Re: Sigh. Another powerline adapter fail

Hmm. Where our incoming fibre is secured to the house wall (high up) there is a joint of some sort. Certainly no box.

In message snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net>, Timatmarford snipped-for-privacy@marford.uk.com> writes

The contractor that did mine said that they weren't allowed to work in lofts (or drill through plastic). However he did ask if I was happy to run the fibre through the loft to the desired location. As luck would have it, I was, otherwise it would have been impossible to install the ONT in (for me) the best location.

Adrian

Welcome to the Life of Sparky :-)

No. there is no high level joint

In my case the fibre runs overhead to an attachment point and then down the eaves and house corner then under the drip bead to the final ground level termination box

It is continuous from the pole to that termination box

I don't plan to get a ladder out:-)

Looks like a black plastic envelope maybe 35 x 75mm.

see this

Umm. The original telephone line was retained by being routed through a spring like wire attached to a wall fixing but then continued through the loft to a eaves cupboard and the router. There must be some sort of strain relief for the fibre coming in from the roadside pole. The pole itself now has several junction boxes as data feeds split off to the various properties.

I know (and fully intend to do both), hence my surprise and reply re. the comment that OpenReach would insist on the double socket etc.

Presumably phone only now.

There is. The cable is a bundle consisting of (in my case) a sheathed optical fibre, a large steel cable laid alongside it and a copper pair off to one side, and then an overall sheath,

The full cable was wound onto a spiral so the steel takes the strain. Then the outer sheath was stripped off and cut back with the steel cable, leaving an insulated copper pair and the sheathed fibre. The twin copper goes to a standard phone junction box and the fibre carries on down to the external termination box, where an internal cable is spliced to it.

I am the only property on my pole!

Splendid isolation.

They are wall socket to wall socket. They test OK

Dave

It depends on your ISP. Some require you to use the supplied router and don't give you the password to use your own...

Dave

However, packet dumping the PPPoE interface should solve that problem. John

What is the max length for gigabit Ethernet?

Supposed to be 100 metres... If Russ Andrews made Ethernet cables...

Dave

Well if you are connected via a numpty class 'consumer' ISP...But one assumes most UK.d-i-y people would be on one of the better supported independents.

CAT5e is now officially rated for 100m at 2.5Gbit/s, John

Plusnet isn't bad, considering that it is part of BT. It knows about fixed IP addresses, so I wouldn't call it 'consumer'. Demon went downhill fast as soon as it was sold, though it wasn't completely destroyed until Vodafone got hold of it.

I was having a decent day until you mentioned him...

A bargain at £10,999 for 12m (complete with 72V dc bias to improve the sound.

John

Does it come having had a burn-in period? It must be good, look at all the reviews.