In reply to a post by Andrue:

First thing this morning an Openreach engineer was wandering around my street lifting chamber covers and typing into a laptop. Came back from shopping later and now there's three OR vans with a large tripod near my cabinet. Looks like they might finally be putting fibre into the ground.

Looks like BT are accepting orders. I noticed today that whereas the availability checker was saying 'FTTP: No' it no longer mentions FTTP at all other than that it isn't a priority area.

On a whim I placed an upgrade order with IDNet and they are now waiting for confirmation of the installation date.

Engineer is here at the moment and one question is now answered. There is ducting under the road between my chamber and the one where the CBT is. He only had to pull a few metres of cable through. Interestingly the original engineers had provided a blue rope for him which I wasn't aware of.

Edited by Andrue (Mon 07-Jul-25 11:07:34)

congrats to the fibre Club, Andrue!

Manifold was the term used for the original BFT (blown fibre tubing) ‘milk bottles’. Seen on pole tops and in footway boxes.
The (then hollow) tubing was pushed onto the allocated colour port in the manifold and run to the location of the old style CSP.
At the fibre DP node, you located your corresponding coloured tube, set up your compressor, blowing head, etc … and if you’d done it right .. you rattled the four fibre bundle from DP to CSP. Spliced through to a live fibre. Ran in the eezee bend lead in to the four port ONT (fitted as standard) spliced through at the CSP, fired up your CF29 to activate the ONT ….. simple 🙄

As such they are now superseded by the connectorised multiport CBT’s.

Thanks for that! Slight problem now though. LOS is red so engineer is checking to see if the CBT has been connected to the network.

In reply to a post by Andrue:

Thanks for that! Slight problem now though. LOS is red so engineer is checking to see if the CBT has been connected to the network.

Lol. The engineer can see my light back at the splitter so now he's having to chase up the network team. He thinks I might be the first person in Brackley on the new cabling and that someone hasn't completed the connection to/at the exchange.

In reply to a post by Andrue:

The engineer can see my light back at the splitter so now he's having to chase up the network team. He thinks I might be the first person in Brackley on the new cabling and that someone hasn't completed the connection to/at the exchange.

I thought a light test was done on port 1 of each new CBT during the commissioning phase so are they taking shortcuts with commissioning these days?

I thought a light test was done on port 1 of each new CBT during the commissioning phase so are they taking shortcuts with commissioning these days?

Ya dangle the carrot, and corners get cut to reach the root veg.

You gotta love performance management, it brings out the best in everyone.

In reply to a post by Andrue:

Thanks for that! Slight problem now though. LOS is red so engineer is checking to see if the CBT has been connected to the network.

I’m kinda wondering why the engineer didn’t check for light at the CBT when they first got there ?

As the engineer had done all he could inside I left to play golf. When I got back home both green lights are lit. All is now working except for IPv6. The router that IDNet sent out 'preconfigured' apparently wasn't configured for IPv6. The out of office hours support chap didn't really know anything either so I have to wait for a ticket to be processed.

Slightly irritating, I do expect better from them.