Fibre enabled cabinet

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Hi guys
This is my cabinet for fibre enabled apparently. What's the difference between this and the new modern looking ones?

[#2]

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@Manny7860 wrote:
What's the difference between this and the new modern looking ones?

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It's innards usually...

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@Manny7860 wrote:
What's the difference between this and the new modern looking ones?

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No graffiti?..no blobs of chewing gum?

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That's just your telephone cabinet, it's fibre twin will be nearby.

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Is that not the exchange? Alright the ones that are smaller rectangular with grills in them?

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@Manny7860 wrote:
Is that not the exchange?

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Not unless it's a Tardis, a telephone exchange is a largeish building filled with racks of telephone, internet and fibreoptic interface equipment...

That street cabinet is just a junction box...

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Don't the fibre cabinets have numbers on to identify them?

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A FTTC cabinet has to be within about 100m if its PSTN "pair" so it should be easy to spot which is new and which is old.

Unlike PSTN cabinets, FTTC ones generate heat so a fan is needed along with air vents. When the fan is active you can hear a low hum if you're close enough.

The following site gives some info on cabinets.

http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/fttc-cabinets.htm

Brian

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Found a fibre cabinet nearby not mine though

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That's very strange, because my cabinet has just been upgraded to fibre and right next to it has appeared another cabinet just like the one you have illustrated! 

[#11]

The cabinet/ junction cab which I'm connected to seen this nearby can't make out if it is a fibre cabinet looks a bit on the small side. Sorry picture isn't clear.

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@Manny7860

Well, that's certainly within 100m.

What does the OpenReach website say for your phone number?

https://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/index.do

Brian

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@nozzer

A FTTC service always consists of two cabinets - the original PSTN cab and a FTTC cab. Your phone line remains on the PSTN cab. The FTTC has a fibre optic connection to the Internet Head End (which may be nowhere near the Exchange).

If you order TTC a connection is "jumped" between the two cabinets which is why they need to be near to each other.

Brian

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@Manny7860 wrote:
The cabinet/ junction cab which I'm connected to seen this nearby can't make out if it is a fibre cabinet looks a bit on the small side. Sorry picture isn't clear.

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If you scroll down in the link in post #4 you will see that is an ECI 128/256 FTTC cabinet.

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@bmc my areas had fttc since 2014