DAY BEFORE INSTALLATION:
The technician came over to give me a run down of the installation. He asked where i'd like the ONT(OPTICAL NETWORK TERMINAL), he recommended the lounge, the master jackpoint is located here, and because in the future any TVIP services are easier to connect to the ONT.
Because i also have a Vodafone ADSL service at this address i had to let him know that the fibre was being installed along side the copper. He said thats not a problem because they are trenching along my garden and the path for the fibre cable to the side of the garage, then up and through the roof, and being orcon VOIP , no other wiring needed to be done in terms of new jack points.
He then advised that he will be here the following day just after 9am with a few other techs
DAY OF INSTALLATION:
The techs arrived 3 of them at first, they starting setting up and opened the pedestal, straight away the noticed a problem and the pedestal was damaged and needed replaced, off they went starting to dig the concrete up to replace just the pedestal.
The next problem then revealed its self. As you can see in the photo below the GREEN FIBRE PIPE was placed just beneath the concrete, and laid incorrectly, if the council was to come along with a concrete cutter it would cut right through that cable.
The hole you see in the picture above is where the copper network is currently.
The techs by now had decided to dig up the foot path and place the fibre pipes into where the copper network is shown below:
This made it easier for the techs because they would now run the fibre underground alongside the copper lines instead of digging the garden and path up. The black thing you see does exactly the same as those grey soda-stream cylinder looking things outside most properties.
One term that the tech kept using was "When we blow the fibre through" my intial thought was hmmm ok must be a tech saying.
Nope definitely not a tech saying.....
2 techs went down to the exchange, well one remained at the property, i was mid conversation with the tech when out of no-where a hissing sound started, then about 1 minute later, a yellow fibre line literally flew out of the fibre pipe showing below:
The pink casing you see in that picture is a type of seal just in-case there is a gas leak at my property, this pink seal stop any gas from travelling down the fibre pipes and making the entire neighborhood flameable because gas is in there fibre pipes.
The fibre that was "blown through" actually carries two fibre lines, and these fibre lines, are thin heres another picture of that yellow cable above split open revealing the 2 fibre lines inside:
The techs run the new fibre cable up to the roof to the lounge and down the inside of the wall, they connect the ONT up and setup the ONT ID.
By now the installation was almost finished, just a few last things to do, and the installation was complete.
The blue fibre line is the one that carries my fibre signal. The orange is not being used, maybe sometime in the future or if the blue wire got damaged somehow.
This is now small the fibre line actually is inside the blue and orange wires.
The tech then put the ONT unit on the wall powered it up and waited for a few updates to download onto the device. This took about 10minutes, and rebooted many times. During this time, the tech was setting my orcon genius modem up, and plugged the ethernet cable into PORT4, by this time the ONT had finished updating and was ready to go, the tech then proceeded to plug the ethernet into PORT1/GE1 on the ONT.
It took the orcon modem 5minutes to be fully operational, this is because it downloads your internet username, and allocates you your landline number by itself, gone are the days of entering 10.1.1.1 or 192.168.*.1 to configure your modem!
There you go the install is complete.
Hope this is useful for some people
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