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New Phone line installation info - BT Openreach
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I am getting a new phone line installed soon by BT Openreach. Can anyone explain how exactly this is done. How is it cabled from the exchange to my property e.t.c As much or little info you can give would be most welcome. Many thanks in advance, Dan. |
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When we had an extra line put in the BT engineer cabled from the pole to the house. He then put in the socket. The engineer told us he then makes the other end of the connection at the local junction box, and that in turn connects to the local exchange.
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We had a new line into our house. Didn't have one. BT engineer assumed they'd probably not wired it up because house was cable.
He wired socket to spare slot on pole, connected it up in street cab and there was some fiddling at exchange. So confirms Chris Frosts's account really. |
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It's pretty simple.
1) Underground (BIG!) cable from exchange to a local cabinet. 2) Underground (smaller) cable from cabinet to telephone poles on the street. 3) Overhead wire from pole to your house. So there are (hopefully) spare wires in 1) and 2) - they allocate these wires to your account, connect the wire from pole to house, and then go to the exchange and connect the correct wire at that end - job done. For fibre connections section 1) is replaced by fibre instead of wire, with a larger cabinet installed that converts the fibre back to copper wires, which then go to the house as before. |
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One thing I've noticed round here is that Openreach seem to be phasing out the traditional wooden telegraph pole. I've seen them install hollow metal poles in a few places. The cable goes from the house to the top of the pole then drops down inside and the distribution point where the house cable joins onto the cable back to the exchange is at the bottom of the pole behind an inspection hatch.
Which means the Openreach guys don't have to climb the pole after installation to inspect and test the circuit up to that DP. |
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It's pretty simple.
1) Underground (BIG!) cable from exchange to a local cabinet. 2) Underground (smaller) cable from cabinet to telephone poles on the street. 3) Overhead wire from pole to your house. there are no poles anywhere in my town. |
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you'll find that telephone poles are a thing of the past.
there are no poles anywhere in my town. I must live in the past LOL
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I can see one from where I am sitting now!
I must live in the past LOL |
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you must... or you live in a town with old infrastructure.
Jut out of interest where in North Ayrshire are you? The only new town I know there would the newer parts of Irvine. |
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Definitely the old infrastructure town - well, village. Telephones had not been invented when this place was built.
Jut out of interest where in North Ayrshire are you? The only new town I know there would the newer parts of Irvine. none in the newer parts of the town either. |
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my bit is just big shiny green street cabs and the rest is underground to the houses. |
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Telephone pole at bottom of my drive. Thankfully a wooden one. I'll be mindful of them on my travels now this thread has warned me of their extinction.
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you'll find that telephone poles are a thing of the past.
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I live in a newly developed area where there are no telephone poles, but I've never seen a green cabinet nearby, either. Do they now sink those underground too?
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I live in a newly developed area where there are no telephone poles
Retro-fitting underground cables to every home would cost billions, and cause absolute havoc. |
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On new developments they install underground telephone wires during the development, when it's cheap and easy.
Retro-fitting underground cables to every home would cost billions, and cause absolute havoc. But have you any idea about the equipment that would usually be found in the green cabinets, because we don't appear to have any? |
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Obviously.
But have you any idea about the equipment that would usually be found in the green cabinets, because we don't appear to have any? |
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You may have manholes instead (the big rectangular ones)
(Although I haven't spotted ours yet, despite efforts.) Thank you Chenks. |
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But have you any idea about the equipment that would usually be found in the green cabinets, because we don't appear to have any?
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2) Underground (smaller) cable from cabinet to telephone poles on the street.
3) Overhead wire from pole to your house. Mind you we are in a flood plain and I have seen water bubbling up from the Diamond Cable manholes before so perhaps that's the reason (then again considering the state of their cabs I'm surprised it still appears to work - many of them have the side doors open most of the time, a few have bricks leaning against them to keep them shut |
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I must live in the past LOL