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| Thread ID: 143939 | 2017-05-17 21:46:00 | Fibre | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 1435477 | 2017-05-30 05:22:00 | After all this have you considered wireless ? Sounds like a lot less hassle.. | paulw (1826) | ||
| 1435478 | 2017-05-30 08:20:00 | After all this have you considered wireless ? Sounds like a lot less hassle.. pctek Re: Fibre As I said I tried wireless, too much congestion here. Today, 12:47 PM |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1435479 | 2017-05-30 22:03:00 | Having slept on it, or actually spent ages last night looking at pics on geekzone, compare speeds and so on for the alternative, we have decided we are stuck with it. Seeing as we now have ages to wait, we're going to do as much as possible ourselves. The path isn't an issue (to us) so we'll do that properly. we have some 20mm plumbing pipe, dig it ourselves, cut the path, run that under, in a better position without his bends, to the corner and re-do the path. I'm not going to let him cut my drive, he can cut the concrete bit instead. And after reading Chorus website, I'm amending the fence part too. May do some of that too. So the lazy buggers can come back and feed it along without wrecking the place. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1435480 | 2017-05-31 02:48:00 | Dug the path out myself. Ordered 50m LDPE to run from corner of house along fence to plinth. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1435481 | 2017-05-31 03:05:00 | Nice work. I just can't see how Chorus think hanging it on a fence is a suitable long term solution. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1435482 | 2017-05-31 03:07:00 | Neither, and we're not going to, going to run it under. | pctek (84) | ||
| 1435483 | 2017-05-31 03:43:00 | The install work is contracted out, and sometimes sub contracted again. Just too much of it going on for the regular guys to do it all. Part of the problem in some areas is contractors being paid a fixed amount regardless, means they look for the cheapest quickest option. I'm not in a Chorus UFB area so it's different contractors again here and no Chorus involvement. There are still a lot of horror stories around this area regardless so it's not a problem unique to chorus. Mine went well though, they ignored the path the copper takes down the back boundary and thrust the fibre direct from the street to my house. It was about an hour from when they showed up until it was working. Only issue I had, it stopped working for about 24 hours after the initial test while it was apparently being configured. A little hard to fathom when it was actually working before they did that. No big deal though as my VDSL was still working at that point (because I am on Naked fibre and previously Naked VDSL there was no need to touch the copper so it's still actually there). |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1435484 | 2017-05-31 07:15:00 | Can they pull it thru the conduit which has the telephone pairs in it? | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1435485 | 2017-05-31 21:15:00 | Can they pull it thru the conduit which has the telephone pairs in it? Said that at start. No. Jammed or something, can't be budged from either end. And since he tried the bloody net keeps dropping off. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1435486 | 2017-05-31 21:20:00 | Dug the path out myself. How deep do you have to dig it? Thinking of doing this in my case. |
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