K8-bit
Casual Member
So after achieving our target back in Feb for the voucher scheme, Openreach and partners have been busying themselves around the town with various works, including this last fortnight laying new ducts around our own street and surrounds. I'm genuinely interested in what happens next. They dug a trench along the pavement from the BT manholes on both sides of our street, presumably laid ducting in it, covered it, and re-tarred (or whatever it is!) the trenches. The trenches split off between the properties of our 2x3 terraced houses on our side, so the one at ours sits precisely between us and our neighours on one side, so I guess that duct is splits off to feed us and them. This stops right at the fence at the bottom of our garden. Today a separate contractor came along doing something/testing something with cables in each BT manhole along the street.
What happens next? Do they put in some kind of termination, or will they lay new ducting/cabling on-demand when we can order, from there, up our garden to the house to fit the external box?
Here's my next question - where the ducting presumably ends, it's direct in-line with our porch, but we have no power/connectivity in the porch, so in theory they won't be able to enter the house there, they'll need to come in somewhere where the living room is - where power sockets are, and also our current master socket + router, am just wondering how they'll do this with the limits on angles/bends in fibre cables. Possibly a slow S-curve from the entry point, lifting the paving slabs of our path, back under the garden to the window. Am just a wee bit worried we won't be able to get the ONT where we'd like indoors.
Openreach engineer I was chatting with last week said it should be ready in about 3 weeks.
What happens next? Do they put in some kind of termination, or will they lay new ducting/cabling on-demand when we can order, from there, up our garden to the house to fit the external box?
Here's my next question - where the ducting presumably ends, it's direct in-line with our porch, but we have no power/connectivity in the porch, so in theory they won't be able to enter the house there, they'll need to come in somewhere where the living room is - where power sockets are, and also our current master socket + router, am just wondering how they'll do this with the limits on angles/bends in fibre cables. Possibly a slow S-curve from the entry point, lifting the paving slabs of our path, back under the garden to the window. Am just a wee bit worried we won't be able to get the ONT where we'd like indoors.
Openreach engineer I was chatting with last week said it should be ready in about 3 weeks.























