- Location
- Northumberland
Think it`s fairly basic technology, so probably all do what it says on the tin
Overhead FTTP
- Thread starter Y Fan Wen
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- Location
- Northumberlandia
on grassland its about 18-20" afaik land that will never be touched of course, perm grassHope that mole is nice and deep...
Good news on the way though...
Not very deep at all then....
"Never" is a long time, but not so bad if around headlands I suppose.
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- Location
- Northumberlandia
Mostly Rigg n Furrow ground that ive seen which will never be cultivated
Y Fan Wen
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- Location
- N W Snowdonia
Surely Rigg and Furrow 'was' cultivated?
- Location
- Northumberlandia
not in 3 generations its deffo not been !! & thats 120+ years
Y Fan Wen
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- Location
- N W Snowdonia
On my meanderings yesterday I was on a minor road and noticed that fibre had been strung out alongside the original copper.
I came to where it stopped and saw that a fair length was coiled up and taped to the pole.
Ever curious I stopped to examine it looking to find the end but failed.
I was amazed at how light the cable was. I had assumed that there would be a steel core to act as a catenary but obviously not.
Presumable they are using a non metallic filament as the strain taker, possibly carbon fibre or maybe the whole cable itself has enough tensile strength?
I came to where it stopped and saw that a fair length was coiled up and taped to the pole.
Ever curious I stopped to examine it looking to find the end but failed.
I was amazed at how light the cable was. I had assumed that there would be a steel core to act as a catenary but obviously not.
Presumable they are using a non metallic filament as the strain taker, possibly carbon fibre or maybe the whole cable itself has enough tensile strength?
Scholsey
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
Underground fibre was put it along a lot of countrylanes and some main roads around here and in most cases which literally just scratches in below the verge, 1 car fire/wet harvest, lorry getting sucked into the verge or a few potato/maize trailers using a soft gateway and I imagine hundreds/thousands could lose their broadband connection and take a long time to fix!
have overhead FTTP here, downside is it’s with BT.......
have overhead FTTP here, downside is it’s with BT.......
- Location
- South Devon
That will be empty ducting with no optic fibres inside - Openreach have just done the poles on the road, at the end of my lane.
- Location
- Northumberland
- Location
- Northumberlandia
bobthebuilder has full fibre across fields, onto BT poles along roadsides the lot & BT had nowt too do with any of it....
Storeman
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- Location
- South East Englandshire
That's a standard copper wire junction box.
- Location
- Northumberland
Timbo
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- Location
- Gods County
Y Fan Wen
Member
- Location
- N W Snowdonia
Amazing!
ollie989898
Member
Tell me something. Are old BT copper phone lines underground put in ducts or not? I mean isit much of a job to pull fibre through to replace them??
- Location
- Northumberlandia
some are yes, for instance there is ducting under the east coast line no far from me as the local IT firm who ran the Fibre cabling had to use that duct.
Timbo
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- Location
- Gods County
If the duct is passable yes theyll use it. They pull in a dedicated fibre mini duct and blow the threads through that as needed.