All the engineers were definitely thinking oh Ffs not one of these customers 😂😂😂.

Fair play to Wildanet and their lads for showing this for YT upload.

As an American, I'm jealous of the level of service y'all get from installation people: lifting and redoing the patio blocks? I'd be lucky if they didn't just refuse the install until I moved them myself. Had a neighbor get fiber installed - should have been aerial fiber to the pole in the corner between our lots, since the nearest junction was two lots down at the next pole. The contractor installers decided that draping the fiber on top of my back fence was just fine! Took a bunch of calls to AT&T to get them to come and fix it. I had to point out just how much their fiber looked like the creeping vines that I routinely cut off my fence to get them to even consider coming out.

On my install (Scotland, UK) I dug the trench across the garden (around the grass actually) before the guys even turned up. I'm a great believer if you want good service from our outdoor workers (the UK can be harsh!) then give them a helping hand. My ONT I wanted installed 10mtrs away (another room) from where the fibre came into the house because I didn't want a long CAT6 cable, so whilst the engineer was there I went under the floorboards (24" crawlspace) and ran the fibre for him and up through a hole in a floor board. Perfect installation and exactly what I wanted.

My fibre installation was hilarious. Fortunately, I have a duct for the old copper phone line so when a nice Openreach lady turned up to pull the fibre in, I assumed it was going to be an easy job. Some time later, I saw a huge cable tape reel outside my door and the poor young lady was getting frustrated that she had put 60m of tape into the duct and couldn't find out where it came out! She gave up for the day and said that someone would follow-up. After she had gone, I quickly coupled a signal generator into my phone cable and used a transistor radio to detect the signal. As expected, the signal led me to a BT manhole about 15m from my property. Her 60m of tape must have gone through the nearest manhole and disappeared down the street but she failed to spot this. Next day another "engineer" came and left within half an hour, job done...

If you want to keep using your old pulse dial phone, you can with an adapter that sits between the phone and router. It counts and converts the pulses to the correct tone. I have one and it works a treat, my old 1964 GPO706L has been given a new lease of life.

No impressed on the depth of the installation, wouldn't take much to damage that.

Very interesting and useful video. FTP is coming to our road very soon. The straws to the edge of the premise have been installed so it was great to see what is in store for us to get the actual connection.

Yeah, this is the kind of installation I dread the most. A shovels worth of depth is laughable at the very least, here in NL companies are required to bury the fibers (and other utilities) at least 40 cm deep. And when I installed a large planter box in my garden, I buried a pex tube to the side walk to act as an extra duct on the premise. When they came to install the fiber to the house, they were done in something like 10 minutes, including some fiber splicing. Second appointment to install the ONT was done in about a hour, which included two cups of coffee, shoptalk and drilling 2 holes to mount the ONT. I did have to go into the crawlspace twice, because the first cable we ran from the utilities box to the ONT was a mere meter too short ..... Long story short, I made a few friends because I made their lives just a little easier.

Funny to see you had a blockage! I had a similar situation, took a month and they dug the pavement back up to find their sub-contractors had lied and falsified all their testing having never connected the tubes to the main run for my entire side of street. But fiber is amazing.

Awesome just saw your video at Wildanet and decided to check after if yous had a install and awesome yous did and the video was uploaded 4hours ago and the time of viewing.

Oh no, when the guy said call wildnet and he said they have 'Horizon', the Post Office scandal flashed into my mind. I also think I remember when the phone network was run by the Post Office? My dad bought an old yellow telephone van to convert to a camper.

I don't know how I got here, but watched the whole video. Fascinating stuff!

When taking cable off a drum, the drum should be horizontal then you don’t get all those loops

Fascinating stuff Colin. We’ve got fttp here. Luckily BT installed ducts with a pull cord left in, and Cityfibre just pulled in the little tube without digging anything up. 100Mbs works a treat.

When my house in the US was converted to fiber from coax, they installed all the hardware on the brickwork outside. It was a Calix branded ONT device in a weatherized box and also a Cyberpower UPS backup as well. What they did inside is just drilled a hole and fed an ethernet cable through the bricks and installed a wall mount jack to the wall that plugged into the router. If you google "fiber ONT" and select images, that's the kind that I have.

To all the foreign people marvelling at the job these guys are doing. Your typical install of a big name provider like Sky or Virgin in the UK is **nothing ** like this. It's also usually copper from the box, but when he was saying how he was concerned that the paving slabs went back down properly, I nearly fell out of my chair. As an example, I've TWICE had it that installers disconnect my internet because they couldn't be bothered to bring a separate connector in the box so just used mine to link up someone else in the street box.

A really interesting video - thanks for posting it. I must say, though, it has given me some serious concerns about moving to a fibre installation in my home. The fibre would need to run through my garden - and at that depth, it would only be a matter of time before I put a spade through it! I know that there is no electrical danger from the fibre signal, but I would have expected it to be in a conduit and laid deeper - just to protect it.

The size of that mini shovel was hilarious it makes the job twice as hard, Also I would always drill from the outside into the house, That way you wouldn't blow a hole in the brickwork as it shows in the video ..... As an ex-BT engineer, I noticed they were working in a BT JF4 box... I assume they have permission for that...

Thanks for sharing. Loved the part when your son trying to use our old school phone 😂

"Mechanical splices and connectors" are good when you fix them and never touch them again :) . It has higher attenuation than splices made by fusion splicer and sometimes it slides off the mechanical coupler/splice. The connection (connector-adaptor) procedure , recommended and advised by manufacturers says : the connectors (pigtail) should be cleaned before insertion into the adaptor/device optical port . What is showed on this video it's complete opposite. It is easy way to provide some dust which will "close" the core, so the one click cleaner or "no dust" cleaning pad with IPA should be used. I have never used "mechanical splices/connectors" but many times made maintenance with fusion spliced pigtails replacements :) . As we , optical network engineers say: You can look twice into an active optical cable - once left eye then right eye. Stay safe guys.

Nokia ONT are used here and mine supports rotary phone dialing. So all my old phones from the 1940s and 50s still work.

Nice information thanks

As a retired fibre/copper installer, its absolutely amazing to see the advances in fibre technology. Blown fibre was starting to take hold when I left the industry in the UK 8 years ago. Back then there was a lot more splicing involved with an arc fusion splicer in nodes and spliced pigtails on some of the ends. Now with the pre made mechanical equipment they have it's so much faster for the installs. I love my FTTH here. Great video, and very informative as I know the issues weren't deliberately planned, it shows what can potentially go wrong on a standard install.

Totally different than our fiber. Here the "straw" is a 3/4" bright orange conduit and the fiber is the same as Ariel drop. Its armored as well and then the fiber is inside that second armored drop. They also did it with horizontal hydro drilling using a waterjet to blast the conduit through. Could steer it right up to the side of the house under the driveway.

Interesting! My 1940s Ontario, Canada home has low-voltage utility poles along my backyard property line that carries cable TV and more recently fiber. When I got 3G/3G, a dude went up on a ladder in the backyard, created an aerial line along the same route as the cable TV over to the house. I'd probably prefer underground, perhaps one day I will upgrade it. I actually own a fusion splicer but my ISP would probably not like me servicing my own.

5-7 minutes to boot the ONT? What's it running, Windows 98?

In Norway, we run the fiber directly into the house without having a box outside In Norway, the fiber is inside a fiberglass tube which, if left open in the sun and the weather, will crack. Fiberglass as it appears to be doesn't hold up that much. What I don't like about running cables through a wall from the outside in is that it is not watertight but moisture can get into the wall. Then you must ALWAYS have a plastic pipe from the box into the wall as extra protection. you have to think about everything.

Interesting that they use Gamma Horizon. It sounds like they outsource the voip element, which could be why they can't provision the router ata ports. Gamma may mandate that only equipment they supply will authenticate with their voip servers, which is resonable to ensure they dont get blamed for poor quality due to dodgy end user equipment. Also, i guess all the voip support issues go direct to gamma, which would present a problem if the isp were using their own ata built into the router. However, all these issues are administrative rather than technical so it's as shame that you've been left with so much kit to provide a data and coice service! Hope this improves as the service offering matures

At my apartment building, they replaced copper with a fibre to the prem setup but discovered there was no fibre between the pole and the building and no power line to the exterior of the building. They had to wait three weeks while Hydro brought in a new power line from the transformer to the building and then routed it to the externally mounted cable facility. Then when they went to install the HFC equipment in the cabinet they found out there was not enough room. So, then they had to order a new larger cabinet and plan to move all the existing equipment over. Having gotten that far they then found out that there was no room in the splice enclosure for another fibre. They also had issues at the headend as the fibre intended to be run for our building had to be reallocated to another run and they had no connection points left on the frame and had to order a new frame but instead opted to run it from another facility further away. Currently, we are sitting with an empty splice cabinet hanging on the pole with a 12-foot U-loop hanging down. The local crackheads are using it as a swing! They expect to finish implementation at the building in January of next year due to technical and planning issues as well as scheduling third-party contractors for the installation.

Interesting insite to fibre optics, looks very delicate and fiddly.

My work uses those Cisco ATAs to connect some legacy equipment into a Cisco VOIP system (previously we had an older Nortel/Avaya system). It's handy because if you have access to the internal network you can call them on an internal extension from anywhere, but I find sometimes they get confused and need to be reset, which is annoying when you know what the problem is but can't actually access the thing to reset it.

I really enjoyed this video. The funny thing is that I just made a rotary GSM phone using an old Italian rotary phone, so I can continue to experience the thrill of calling someone using rotary dialing, even when I am away from home. Very convenient isn't it?

cool to see how fiber is done in the u.k. plenty of employees to ensure the job gets done right. and it helps out in a contingency, which you experienced. I could get fiber but my current catv service works ok. my computers are too slow to benefit from the bandwidth increase anyway..

Since we're telling "be nice to installers" stories : when I had my fiber installed, they did all the way to the inside ONT. I pointed out where I wanted it mounted (next to the plate w/ all the the RJ45 keystone jacks) and mentioned "the bright pink string you'll find in there is a mason's line, to use as a pull cord". A while later, I was running some extra cat 6, opened the panel, and didn't see my pull cord! Started to curse (idiot pulled my cord out!), then looked closer: he'd bundled up all the extra string into a nice little "mouse" instead of leaving it dangling like I usually did.

Very interesting. I wondered how they did that.

In my place, only take 2-3 hours to completed all the task shown in this video including the VOIP and IPTV Box. Most router provided are wall mounted and we can change to a better router if we want. I do change to a different router myself a few times in 7 years using the fiber connections.

As an American I'm very jealous that you even got fiber installed at all. Here it takes months of delays for a local company to get permits to even install the fiber at all and then it takes years to get fiber even into your neighborhood, if at all!

With the Voip end of things the Cisco box is a standard Sip box. The two connections for phones allow for two separate lines with different numbers. In the config of the Cisco box you should be able to switch between tone and pulse. Individual Voip handsets would require an ethernet cable to each. Liked the vid.

Glad the fibre works. I'd like to get fibre myself (several networks put infrastructure in our area recently), but I live with family so it is impractical to have anything permanently installed, so I'm stuck with an LTE modem. VoIP can be really good (when it works). Ethernet phones have good sound quality and are reliable and caller display works all the time. I don't know about Ciscos, but Grandstream ATAs support pulse dialling; I use one with my old GPO model 746. Caller display also works on the Grandstream, but you have to configure it to the UK standard. Personally, I have a rather fun VoIP setup - one number rings three destinations; a Snom desktop phone, a GPO 746, and a GSM mobile with a SIM card :).

We have virgin fibre in our area but they failed to lay to my premise, I was glad when YOUfibre (netomnia) installed there network and had them supply FTP via overhead line. I much prefer that than the mess that is fitted in the street with Virgin. Had my Fibre installed into the roofspace and was able to hide all the equipment there so no rats nest of cables on view. Voip phones was a simple case of running the cable of the old BT Master socket (also in the roof space ) to the Arris router job done. PS I could not live with the setup you have at your front door.😬

Very interesting video and an insight into how installation of fibre does (or does not) work! I do have a few observations - things that surprised me. The way they rolled the straw off that drum was far from ideal. The drum should have been on a stand so that the straw was pulled off to stop the curls, which no doubt make direct burying more difficult. Given that the blockage in the straw was in the relatively short distance from the tap to the pit do they not have the ability to push something more substantial than a fibre down to attempt a clearance? It must have been disappointing for you that the capability of the router was lacking. To have a USB port not facilitating some storage and two VoIP ports not functional seems very deficient. That said I have always found that purchasing a decent aftermarket router gives greater benefits - especially in a fibre installation like yours where there is a separate fibre termination unit - so the router does not need network login details. The knowledge level about VoIP and the Cisco product was somewhat lacking. I'm sure that the Cisco VoIP adaptor supports two independent (different numbers) VoIP lines should you need them. However I would recommend you move over to a whole VoIP installation and consider something like a Gigaset IP unit. These support 3 VoIP lines, one POTS line and up to 6 handsets. The base unit plugs directly into a Ethernet router port. On the matter of VoIP providers you can get VoIP services from a number of suppliers and this makes it independent of your main ISP. So you can change ISP at a later date and not loose telephone numbers or have complexities of Porting numbers. I have run my VoIP phones for over 10 years and use a Raspberry Pi operating with Asterisk for a fully fledged home PABX. This supports multiple lines and extensions and gives full PABX facilities like voicemail, inbound routing, selective call direction, ring groups and much more. If one of your boys is interested in computing it may be a project for him! My system supports 2 UK Dial in numbers and (as I have friends in Australia) one Australian number - so I can call Aus. at local rates. I run a Gigaset with 3 handsets and 5 VoIP desk phones. If you run your business from home something like this would give you very professional telephone presence for just the cost of a Pi. It sounds complicated but really is not as there are number of packages available for direct download to a Pi. You just have to configure the system with the VoIP account details and the extension plan you want around the house. Another consideration about VoIP is that some VoIP providers allow multiple registrations so you can use a phone APP connected to your VoIP number - useful should the power go or the internet fail. In the later case you could fire up the VoIP on your mobile till normal service resumed. BTW the Caller ID issue could also be related to the settings on your existing phone system. There are a number of Caller ID settings and BT's do not always match the out of the box settings on VoIP ATA's - the guy there should have been able to confirm that the settings between your existing phones and those of the ATA were compatible. To be honest the Cisco (nee Linksys) VoIP ATAs are very competent units - and unless they have changed have a considerable number of configuration options available via the web interface - maybe you could log into the ATA (assuming it has not been locked down) and check yourself.

I use Virgin Media here in Leamington Spa (no FTTH available just yet locally) and last year they upgraded my router/wifi which uses fibre to the street cabinet then coax to the house. With the new router, they said that the analogue phone line would be replaced by VOIP. They also specifically said that any internal extension wiring would no longer work. When the technician came, I said that I was disappointed that my internal wiring could no longer be used. I have a wired phone in the kitchen area and a DECT answerphone/base station with several radio connected handsets around the property. Oh, no problem, he said. He got a small adapter from his van which takes the phone line out of the router and connects to terminals to which he ran a cable to the old analogue master socket. Result - old legacy analogue extension system fully working. And as all the gubbins is in the router, I still have my 4 ethernet ports available (of which I currently use 3 for TV, fixed PC etc) The VOIP is super clear - much better than the old analogue line which was pretty crackly at times. The only downside is that the phone is now susceptible to power failures as there is no battery backup... Oh yes, and caller ID works as before so I am happy with that!

Fascinating video. When I changed to VOIP I found my old push-button phones wouldn't ring on incoming calls. I suspect the 'REN' on the VOIP socket on my router is very low. My DECT cordless phone worked OK.

Interesting video, seems to have been very involved compared with my Zen / Openreach FTTP install which just took about an hour. With the Zen supplied FritzBox router you can share a USB device (both locally and remotely via a VPN) and the VOIP phone sockets on the back are active so no need for a separate Cisco ATA box. The Zen FritzBox can handle two phone lines with different numbers and also has a built in DECT base station. With my Openreach install it was just two engineers as far as I’m aware. They both pulled the straw into the existing Openreach/BT ductwork adjacent to my copper phone line and then one guy did the splitter end whilst the other installed the ONT and the internal fibre cable. The FritzBox router was couriered separately to me and it was easy to install myself. The people from Wildanet seem very nice but their install seems very labour intensive with multiple engineers involved and I couldn’t believe they sent a guy with an ATA (analog telephone adapter) when all most ISPs would do is enable the VOIP ports on the router…

I am in New Zealand in Wellington - capital city- and here Fibre cable from the national network to a house is installed free if you are in a "designated area". This area covers about 90% of the population. My ONT is in an internal room and the installers were happy to run it to there as long as I had installed a draw wire from the ceiling cavity ( where the cable came into from the outside from a telephone pole) to the place on the internal wall I wanted the ONT (else they go through the external wall like in the video). I then run an ethernet cable to my own supplied router and from the router cables to various devices - TV, PC, security cameras, printer etc. Absolutely no problem getting it working.

I am a former helpdesk worker for a Dutch ISP for DSL over copper. I have had FTTH installed in my home a while ago. This nothing is like it was for me. It took them a couple of weeks to install a load op fibre into the street. When installed into my home they just drilled straight through my outer wall and brought, with a lot of sweat and swearing the fibre cable into my house. I have a small box on the living room wall where I suppose I will plug a modemrouter in. My experience with VOIP is that in the Netherlands the modemrouter is equipped with RJ11 sockets where a regular phonejack can be plugged in, right into the modemrouter. No extra material necessary. I hope to switch to fibre in the next months. As VOIP is available I suppose that will not work differently. Dutch ISP are known to buy their modemrouters and then equip them with their own custom firmware. No manufacturer blocking options on the router there.

Glad my fibre is from openreach and in decent ducting proper underground

28:21 would've been nice if they cleaned the ends before popping the fibre in, would've ruled that out as a cause for the problem right away.

From memory we had those same DECT phones and they were always hit and miss with Caller display. The ATA needs to manually generate the 'modem tones' (data burst) that is sent before the phone rings that contains the telephone number, the DECT base station then decodes these to get the number then sends those to each handset and makes them ring. There are different standards, so try changing those in the ATA. At the time I was trying to use VoIP (decades ago), I just couldn't get caller ID to work reliably, it occasionally worked. I think the problem was simply variations in how the ATA was generating the tones (i.e. slightly different to BT’s standard or timings) and how tolerant the older DECT phone was with receiving them. Also the DECT base station may have settings to change the line type or country type, changing this may help. In modern times we use a Yealink DECT VoIP base station, it removes the VoIP to POTS conversation step and everything just works.

A DTMF converter will sort out using your pulse dial phone, you can even get ones that fit internally nowadays. The big issue you’ll come across is that in most cases the new digital lines don’t carry enough voltage to activate the physical bells correctly, so you’ll likely end up with a silent or at best very quiet rotary phone.

Interesting to see a UK install. Here in Australia ANY exposed cable, even in the roof, had to be enclosed in conduit for protection. Even a nightmare install here in Oz - ahh... This have be bad flashbacks as it took a month of faffing around to get mine on, similar issues to yourself - oh, and it's always someone else's installation part to blame 🤬

It's a shame we didn't have the same people putting the fibre-optic cables along our streets as after they had finished, some of the slabs started sinking and cracking. The one right outside the shop opposite, next to the manhole cover, was particularly hazardous!

Quite different then in The Netherlands. cables here are much deeper in the ground. We also don't have the termination unit outdoors, but indoors, but then again so does our electricity meter, consumer unit, gas meter, water meter , coax, telephone line etc. (well at least in modern houses). Also the ground isn't full of rocks so it's much easier to do so. I have 2 seperate "boxes", but that is different between providers. some have 1, some have 2. Basicly I have an ONT that is half your size ONT and a seperate router. I can use my own router if I want to, and technically my own ONT, though I don't know of anyone that managed to get his own ONT working. Also the ONT is quite expensive if you have to buy your own. You can also use your own €200-€300 costing XGS-PON SFP+ module if you can get it working that is. They do allow it but provide no support. I can get 4 Gbps/4Gbps service here.

Hearing Gamma followed by Horizon - I understood that and why an external box was required!

Am from eastern EU and we have optic-fiber from a long time 10 years or maybe more. And prices here start from 5EU ( Internet only ) up to 25EU (internet + cable TV). No one use land line 20 years or more. Only some big companies use it but is mobile phone using internet.

Gosh they made that whole install look like hard work! I really don’t understand why these companies don’t use fusion splicers. I love my Fujikura splicer.

Had mine done the other day took about an hourish. I went for 600mbps symmetrical. Compared to the old copper line were i got 60 its a massive improvement im very happy with it. Also my new provider county broadband will provide the service free until the end of your current contract so im essentially getting 600mbps for nothing for 3 months. Mine also doesn't have a seperate ont the fibre goes straight into the router. Then I've run network cables off to other routers for good coverage.

For the pulse dialing rotary phone, you can use another ATA (Analog Telephone Adapter, currently the Cisco ATA 192) that supports pulse dialing, such as a Grandstream HT-802, then it will work without the adapter you have shown.

In South Africa we have above ground Fibre and below ground Fibre at my house we have below ground and the Fibre is pulled in water tight piping about a half a meter deep into the ground straight into the house to a ont despite installations being expensive some offer it for free on a year contract and we have speeds up to 2 Gbps most symmetrical.

25:20 seeing them avoiding cleaning and spunching is concerning after seeing how the cleaning can take seconds with the click cleaner in the last video, it's annoying, I can understand the reasoning behind not spunching the line before the fibre because they currently can't after the change, but the fact they're not going to even bother using the click cleaner on the ends before potentially dirtying up the terminal after feeding the fibre through a unspunched line is crazy

My dad in the US used a rotary home phone until the 2010s because the phone company charged an extra 15 cents/month for a push button phone. He probably saved a few bucks over the decades, but I always found it amusing.

20:17 The fiber coupler has a rubber bung in both ends, so if he inserted it into the coupler, he doesn't have to remove the rubber bung from the other end of the connector, and therefore dust won't get in, so it was kinda an unnecessary ask. If dust were to get into the coupler in that state, then there would be a serious design flaw with it.

Almost all providers will not do all in one solution. The router is capable of doing a all in one, but for ease of use, the rarely do it. Just like the ONT. They do make a router/ONT combo, but again it's rarely used, except by big companies. With your setup, you can have several smaller companies or departments provide the individual devices and services. If one fails, they just replace the part that fails. Rather then have to support a single all in one device, which would be hard for one person to know everything about. Example, the Phone guy probably has a 2 day class to only do the ATA (Analog Telephone Adapter) install. He would not know how to do anything else. Even your installation would be done by several smaller companies. One lays straws, or what we call in the states microduct. Another would blow the fiber. Another would terminate the fiber and so on. Your router is made by a company that makes several types of routers. Your fiber provider will buy them and customize them for their use. You will probably never see the USB port used, because it cause a security issue with your ISP. They would have to unlock a part of there firmware that could allow would be hackers in. It could be done, but ISP's rarely want to spend to time and money in adding that feature to the custom firmware. The ONT installer probably should have not installed the ONT when he did . Its not good to leave them on without a fiber installed. It could burn out the laser or sensor in the ONT port.

If anyone is interested the connectors used are LC-APC

How big is that Adtran router? and if half the ports are either administratively shutdown or OOS I would put in a Firewalla Gold or Gold SE (yes you can change the mac addr on the wan port). Then just put in a Voip adaptor. Openreach put fibre down our road in the middle of last year only to then bypass our property and 3 others. Supposedly we should be on FTTP soon. Good to see that you are now connected.

The usb connector on the back of the ONT is for Mobile backup. In case your fiber goes down you can connect a 4G or 5G mobile card. We do that here in the USA.

hi, very interesting, we are in north in Barnstaple and managed to get our network system changed from leased line to this form of fibre with Jurassic Fibre. All is well, but as I am trying to future proof, I am keen to make sure I have a path to 10Gbit when technology advances.

I'm shocked that there was no conduit used and when the guy put the cable "a shovels depth" down. I guess it depends on how deep the shovel goes :P In Aus, it's supposed to be 300mm deep and be inside conduit. The old fashioned phone will work if "Pulse Dialing" is enabled. Not too sure is that Cisco ATA has this option but it's an option on many ATA devices.

When drilling through bricks it is possible to avoid 'blowing' the brick on the outside (making a much greater hole than you really needed)by drilling from the outside inwards. You then don't see the damage as it is in the cavity. The trouble is you may well get it on the inside in the wrong position!!

I'm guessing the USB port would be for 4G/5G fallover dongle, also the " SIP engineer" didn't answer your question, sounded like he didn't know the answer and change the subject, but ATA stands for analog telephone adapter, cheers .

In Australia the fiber is put through a conduit in the street where the old copper is installed or in some places it comes off the power poles the fiber terminating unit here has 4 gigabit ports for 4 services and two ports for a normal wired phone but only the old network provider Telstra (like the UKs BT) offers it.

Funny to see the different way things are done there vs here in the USA. Strange to see that they aren't offering symmetrical speeds there. We have a number of carriers that offer 8Gbps symmetrical speeds here, 1Gx1G is very common here with many carriers offering 2.5Gbps & 5Gbps service for residential service. We also have linear TV with over 400 simultaneous channels being broadcasted on the same fiber. 🤠👍

Protect the incoming fiber straw between the ground to the wall box, the straw is strong but not uv light proof A metal cover; that kind you use to cable would protect from booth uv and mec damage.

Some ATA's handle pulse dialling. I have a Grandstream ATA on an old black Bakelite phone with a DTMF adaptor inside for my work no. VOIP phone at home.

If you want to keep the Philips handsets, you might be able to get a DECT to VOIP adapter. I have Gigaset phones, and managed to get a Gigaset VOIP base station for around £40 on Amazon. I plugged that into my network, configured the VOIP settings via its web interface, and then just re-paired the handsets to that instead of the old base station. I think I’ve lost the voicemail functionality offered by the PSTN base station; but I never used that anyway.

The guy that first attempted to blow the fiber was using a bad machine. The hexatronic ABF tool that the second guy came back with is much better and doesnt damage the fiber on the spool if it stops flowing because it only uses a light magnetic grip which doenst put much forward pressure on the fiber. I have never heard of microducts being called straws before - thats pretty cool.

My phone was plugged into the ADA without the need for an extra box and consequently another power adaptor. Hope you had enough sockets in the hallway. VOIP install was easy, just an RJ43 to PHONE adaptor between the ADA and the Phone. When we have the odd power cut, the phone rings twice as the ADA has to re-establish the connection. Annoying at 3am!!! You can use pretty much any recent router instead of the provided one, it only needs to be connected initially to make a connection after a power outage. Once connected, disconnect the CAT 5 from the Router and plug it into the 1st LAN port of the other router, having set the router to work with existing LAN connection. I'm with SWIFTNET and they only supply a small PLUME two port wifi router that is the size of a mains adaptor. I needed the Wifi to be high up on a cabinet and didn't want to run a power cord up to it, so use an old FRITZBOX or TALKTALK router and it works just fine.

Interesting to see how wildanet do it, thanks for sharing. Wonder why they use a cisco ata rather than the built in one in the router

I'm switching from Plusnet to Lightspeed, in March. They supply a combined ONT and router in one, made by Nokia.

Did you not already have voip over ADSL? In Australia our old copper system was shut down its all voip now, though we still have copper from the house to the street in most places, then it goes to fibre, a bit shitty, but work pretty good.

I'd have been pretty impressed if the rotary dial worked with the black box, because the marketers would have surely been saying "no one uses rotary dial today, so why do we need that capability?"

47:35, no, you don't need a separate ATA, just configure that ATA with account details for the 2nd RJ11 port

Did they lay each microduct to each boundry box individually to number them? If they were all installed in to the splitter enclosure, they wouldn't need to ID the drops or introduce another connector. And the field assembled connector to avoid training someone how to fusion splice (similar with all the excess at the customer side).

In Germany, the box for winding up the fiber is installed inside the house.

I used to have a job coordinating with US companies & can confirm that a dial telephone could make your finger rather sore. I was interested to see you used your own UPS. I wonder how long it would power the units for. It is a problem having to replace centrally powered systems with ones powered at the premises.

Correct me if I’m wrong but I have a Cisco voip to analogue adapter with two phone ports and I believe you can assign a separate number to each port but you’d have to login to the adapter via its ip address and configure it to do so. Your Voip service provider would have to assign the second number to you and either tell you how to configure your adapter or do it for you via remote access to your pc.

Back in 1984 when BT was privatised, the government stopped BT installing cable / fibre as they said it was unfair competition. Now we have a mess basically with the multitude of providers....thanks gov!

Those tiny tubes and trying to push the fiber through it is the silliest thing I've ever seen.

can you still use old broadband and router or do you have to use fibre?. i have 35meg and i dont need fibre or higher speeds

Quite surprising how installations differ from installer to installer. We don't have a box on the outside. The fibre comes straight into the house direct into the back of a small box which is then connected by a small fibre cable to the Router. The only electricity supply is to the router (which I have on a UPS, so if the electric goes off, we don't lose the internet). Round these parts, from what I saw the cable depth is about 500mm or otherwise strung from pole to pole with most fibre connection boxes being at the top of them. Reliability, we have had a couple of issues. One, when thieves stole a 'secure' cable. Knocked out not only our ISP but Openreach, emergency services etc. Took a day to get it back on. Then about 6 months later, there was a major issue with the main equipment at the ISP. That took about 24 hours to rectify. But apart from that, it has been 24/7 in nearly 3 years @ 500Mb up/500Mb down. I did away with the landline option though. We all have mobiles and I just couldn't see the point of a landline - I'd already had BT's phone disconnected for years.

What happens if you don't have mains power near the entry point to the property ?

BT's method of using the phone masts is much simpler and avoids most damage. No chance of someone hitting it with a spade etc. Only potential downside is weather but the UK only sees heavy wind at the very worst and they hold up fine. The main problem with BTs infrastructure is the fact they use GPON nodes (mostly) and don't offer symmetrical speeds.

Interesting watch, I don’t think I would use my nice Knipex pliers to pull a cable clip out of brickwork 😂

A strange way to do this to me , 20 years ago we did army camps as big as small towns and the glass fiber was all ready in the cable going into the ducts under ground , no pulling the fiber on it's own . Has it moved on so fiber jointers now not required ? on every property install point of entry .

with working with cisco, it takes max 3 mins to add, a 2nd number on the ata. its 5 rows of plain text to add in the config file., but they might like to sell cisco hw :) Pulse will not work., as the Cucm is using DTMF, but there is a adapter that translates pulse to dtmf if you like to use the old phones. and this is allready a voip config :)

Is there no armour on those straws? Buried just below the surface too. Can't help thinking this is installed on the cheap.

47:20 The 2nd RJ11 socket is for a different VoIP account with a different number

Can the omt and router run on an extension as socket is a few meters away?

ATAs are available that support loop-disconnect dialling, so if you REALLY want to keep your Trimphone working for another decade, it's not out of the question.