FTTP areas give an idea of it being on the way on https://www.homeandbusiness.openreach.co.uk/fibre-br... and there is a fair bit across Scotland but main focus is still on VDSL2 cabinets

I like the sound of that. "normally include the breakouts for FTTP" I won't take it as gospel but will leave me hopeful. The checker still shows the usual but i shall be patient. Time will tell.

Thanks again.
Michael

NOTE I SAID

"and that would not normally include the breakouts for FTTP"

There will be joints where fibre is spliced together which may explain the periodic chambers, but that is it.

Oh yes, so you did. My wishful thinking (Stupidity) skipped that part. My bad.

Thank you
Michael.

i had to check what I typed too as when typing quick I have a tendency to miss the odd word out

As you can probably tell, i do that with reading

Finished product just in case anyone was interested.

https://i.imgur.com/GGjgTDZ.jpg

Whether we can tap into whatever is happening under that cover, we will see. Let's hope so. Have a feeling its a simple access port where workers can access the cable if it gets damaged. Oh well..

Thanks
Michael.

If you are someone who hopes for winning the lottery but never actually plays than continue your hope

Otherwise I'd say no hope and this is just a couple of fibres to serve a VDSL2 cabinet

I'm a pessimist at heart. No clue why i use the word hope. As you continue reading you can see my pessimism growing. It'll be a manhole for exactly what i think it's for.

More waiting then it looks.

Regards
Michael.

Isn't it annoying how it's so hard to find out, as a customer, exactly what the plans are. I had to resort to trying to catch the OpenReach engineers yesterday at Bakestonedale to see if I could get some contract details but I missed them.

Shouldn't that be "potential" customer since we are talking here about a possible new service? I'm not saying that Openreach shouldn't perhaps make their plans more visible but the same can be said of many other companies and organisations, both state owned and private.

It is. Transparency is always nice but to be honest with you, i don't even think openreach know what they're doing yet. I'll be patient and wait till 2020, what's 2 years with 10+ years of slow broadband.

Regards
Michael.

Ohh most definitely a potential customer - in fact, not just one but there are eight hours in that area plus a small business park. I normally only get involved when there's an RJ45 connector inside but increasingly I'm getting asked about improving broadband in rural areas. We know that fibre has been installed up the road (clue "Fibre cables overhead" on telegraph poles) but ascertaining whether any of the premises en-route are planned for native FTTP (or whatever) is frustrating hard.

I thought we had got to the bottom of your scenario, i.e. its fibre feeding a cabinet and anything more is hopeless hope from just you.

Its like me having the hope when I walk past a security van that they'll just hand me a large ingot of gold, i.e. passing near is very different to getting access.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

I thought we had got to the bottom of your scenario, i.e. its fibre feeding a cabinet and anything more is hopeless hope from just you.

Its like me having the hope when I walk past a security van that they'll just hand me a large ingot of gold, i.e. passing near is very different to getting access.

No, it's definately not fibre to a cabinet (to then supply VDSL?). There are no new FTTC builds. It's full FTTP-on-demand funded by a group of farmers in the local area. They've paid over £60k for the privilege with possible government assistance. What's unknown is how it's been split to feed the various properties at the top of the valley and whether OpenReach have planned to use the same work (i.e. lots of new telegraph poles) to feed other premises half way up the valley.