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#846237 27-Jun-2013 15:36

ubergeeknz:
Klipspringer: Hope the guys has insurance..
Surely he would be liable for costs?

Criminally liable, I'd say. You can't tell me that was an accident with a straight face.

It was an accident. :|

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#846240 27-Jun-2013 15:36

johnr:
linw: I thought a selling point of UFB was its reliability??!!!

The cabinets are not designed to be run over

No they are designed to be ugly and in the way.

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#846250 27-Jun-2013 15:46

The last time someone bowled a cabinet like this, one of the Chorus guys here reckoned it was in the region of $150K to replace. Ouch.

Whatifthespacekeyhadneverbeeninvented?

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#846254 27-Jun-2013 15:48

ptinson: I think he was trying to do this trick but with a car and a cabinet...

Might have worked, i cant see the car...

It got zapped into the fibre line and is now roaming the internet....

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#846256 27-Jun-2013 15:49

ubergeeknz:
Klipspringer: Hope the guys has insurance..
Surely he would be liable for costs?

Criminally liable, I'd say. You can't tell me that was an accident with a straight face.

Maybe he just didnt like his internet connection....

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#846258 27-Jun-2013 15:51

xpd:
ubergeeknz:
Klipspringer: Hope the guys has insurance..
Surely he would be liable for costs?

Criminally liable, I'd say. You can't tell me that was an accident with a straight face.

Maybe he just didnt like his internet connection....

Pretty sure Chorus have some spare Conklin cabinets they could replace it with...

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#846264 27-Jun-2013 15:57

ubergeeknz:
xpd:
ubergeeknz:
Klipspringer: Hope the guys has insurance..
Surely he would be liable for costs?

Criminally liable, I'd say. You can't tell me that was an accident with a straight face.

Maybe he just didnt like his internet connection....

Pretty sure Chorus have some spare Conklin cabinets they could replace it with...

Could take the one, our colleague is on, he doesnt need internet anyway.

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#846266 27-Jun-2013 15:58

xpd:
ubergeeknz:
Klipspringer: Hope the guys has insurance..
Surely he would be liable for costs?

Criminally liable, I'd say. You can't tell me that was an accident with a straight face.

Maybe he just didnt like his internet connection....

A slingshot customer perhaps?

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#846276 27-Jun-2013 16:04

ptinson: I think he was trying to do this trick but with a car and a cabinet...

Might have worked, i cant see the car...

Obviously on hitting the UFB connection, the car instantly hit 88mph, and is now somewhere over next Wednesday, or is that only on 4G? :)

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#846279 27-Jun-2013 16:07

GregV:
ptinson: I think he was trying to do this trick but with a car and a cabinet...

Might have worked, i cant see the car...
Obviously on hitting the UFB connection, the car instantly hit 88mph, and is now somewhere over next Wednesday, or is that only on 4G? :)

Of course what was i thinking...

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#846281 27-Jun-2013 16:12

When did this happpen. eg date

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#846285 27-Jun-2013 16:15

if you hard wired all the connections into one would you get a giant LAN network?

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#846296 27-Jun-2013 16:26

DarthKermit: The last time someone bowled a cabinet like this, one of the Chorus guys here reckoned it was in the region of $150K to replace. Ouch.

Wasn't that for a whisper cabinet? These have full ISAMs and a cooling system in them.
This is a GPON passive cabinet. Should be far cheaper to replace as far as the cabinet goes. redoing all the fibre will be a pain/expensive though - someone else will have to comment on that.

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#846325 27-Jun-2013 17:27

eXDee:
DarthKermit: The last time someone bowled a cabinet like this, one of the Chorus guys here reckoned it was in the region of $150K to replace. Ouch.

Wasn't that for a whisper cabinet? These have full ISAMs and a cooling system in them.
This is a GPON passive cabinet. Should be far cheaper to replace as far as the cabinet goes. redoing all the fibre will be a pain/expensive though - someone else will have to comment on that.

Splicing the Fibre would be labor intensive... That' being said, like all good Tradie's they'll probably just get the Apprentice to do it.

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#846444 27-Jun-2013 21:34

The Spilter looks like it servived, you might be able to recover trays and blockhead fittings (24 connections on each) and depending on where the fibres snaped - most of the pigtails but other that that the rest is toast

I wonder where that fibre slack came from ?

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