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fearfac

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#138497 7-Jan-2014 10:20
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Also posted this exact thread elsewhere but just trying to get any advice I can get.

So ever since moving into this house I've been told its in the "coverage" area for fibre...cool so when slingshot finally unlocked it's plans (my current isp and who I wish to stick with) I thought even better since we'd been having roadworks outside my house for a while and I had seen the guys laying the fibre piping and figured all would be good

Now being this time of the year the technician hasn't made it out yet to look at doing the install etc but this morning a chorus fellow came to pick up all the spare piping they had left behind from laying it and was asked (not by me I wasn't around yet) if fibre was actually running past our house so we knew everything would be fine when the technician came to install....well turns out it isn't, it is however running halfway down our street and then just stops and is also right around the corner, I've put a link to a horrible mspaint picture that explains how it's been told the fibre is run currently (the red line is where I live which is the last house on the street but is up a bit further due to a empty yard being on the corner)

https://imgur.com/BqA0FHm

Now being that it wasn't me this information is second-hand but by the sounds of it they have no plans to run cable past the few houses they have missed unless we commission them to do so? which I figure will probably take longer than getting out there and learning how to do it myself.

Basically my question boils down to this, due to what I consider laziness (I'm sure some will disagree but it honestly seems they were just hoping nobody in these houses would want it) is there anybody I can lodge a complaint to? or am I basically just out of luck? and just to be 100% clear even the chorus fellow today said the piping that holds the cable is in fact laid there is just no cable/plans to run cable through it.

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InstallerUFB
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  #962923 8-Jan-2014 06:41
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Here a quick explanation of how the UFB network is installed (the newer verson commonly known as yr4 design)


The 26way microducting is laid down the street -
In the middle a device known as an ABFAT is installed (in a pit) with 26 connections to the right and 26 connections to the left
At the property boundarys (or near by) 1,2 or more of the tubes in the 26way microduct are tee'd off with single, 4 or 7 way microduct cables (the ends are either buried or installed into below ground pits (the round green lided ones are called 'hand holds'))

a small fibre count cable is installed into the ABFAT from the exchange or common jointing point, down a Tube in the middle of one of the 26way microducts and an Optical Spliter is intalled on the end of 1 fibre.
This is more than likely the fibre that has been described to your neighbour - It only goes to the ABFAT


that is all that is done for now


Part 2

Someone request a service connection


The install tech finds the end of the microduct foir your property
Checks to see if the exisiting Conduit to your house is usable to extend the microduct up to your house
If not - either replaces it themselves or has a civil works contractor do it

The microduct is extended up to your house

Then a fibre cable the 'blown' through the microduct from the ABFAT to your House
This Fibre cable is splced @ the ABFAT to the splitter and @ your house to the hybrid cable to the ONT.

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There are many variations on this but thats basicaly how it (for now) works





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