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I think it depends. Most houses near me are served by poles, and I could see the road names written on the yellow tags would be a single fibre for each pole, and a pole (from what I can see in my other pictures) can serve 24~ connections. So I'm really unsure what the absolute capacity would be, I guess it's somewhat dependant on how many times they can split a single fibre from the PoP.

@Gunny as far as I've always understood it (and have seen) they won't use Openreach chambers/existing copper runs for their fibre to the premises, rather they'll dig their own trenches in the pavement to outside each premises and run fibre from there (much the same as Virgin do with their coax). The link between the box and chamber is likely for the fibre run from the PoP and runs to other poles/cabinets/chambers that need linking to it.
That will be interesting to see what they do because the Toob tubes have been installed to that BT manhole, from there they will have a hard job trenching across peoples gardens and driveways.

This was the aftermath of when the phone line attacked the digger 😆, it would be much cleaner to rod through this plastic than to try a dig up driveways, i will let you know what they end up doing but I hope it’s the former.
 

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Today, some new activity.
In a number of streets next to mine, they have been putting in the Toob DPs at the top of the poles.
They have also strung fibre cables between the poles in the street and connected to each of the pole DPs.
Also today a few guys with tablets have been walking around our streets, looking at poles and looked like making note of house numbers.
 
Had a chat today with the guys who are putting up the DP boxes on the poles.
They are connecting to the live cables now present at the bottom of some poles and stringing fibre cable between the other poles
Saw a good dozen boxes on the floor they were about to install in a couple of cul de sacs the far end of my road. Loads of fibre cable on the pavement too.
They are contracted by Toob, just to do this work.
Interesting he said, its better to have poles as they are easier to fix with the runs between the poles or via the existing openreach ground runs for the poles or even for the new runs if needed and later for customers if anything goes amiss.
He also said poled areas will go live first before the all ground run housing areas.
 
My pole that serves me with my Sky Broadband Openreach line at the mo has today just had its Toob Dp box installed/connected. The same guys I saw last week.
The line comes from one pole and another line from my pole goes out to another pole.
The guys are churning through these very quickly. Our road and all its off cul de sacs and closeby neighbouring roads are now complete with Toob DPs on poles..
So thought I'd call Toob, mentioning our DP box has gone up. They said there should be an announcement in August for a go live here.
Still four months away for me yet.
One thing I do like about Toob, on the few times I get through is they answer straight away and are so friendly.
 
Toob external wallbox w/cover removed and cable coiled up. You'll notice a fibre splice in there - the engineer had to come back to repair the pre-terminated end as I believe it had become damaged so that's the splice you see. Usually it'll just be an LC to LC connection using the green block.
If you dont want the external wall box on the outside of your house (and prefer it inside because fibre is initially going into your garage) that is possible if you ask nicely.
 
If you dont want the external wall box on the outside of your house (and prefer it inside because fibre is initially going into your garage) that is possible if you ask nicely.
That's what VM did with my connection, it was already preinstalled when I moved in so I hope if and when they get around to upgrading my area that they keep the same setup in place.
 
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