Landline conversion to digital

Similar to what they stuck on the pole in my garden:

It can go faster with GFAST, when not encumbered with the POTS service, so G.FAST on SoGEA can run up to 330/50

But BT only installed it in a handful of locations, then stopped installing it, preferring FTTP

Whats with the coils of fibre? Theres no metal so its certainly not inductive! :-)

Quite so. Mine is about 150 mm deep under the pavement, as was discovered when they were installing cable along the street, and chopped right through it. At the house end it was uncovered when I had block paving done, and entered about one brick beneath the tarmac, so is invisible. This is a 1973 property.

Chris

Yellow stickers saying "Danger of death" don't stop them...

Owain

Storage of slack.

You need mechanical slack, to make repairs of some sort.

If you need to re-terminate a fiber for any reason, that uses up some of the slack. Until there is no slack left.

Fiber has a minimum bend radius. If you coil it too tightly, you can damage it. That's why the fiber in the Alamy photo above, is in gentle curves. You would check the spec sheet for the jacketed fiber product, to see what the recommended minimum bend radius is.

Paul

Some BT fibre cables come with connectors pre-attached to avoid the need for onsite splicing. Perhaps that's the shortest length available.

But that?s different to telling them that there isn't any of the copper they want there.

The underground copper cables seem to be the ones they really want as they are so thick. The underground fibre cables have a yellow stripe to distinguish them. The ones I have seen also have a copper conductor to allow cable tracers to be used.

John

No, but those were in competition with a mental "sticker" of "lots of dish from the scappie here".

Once they have learnt that these ones in effect mean "no value", they may get a bit more choosy, and stick to electrocuting themselves in substations!