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Martin wrote:

I grew up and are really poor area when I was a kid, the red telephone
boxes contained a coin box, a handset connected with nothing more brown
curly wire and a usually intact set of directories, yet they were very
rarely vandalised, then came the 'Never Had It So Good' era of the 1950s
and everything seemed to go so terribly wrong, what happened?
Socialism.

The never had it so good generation were SuperMac Tories.
There was a general shift in educational and parenting philosophy during
the early 50s which had little to do with party politics. Possibly it
was a psychological reaction to the straitened circumstances of the war.

Bill

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Bill Wright wrote:

Fibre is useless for mains. Doesn't seem to work at all.

Says who?

http://optics.org/article/25151

Hopefully it'll cook or blind the little *******s if they try to nick it
too :-)

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ian field wrote:


They're just making it obvious there's nothing in there worth nicking.

This is one of the UK's most prosperous towns, people don't nick cable round
here, they don't need to, unemployment is quoted in 'hundreds' rather than
percent. Instead they go round mindlessly destroying everything they can. The
Post Office have even decommissioned a pillar box outside of an arcade of
shops, because of repeated vandalism. It was so popular, you'd often have the
mail brimming out of the slot. The nearest alternative is now a mile away.

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Mark Carver wrote:

This is one of the UK's most prosperous towns, people don't nick cable
round here

I don't suppose it's the locals around here that go in for it, pikeys
don't have flatbed transits round your way?

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"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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One thing worth worrying about is that the new BT broadband system is now
using cabinets very similar to the ones Virgin have used. I predict the
same situation there very shortly.

Brian


The good news is that engineers who access BT cabinets use a key.
*some* VM contractors have a completely different approach to accessing a
cabinet.

Sheila

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Brian Gaff wrote:
One thing worth worrying about is that the new BT broadband system is now
using cabinets very similar to the ones Virgin have used. I predict the same
situation there very shortly.

Who on earth told you that ? BT's FTTC cabinets are some of the most
secure I've seen ?

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On 07/02/2011 19:06, Mark Carver wrote:
Graham. wrote:
"Gaius" wrote in message
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That picture tells you all you'd want to know about VM.

Linked cable ties "securing" a door - FFS. BT's customer service may be
the pits, but at least their engineering hasn't sunk to that level.

Yet.

The primary locking mechanism seems to rely on a pair of granny's
knitting
needles.

Well on my way home tonight, a fast response repair team seem to have
visited, and reinstated the high security cable ties, and applied some
more insulation tape just to make su-

http://www.markyboy.net/vmbox2.jpg

Personally I would have used metal strapping rather than cable ties.
The local council 'round 'ere often use it to secure the access panels
for street lamps.
But what do I know?
Dave
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"ian field" wrote in message
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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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ian field wrote:
"Sheila" wrote in message

I would go with "Virgin Media for such a pathetically insecure
installation". It may have been visited by vandals, but I am not
totally convinced. Three observations, VM contractors have been known
to use force to gain access to cabinets, no attempt has been made to
vandalise the contents

That'll be because it was copper thieves who lost interest at first
sight of the fibre-optic cables.

95% of the cables in there are copper coax, and power

95% of 0 is...........................
There is a mass of around 50 coax cables connected to the network in the
centre of the photo. Mark's statement is a fair approximation.

Sheila

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"ian field" wrote in message
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"Sheila" wrote in message
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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Photographed this on my walk to work this morning:-

http://www.markyboy.net/vmbox.jpg (850k)

Last week, the daisy chained white cable ties were half way up the
cabinet, holding the door closed, quelle surprise this morning it looks
like this. Curiously the vandals haven't ripped the guts out (yet)

I don't know who's the dimmest. The vandals, or Virgin Media for such a
pathetically insecure installation ?

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I would go with "Virgin Media for such a pathetically insecure
installation". It may have been visited by vandals, but I am not totally
convinced. Three observations, VM contractors have been known to use
force to gain access to cabinets, no attempt has been made to vandalise
the contents

That'll be because it was copper thieves who lost interest at first sight
of the fibre-optic cables.


The UK's Cable TV/Broadband network uses coax to distribute the network from
street cabinets to customers homes.

Sheila

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In article ,
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
I grew up and are really poor area when I was a kid, the red telephone
boxes contained a coin box, a handset connected with nothing more
brown curly wire and a usually intact set of directories, yet they
were very rarely vandalised, then came the 'Never Had It So Good' era
of the 1950s and everything seemed to go so terribly wrong, what
happened?

Socialism.

The 'never had it so good' phrase was coined by Harold MacMillan. Didn't
know he was a socialist. That's what I like about here - you learn
something new every day.

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