Landline conversion to digital

Isn't there a fibre termination box (passive device) to splice the 'outdoor cable' to the 'indoor LSOH' grade cable, and then that goes to an (active device) ONT ? Or did they in your case take the 'outdoor' cable all the way to the ONT ?

Ideally I'd like the ONT to be in my technology cupboard, that is deep inside the house. Currently the overhead POTs line hits the bargeboard, goes into a little BT66A junction box, comes out of there as indoor CW1308 and runs straight into the loft space, and down into my cupboard from above, where it terminates on a BT master socket.

I'd really like the same route for the fibre, with the 'outdoor to indoor' splice box either on the bargeboard, (or ideal, but likely not allowed) in my loft space.

Failing all that, the bargeboard does have a 'lip', that I could glue a length of 6x6mm trunking to on the unseen inside edge. That would get the fibre to an 'inward' corner of brick work. From there just down the brickwork to 300mm above ground level, fix the splice box there, drill a hole straight into my study at that point, and fit the ONT on the inside. Then patch the ONT ethernet output up one of my spare CAT6 tie lines back my technology cupboard.

What a day it's going to be. I'll make damn sure to be there !

That's not wifi

since most wide area telephony is now carried out over packet switching, or even IP, you are wrong there.

That's what I wanted. They refused to do it though.

Well, I'll pre-prepare the site for all eventualities and options.

It'll depend largely on the man, and his mood,  on the day I suspect. Another variable is if the job gets contracted out to Quinn or Kelly Comms. In that case, you really do have to wrestle the initiative away from those bozos

Biscuits not posh enough?

A mobile is bugger all use for those relying on a home lifeline/alarm system which plugs into a traditional PSTN socket. Won't be cheap switching all those to systems which use mobile networks.

not strictly correct....

All the Vodafone Gigafast products are the *same* speed both ways:

S.

Presumably Vodafone use their own fibre, rather than using openreach's GPON infrastructure?

And its not quite correct to insinuate that Virgin's and Vodafone's products are related to the underlying Openreach product for two reasons:

Virginmedia run their own network

Vodafone's Gigafast product is also on their own network, put in by City fibre.

The upshot is that we have 3 sets of green roadside cabinets on the estate, those being of CityFibre, Virginmedia and BT?Openreach.....

I could if I really wanted to, have all 3 services provided to our house independently of each other.

As it happens, I have a dead BT master socket in the loft, a now dead Virgin media TV & Telephone socket in loft but I do have a live Optical Fibre from Vodafoen in the loft.... :-)

correct....

And Virginmedia also use their own infrastructure....

No, because I don't do Facetiming (whatever that may be). I hardly ever phone them though either.

Click on link on bank website, open audio/video calling function. Doesn't have to be typey-chat. Certainly doesn't have to be "dialling" 0345 788 8444 on a "phone".

Owain

You can move the ONT yourself, with a fibre extension lead. You just have to be careful not to break the BTOR fibre and to put it back if you need to call them out.

Owain

Granted that it is these days, but I think not when the NHS first adopted fax and obviously inertia is a big factor too. Then again, I imagine fax may also be more reliable, considering the NHS computer system's track record. I do find it worrying that digitalisation can lead to worse system resilience.

Whatever; my comments are no more than idle maunderings. <g>

They brought the external fibre drop from the pole inside. It looks like the wire wrapped the optical cable so they could fix it to the facia, then just fed it down, cable tied to the back of a nearby gutter downpipe until it was close to the trunking I already had on the side of the house.

System X predates fax. we haven't had an end to end single copper pair since the 1960s

Then again,

IP transfer is extremely resilient: And end to end encryption is better than fax for security

Uploading a file using https is pretty damned proof against man in the middle attacks

Many legal firms will use this sort of secure file transfer. You get an account which limits what you can access, and you can upload and download files in secure ways.

It predates CCITT group 3 fax, sure, but I think don't think even dennis would claim System X was around before 1843.

The green BT fibre cabinet 1/2 mile away has a leccy meter in it. Since all the houses on this estate have copper phone lines underground and not in ducts, but get their 'fibre' broadband via this green cabinet, presumably BT will still power the phones ringing tone ?.