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Something Connected To Telephone Cable?
Hey, before I spend 2 hours waiting for someone at BT to answer the phone I thought I would ask on here.
A couple of weeks ago I had my BT line installed, at the time I noticed that the engineer who installed the line had put something on the outside of the house which I have never seen before or none of my neighbours have. It is black and looks as though the cable goes into one end and then out of the other. I have taken acouple of pictures (see below) to see if anyone can tell me what it is or does? Image One Image Two Image Three Thanks. |
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i could be wrong but it looks like they give you a spire
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Thanks ilovekrys, may I ask what a spire is please?
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in short bt have ran out of space in the exchange and your using someone elses line will sort off i think thats how they put it anyway
also you may or maynot be able to have broadband on it has well but like i said i could be wrong if i am wrong im sorry |
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Hmm thats interesting. I do get broadband but not as fast as I was hoping - I only get 8mb downloads when I should be getting 16mb because I only live 750m from the exhange.
Does anyone else have any suggesions as to what this might be? |
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It looks like a cable joiner. We have one similar but it further along the cable.
It makes sense to have a joiner there, if the wire comes down at all, or they need to replace the cantenary wire - they can do it without pulling the cable off your wall. Did you complain about the rough job of wiring they did down your bargeboards? |
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hi all
the said piece of kit is the new dropwire closure , if we go on a task repair or provide and there is a bt16 small box on the eves etc(white ,brown black in colour). we must replace this with the new closure.as it is deemed 100% waterproof and if we do not change these out depending on the area the good old auditor will give the engineer a 10 point failure (manager then gets involved slapped wrists etc) |
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So is this something which may affect my broadband download speeds?
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So is this something which may affect my broadband download speeds?
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hi all
the said piece of kit is the new dropwire closure , if we go on a task repair or provide and there is a bt16 small box on the eves etc(white ,brown black in colour). we must replace this with the new closure.as it is deemed 100% waterproof and if we do not change these out depending on the area the good old auditor will give the engineer a 10 point failure (manager then gets involved slapped wrists etc) |
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their gonna get a defect any way, they missed the last helix on the clamp (pic 3).
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their gonna get a defect any way, they missed the last helix on the clamp (pic 3).
youre not an auditor by any chance
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Christ that's bad! The auditors will have a field day with that!
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bloodyhell you,ve got some eye sight i had to enlarge to see that.
youre not an auditor by any chance![]() |
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regards to your broadband speed, does your router show you connected as adsl 2+ or g.dmnt (something like that, can never remember the correct lettering)
I am using a (SKY) Netgear wireless router , where might I find this info from ? |
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Hi all, I just thought I'd give you an update.
I spotted a BT engineer sat in his white van this morning down the road so I asked him what the black "sausage shaped" thing was. Basically he said it was a kind of splitter. He said that the cable from the telegraph pole is capable of carrying 2 lines. He said that in the future if I required a second line it could just be connected to this instead of adding a second wire from the pole. Inside he said it was just full of grease and they were only invented a couple of months ago and replaced the previous style which did the same thing. |
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youre not an auditor by any chance
