So, you have a new duct from the newly built box (JF2). The cable will easily come through the bend, the rope is to allow the engineer to draw the new cable through the duct. The joint put in the new box will a 'universal clip joint' of one type or another, so not a DP as such. Above the duct mouth will be fitted a BT66 closure, this will house the joint taking the feed and the lead in to your NTE.

Okay, Thanks for your explanation Zarjaz.

Fingers crossed all goes to plan and it's completed next week. I'll update the thread with pictures of the completed work and results when it is finished .

Are you by any chance an engineer Zarjaz ?

The great engineers left about an hour and a half ago and completed the wiring of the new cable coming up our drive.

They managed to luckily find a spare pair on the frontage tee cable and shared my confusion as to why the engineer who marked the new route a week ago 1. Didn't track the cable and 2. Put the Manhole Mark on the left side of the drive instead of the right side. There were definitely talks of getting another dig team out if there were no spare pairs.

So far, the connection stats haven't changed much but the SNR is a lot more stable and the line is almost silent (Touch wood the problem is fixed). One of the engineers did kindly reset the SNR and interleaving which has brought the line up to 20 meg with a 6.9dB Noise Margin.

They did exactly as you mentioned Zarjaz - They put a joint on the Frontage cable to connect the new cable (I think he put a really thin version of that black fiber manifold - without the fiber obviously on the cable to isolate it in the manhole) and also put a brand new shiny BT66 box above the duct mouth (Hence the question at the beginning of this post).

http://imageshack.us/a/img198/1215/img0036vg.jpg

Fingers crossed the problem is fixed permanently. Thanks for everyones' help in this thread!

I think he put a really thin version of that black fiber manifold - without the fiber obviously on the cable to isolate it in the manhole

?? Any chance of a sneaky picture of the closure in the new box out side ?

Not sure if I'll be able too because I'm guessing the cover is heavy and difficult to lift without the correct tool.

However, it looked similar to this:

http://i1026.photobucket.com/albums/y330/telephonene...

It just had more of a fiber manifold look (More bits of black plastic sticking out)

BT Fibre manifold looks very different

http://www.coolwebhome.co.uk/fibre-cornwall/images/f... one up a pole (the round bit to the left), same design is used for the underground manifolds too.

Can anybody please confirm 100% that the bt_test@startup_domain test user works on Fibre ?

Well off-topic! Need new thread!

Yes, probably poor advice.

The piccy you have linked is a dropwire (overhead) closure. I suspect it's just a clippy joint.