@ BKK,
Please see
http://www.ewhurst-broadband.org.uk/?p=2463#comment-306but of course we haven't had any response from "Those who NEVER make mistakes" like these:-
http://www.ewhurst-broadband.org.uk/?p=2482http://www.ewhurst-broadband.org.uk/?p=2429Fortunately the exchange is just round the corner so I broke the BT authorisation rule and walked into the compound to find a very friendly engineer about to drive off.
He was very grateful and had some (unrepeatable) choice words to say re the NGA construction teams.
@ BBN
If you are being serious, the Operatives have made a fundamental blunder again.
It will be quite impossible to access all the manky old jumper bundles from the rear of the "Frame", nor would it be practical to strip the entire unit down and remake every twisted pair connection.
The following picture is of the one they half-finished on December 12 last year, but then recently had to break the duct seals to install the 5 pr telemetry cable to the little white box.
This line connects to an old fashioned dial-up modem in the FTTC and relays data back such as doors open, cabinet over-temperature etc.
We are STILL waiting for the fibre connection though.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/97601833Incidentally the small "blue bean" crimps were declared unsuitable years ago as they were of dissimilar metals making the connections unreliable.
Just out of interest an ordinary telephone pair has 4 crimps using the blue/yellow jumper wire to connect the E side pair to the D side, but a FTTC connection doubles that number in the PCP and adds a further 6 connections in the FTTC.
Kind regards,
Walter