Fibre broadband

Today I was connected to fibre broadband. It was quite painless. Three men arrived at noon and completed the process within two hours.

This white cable is used for connection from the terminal outside to an ONT in my computer room.

Outside terminal similar to that copper junction box lower down near the ground which was used for the copper wire previously for the land line to every house.

One man was working inside the ceiling cavity under the roof, pulling the white cable along the roof joist above the pink bats insulation in the darkness inside the attic.

The fibre cable follows the route similar to the old telephone cable

from ceiling down to a black box ONT screwed to the wall. A line connects this black box to the modem on the table behind the computer. Another line connects the ONT to the phone jacks as before, to power up the copper line circuits already laid inside the walls when they built the house 20 yrs ago. The ADSL filters are still there.

completed terminal

splicing the glass fibres

Great care was taken to loop the fibre cable in large circular loops. If this cable is bent the tiny glass fibre inside may be damaged and the signals will be weakened. This will affect the download speed of my computer if I were streaming movies.

Sparks service has improved

My telephone went dead. So, I googled [sparks] looking for help. I found a chat box. The gentleman's name was Melvin. He was very patient and he helped me. Previously, we called an 0800 number. In my case it is useless because my phone is dead and they assume that every one uses a cell phone. I don't have a cell phone. I am a blogger! Bloggers type, they don't talk.

Recently I applied for fibre broadband. Some men came round on 15/2. They dug up my front garden and then they blew a fibre core through a small tube from the terminal to my house. Then they left. Sparks seems to be operating in such a way that its left hand doesn't know what its right hand is doing. My landline is now dead. What if I need to call an ambulance in a hurry? What good is fibre when you are dead?