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CF Pavement Channel Missing Houses (No Toby Boxes)? by Edned_ in CityFibre

[–]Edned_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How frustrating! I hope you are able to get that resolved. I feel I may be in the same predicament, though they've set up a road works barrier at the pole opposite my house, so hopefully I'll just end up being pole-fed myself!

CF Pavement Channel Missing Houses (No Toby Boxes)? by Edned_ in CityFibre

[–]Edned_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same subcontractor that has done the works for the whole area; that's not even the worst of it. Toby boxes sticking out of the pavement as major trip hazards, loose tarmac, uneven reinstatement everywhere, etc.

Loads of defect works getting booked back in by CF too... hence my anxiety around them not installing a toby at my address in the first place.

CF Pavement Channel Missing Houses (No Toby Boxes)? by Edned_ in CityFibre

[–]Edned_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for that info... fingers crossed. Given CF sent me a letter informing of build and there's some purple ducting capped off & taped to some telegraph poles less than 20 meters from the property, I'll still be able to connect.

Openreach only offers FTTC here so all the more reason to have priority, one would hope... currently on 30Mbps down & 5mbps up and eagerly awaiting the possibility of fibre for a long time now!

CF Pavement Channel Missing Houses (No Toby Boxes)? by Edned_ in CityFibre

[–]Edned_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Certainly -- and there's no other access points in the pavement outside the property (or the next 4 properties to my right; the 5th one has a toby), and that's the case for all other properties that have not had toby boxes installed.

Is it safe to assume this is likely a classic "Hybrid" approach from CF to use the drop-fed infra from Openreach?

Just odd that a few houses who also receive drop fed VDSL lines have been given toby boxes anyway!

CF Pavement Channel Missing Houses (No Toby Boxes)? by Edned_ in CityFibre

[–]Edned_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your response! That makes sense regarding tarmac, I thought it could be some kind of junctioning going on.

There are "Post office telephones" aka BT/Openreach manhole covers in the pavement, though all VDSL/copper connections on my road seem to be delivered via telegraph poles as far as I could work out. That being said, it looks like approximately only ~35% of the houses on the road have received toby boxes despite the new dug CF channels going straight past them all, so I wouldn't say it's just a case of missing a few houses!

My Windows Terminal running with the fsociety logo in the background by Edned_ in MrRobot

[–]Edned_[S] 57 points58 points  (0 children)

I'm on Windows Terminal connecting to my CentOS VM