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Fibre enabled cabinet
24-12-2017 3:35 PM
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This is my cabinet for fibre enabled apparently. What's the difference between this and the new modern looking ones?
Re: Fibre enabled cabinet
24-12-2017 4:30 PM
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@Manny7860 wrote:
What's the difference between this and the new modern looking ones?
It's innards usually...
Re: Fibre enabled cabinet
24-12-2017 4:32 PM
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@Manny7860 wrote:
What's the difference between this and the new modern looking ones?
No graffiti?..no blobs of chewing gum?
Growing old is inevitable...But growing up is optional.
Re: Fibre enabled cabinet
24-12-2017 4:33 PM - edited 24-12-2017 4:40 PM
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That's just your telephone cabinet, it's fibre twin will be nearby.
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24-12-2017 4:43 PM - edited 24-12-2017 4:45 PM
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Re: Fibre enabled cabinet
24-12-2017 4:55 PM
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@Manny7860 wrote:
Is that not the exchange?
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...
Re: Fibre enabled cabinet
24-12-2017 5:28 PM
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Re: Fibre enabled cabinet
24-12-2017 6:12 PM
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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
Re: Fibre enabled cabinet
24-12-2017 7:33 PM
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Re: Fibre enabled cabinet
24-12-2017 7:39 PM
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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!
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24-12-2017 7:55 PM
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Re: Fibre enabled cabinet
24-12-2017 7:55 PM
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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
Re: Fibre enabled cabinet
24-12-2017 7:59 PM
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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
Re: Fibre enabled cabinet
24-12-2017 8:03 PM - edited 24-12-2017 8:06 PM
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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.
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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24-12-2017 8:05 PM
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