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"Terry Casey" wrote in message
... In article , says... Yes, the idea that copper thieves forced the doors was a daft idea. My point was to correct the comment that VM's street distribution cabinets contain fibre-optic cables. Whilst fibre is not found in cabinets which handle subscriber distribution, there is an exception. Magnavox used to do a Trunk amplifier with an integral fibre receiver, known as Fibre-in- the-lid, for obvious reasons. Examples I've seen, in former NYNEX areas, have had subscriber distribution in the same cabinet. -- Terry Erm, I am confused. Maybe not in your area but here VM (formerly NTL, formerly Bell Cablemedia (I think)) have fibre feed to the street cab and a paralleled pair co-ax/four-pair to the house. The co-ax carries TV and broadband, the pair carries telephone. Even BT do exactly that now - or they did as of this morning when an Openreach man fitted a new line at a radio site for me. BTO man advised that as there was 40Mb to the cab and the cable was only about 300m we should possibly get as much as 20Mb if we wanted it. -- Woody harrogate three at ntlworld dot com |
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Graham. wrote:
http://www.superstock.com/stock-phot...es/1566-272977 But the Rediffusion did. Big time! Does anyone remember the TV ads for "The Rediffusion Wire" with the animated bird "Rediffusion Reggie"? We got the job of removing a lot of old Rediffusion overhead cables because they were pulling the chimneys down (they used to go chimney-chimney to get over main roads). Bill |
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Woody wrote:
Erm, I am confused. Maybe not in your area but here VM (formerly NTL, formerly Bell Cablemedia (I think)) have fibre feed to the street cab and a paralleled pair co-ax/four-pair to the house. The co-ax carries TV and broadband, the pair carries telephone. Even BT do exactly that now - or they did as of this morning when an Openreach man fitted a new line at a radio site for me. BTO man advised that as there was 40Mb to the cab and the cable was only about 300m we should possibly get as much as 20Mb if we wanted it. BT FTTC-VDSL ? I get 34Mb/s sync 1km 'as the crow flies' from the cab. At 300m, unless the cable really is damp string, you should max out at 40 Mb/s sync, actual throughput won't exceed 37 Mb/s because of overheads. Congestion, contention, and bottle necks upstream will reduce that further at times. Nevertheless, it's very nice. -- Mark Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply. www.paras.org.uk |
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"Mark Carver" wrote in message ... Bill Wright wrote: You've made it worse by putting the whole tonal range into the middle. The blacks are 46/256 above black and the whites are 188/256 above black. Better to use the full tonal range and merely tweak the gamma to increase midrange contrast. Thanks for your concern chaps, the enhancements from Rick and Peter are very good, but just as you can't beat having more signal in the first place, rather than trying to boost it, I will take a new shot tomorrow morning, with the fine example of telecommunication engineering excellence, glowing in early morning Hampshire sunlight. -- Mark Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply. www.paras.org.uk The gloom could be considered a metaphor for the state of British engineering standards. -- Graham. %Profound_observation% |
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Woody wrote:
"Terry Casey" wrote in message ... In article , says... Yes, the idea that copper thieves forced the doors was a daft idea. My point was to correct the comment that VM's street distribution cabinets contain fibre-optic cables. Whilst fibre is not found in cabinets which handle subscriber distribution, there is an exception. Magnavox used to do a Trunk amplifier with an integral fibre receiver, known as Fibre-in- the-lid, for obvious reasons. Examples I've seen, in former NYNEX areas, have had subscriber distribution in the same cabinet. -- Terry Erm, I am confused. Maybe not in your area but here VM (formerly NTL, formerly Bell Cablemedia (I think)) have fibre feed to the street cab and a paralleled pair co-ax/four-pair to the house. The co-ax carries TV and broadband, the pair carries telephone. My understanding certainly was that there was fibre to the cabinet, and coax and/or UTP from there to the premises, depending. Cambridge cable presentation (now Virgin via NTL) IIRC is /was pure coax. With phones demuxed of that somehow. I think. Even BT do exactly that now - or they did as of this morning when an Openreach man fitted a new line at a radio site for me. BTO man advised that as there was 40Mb to the cab and the cable was only about 300m we should possibly get as much as 20Mb if we wanted it. 40Mbps to the cab is crap. Surely the fibre handles more? |
Virgin Media Box: Class Act
"Terry Casey" wrote in message ... Cable companies aren't allowed to use overhead distribution in the UK but BT still can and do ... Virgin have been trialing it recently: http://www.silicon.com/technology/ne...work-39745587/ Paul |
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"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message ... Woody wrote: "Terry Casey" wrote in message ... In article , says... Yes, the idea that copper thieves forced the doors was a daft idea. My point was to correct the comment that VM's street distribution cabinets contain fibre-optic cables. Whilst fibre is not found in cabinets which handle subscriber distribution, there is an exception. Magnavox used to do a Trunk amplifier with an integral fibre receiver, known as Fibre-in- the-lid, for obvious reasons. Examples I've seen, in former NYNEX areas, have had subscriber distribution in the same cabinet. -- Terry Erm, I am confused. Maybe not in your area but here VM (formerly NTL, formerly Bell Cablemedia (I think)) have fibre feed to the street cab and a paralleled pair co-ax/four-pair to the house. The co-ax carries TV and broadband, the pair carries telephone. My understanding certainly was that there was fibre to the cabinet, and coax and/or UTP from there to the premises, depending. Cambridge cable presentation (now Virgin via NTL) IIRC is /was pure coax. With phones demuxed of that somehow. I think. Even BT do exactly that now - or they did as of this morning when an Openreach man fitted a new line at a radio site for me. BTO man advised that as there was 40Mb to the cab and the cable was only about 300m we should possibly get as much as 20Mb if we wanted it. 40Mbps to the cab is crap. Surely the fibre handles more? It's being limited, at the moment. Exactly the same as DSL was when it was first rolled out, or is that fell out, across the country. |
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"Terry Casey" wrote in message ... In article , says... The original system where I live was installed quite a few years ago by the aforementioned United Artists (now Virgin) an American Company, I wonder if they use same style cabinets in the U.S. and if so, the reason that they aren't designed to be bomb proof is simply because they don't have the the same proliferation of moronic chavs who constantly vandalise them in the same way as they do here in the UK? In the States, it's mostly out of reach because they use overhead distribution - like BT still do for telephones in some places. Hence the underground (in the UK) subscriber distribution feed is know as a 'drop' cable. Cable companies aren't allowed to use overhead distribution in the UK but BT still can and do ... Cough Come to some of the streets in the east of Nottingham and tell me those aren't Virgin cables and poles. Even the users aren't particularly happy about it but it does happen. |
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"Paulg0" wrote in message ... "Terry Casey" wrote in message ... Cable companies aren't allowed to use overhead distribution in the UK but BT still can and do ... Virgin have been trialing it recently: http://www.silicon.com/technology/ne...work-39745587/ Paul Piloting it????? It's already being done and has been for at least 10 years |
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