No you are right it can only take a day or two from the cab being stood to getting fibre into it
Just depends on the ducts for the copper (PCP to DSLAM copper ties) and civils depending on how far the blow is
Then once it's commissioned it's Upto the CP's to uptake the slots available in each DSLAM and offer it to their customers (you)
For Openreach engineers a normal copper cabinet is around 15 hours and fibre is around 10 hours of work, so 3 guys on it (one at each copper cab and one blowing the fibre) the work would be done in a day
No you are right it can only take a day or two from the cab being stood to getting fibre into it
Just depends on the ducts for the copper (PCP to DSLAM copper ties) and civils depending on how far the blow is
Then once it's commissioned it's Upto the CP's to uptake the slots available in each DSLAM and offer it to their customers (you)
For Openreach engineers a normal copper cabinet is around 15 hours and fibre is around 10 hours of work, so 3 guys on it (one at each copper cab and one blowing the fibre) the work would be done in a day
BT were knocking around digging the road up up to and around the copper cab a few months back - just wondering if they blew the fibre then in preparation for the fibre cab to be installed.
Looks like they didn't do much today. I'd like to go an watch them cuz I'm a nosy git.
we use contractors to put in the cabinets like Morrison's or CN who always subcontract
so copper and fibre cant be put in until the new cabinet is finished, they can however half copper the older style cabinet which will be within 50metres of the new cabinet, that means terminate 400 pairs into the older cabinet and coil in the other end in the JUF/JRF which will be on the pavement (jointway reinforced/unreinforced footway) an the cablers will get the BFT in place in the same hole (blown fibre tubing)
once the cabinet is stood or is being stood as long as the ducts are complete the jointers (me) come along and cable the last section and stick the BFT into the cabinet and secure it to a dual circuit box we've just fitted, once all that's done we then put air on at the node and check we are getting air at the cabinet, we then blow the fibre at 35metres per minute (top speed) and once it arrives (it can get stuck very easily) we then terminate at both ends, distance check with out OTDR (Optical reflectometer) and as long as light is between -3 to -10 DB, it passes, gets commissioned and then your CP call you with new speeds and lovely new offers, for BT you need the new home hub 5 to get superfast
there can be loads of issues like BFT being crushed when its pulled in so the fibre doesn't pass through, duct sections along the route being full of silt so the cablers can cable or the worst when the duct has collapsed and they have to do an overlay which is a new duct, so roads get dug up etc - now they've perfected overblowing which is passing more cables down established sub-duct when you have congested ducts so collapsed ducts don't get repaired
we use contractors to put in the cabinets like Morrison's or CN who always subcontract
so copper and fibre cant be put in until the new cabinet is finished, they can however half copper the older style cabinet which will be within 50metres of the new cabinet, that means terminate 400 pairs into the older cabinet and coil in the other end in the JUF/JRF which will be on the pavement (jointway reinforced/unreinforced footway) an the cablers will get the BFT in place in the same hole (blown fibre tubing)
once the cabinet is stood or is being stood as long as the ducts are complete the jointers (me) come along and cable the last section and stick the BFT into the cabinet and secure it to a dual circuit box we've just fitted, once all that's done we then put air on at the node and check we are getting air at the cabinet, we then blow the fibre at 35metres per minute (top speed) and once it arrives (it can get stuck very easily) we then terminate at both ends, distance check with out OTDR (Optical reflectometer) and as long as light is between -3 to -10 DB, it passes, gets commissioned and then your CP call you with new speeds and lovely new offers, for BT you need the new home hub 5 to get superfast
there can be loads of issues like BFT being crushed when its pulled in so the fibre doesn't pass through, duct sections along the route being full of silt so the cablers can cable or the worst when the duct has collapsed and they have to do an overlay which is a new duct, so roads get dug up etc - now they've perfected overblowing which is passing more cables down established sub-duct when you have congested ducts so collapsed ducts don't get repaired
but I hope you get it soon
I found that more interesting than you might imagine.
Sorted out today for the net to be set up at the new home etc. So, taking the opportunity to retest the current home as a benchmark. Thanks to new apartments being built and them all constantly tapping the same well:
Still get wallops of lag on Fifa. Is this my connection or just EA?
It could be the stability of the line, hiccups from your router, or simply most likely that as I'm guessing it's not using Dedicated servers, that the other player is hosting the game and they have a poor connection
Well I've just installed a brand new router hoping that would help. Given that I've never had a hiccup with say Mario Kart 8 it would seem that it's EA.
Well I've just installed a brand new router hoping that would help. Given that I've never had a hiccup with say Mario Kart 8 it would seem that it's EA.
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