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Nice one Dillinger, Ive put ferrite core's on all my electrical equipment lol might as well just incase.

 

The engineer that came to fit my fibre said in all his years of doing this he had never seen seen such a mess in the E-side cab , took him 30 mins to find my cables because it was bodged together.

 
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Fantastic job dill.

 

Really looking foward to your next articles. Learn for this obe a lot. Will go and if the box is open will capture some photos of my wireing as its a mess.

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So funny enough the main cabinet outside my house had been open for like 2 days now and cables are crawling on the side walk.

http://i.imgur.com/a8B6RcF.jpg

 

Now here is a closer look on the mess in that cabinet. 

http://i.imgur.com/FcV4DKI.jpg

 

Then from there cables are going underneath the street all the way to houses. Then the cable literay comes out of the ground

http://i.imgur.com/6feVuAq.jpg

 

Then before the house its a pail of un used cable just looped over and over though this cable is not connected anywhere. 

http://i.imgur.com/zDvMNez.jpg

 

and then to that small box on the wall and then coax white cable goes in side my house.

http://i.imgur.com/wNIat1j.jpg

 

Now before it connects to the router have something like this on it

http://i.imgur.com/SXBme46.jpg

 

And finally connected to Super Hub 2

http://i.imgur.com/g74AWJ2.jpg

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Good effort Dillinger! 

You do do an excellent job with the topics and content you create for the community. Always well written and informative. Keeps us all thinking and talking - Thanks, man   :)

 

I shall now remove my lips from your arse.  Please, continue.   :D

 

@ lukasz.  I'm astounded at the state of that cab, man!  Is it left open all the time? You reported it to Open Reach? 

 

That needs to be secured before some yoof comes along and takes out the internet for the whole street.

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Alex49h, ask your cable company if your getting any T3 errors which causes your modem to disconnect from the headend. I'm having the same problem where my bandwidth is hit or miss. T3 errors can be caused by an amplifier, to much noise on the line or your node has too many customers. It's causing COD Ghost to be choppy and hit detection is horrible.

That is how and what I see choppy games besides lower speeds. I just checked my modems Event Log and yes a lot of error messages. I sent them proof. Thank you for your input now I have words to back up what I see.

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So funny enough the main cabinet outside my house had been open for like 2 days now and cables are crawling on the side walk.

http://i.imgur.com/a8B6RcF.jpg

 

Now here is a closer look on the mess in that cabinet. 

http://i.imgur.com/FcV4DKI.jpg

 

Then from there cables are going underneath the street all the way to houses. Then the cable literay comes out of the ground

http://i.imgur.com/6feVuAq.jpg

 

Then before the house its a pail of un used cable just looped over and over though this cable is not connected anywhere. 

http://i.imgur.com/zDvMNez.jpg

 

and then to that small box on the wall and then coax white cable goes in side my house.

http://i.imgur.com/wNIat1j.jpg

 

Now before it connects to the router have something like this on it

http://i.imgur.com/SXBme46.jpg

 

And finally connected to Super Hub 2

http://i.imgur.com/g74AWJ2.jpg

 

Lukasz - You need to call the local guys and get them out there to that box and get it secured.  Inside that box (pedestal) appears to be a shared termination, or punch, board for the phone and what appears to be a short range cable TV style amplifier called a "line extender".  The line extender is a powered device (usually 60-90 volts powered by the incoming cable line), so while it won't kill you, it is a hazard. 

 

On top of that, you have a pre-made lawsuit ready if someone trips on any of that exposed wire, falls, and hits something fleshy on any of the bricks and rocks around.  Honestly, if I saw that while I was on the job, I would have coned it off, taped it off and blocked out time to fix it if I didn't have time that day. 

 

The in line shiny "bullet" looking item is an in-line pad (most likely) and is used to lower the signal electronically to balance the incoming signal to within the optimal input settings of the router.  I have never been a fan of little short cuts like these, but I totally understand their need.  I just always like to group my actives together, that way you aren't looking for some random loss of signal "hidden" somewhere you don't know about.

 

Thanks for these pictures Lukasz, they are a great addition to this thread!  This was a real world example I was hoping to explain.  Lukasz could have had his entire home wired by the God of Internet himself and could still be subject to spotty service because those charged with caring for and maintaining his backbone system seem to have fallen down on the job.

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Nice thread Dillinger.

Got a Question: Is it safe to say that the best modem location is where the telephone company's cables enter the apartment?

 

Kind of a loaded question, but let me see if I can clarify and give you an answer.

 

Assuming that everything coming from the outside is in top notch condition, (i.e. you have all the signal you need, everything is maintained correctly and you don't have any ancient gear or plan on extending from the wall plate with string and bubblegum) then yes.

 

In an apartment setting, you are kind of limited in what you can do with rewiring, so if it's convenient and the incoming signal is within specs, go for it.

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This has been open like that for about 2 3 days i just send the report now

 

Call me an old romantic, but I would be sending the missus out to stand guard while I was gaming if it were my cab - LOL
 
I still can't believe it was left open, and in that state.  Every cabinet I've EVER looked at has been locked down tighter than a Nun's asshole.  It looks as though there's a public warning notice on the inside of the cab door - which is odd in itself.  If you get the chance, could you take a pic of that also? 
 
Cheers lukasz!
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Call me an old romantic, but I would be sending the missus out to stand guard while I was gaming if it were my cab - LOL
 
I still can't believe it was left open, and in that state.  Every cabinet I've EVER looked at has been locked down tighter than a Nun's asshole.  It looks as though there's a public warning notice on the inside of the cab door - which is odd in itself.  If you get the chance, could you take a pic of that also? 
 
Cheers lukasz!

 

Thats a Virgin cab not a BT, Not that any should be left open.

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  It looks as though there's a public warning notice on the inside of the cab door - which is odd in itself.  If you get the chance, could you take a pic of that also? 

 

That is actually a stand reminder sticker.  Beware, Take care, Don't DISCONNECT in error".  When you have apartment boxes, where a lot of runs are all jumbled together, some are tagged with the correct unit number, and some used to be.  When you have a 3 story facility, you may start with a 103, 203 and 303, for respective units, but when one of the leading 1,2,3 numbers come off, and you don't take the time to verify, you unplug 203 when it was 303 who moved out.  That is a DISC in Error, and counts against your efficiency rating, which can effect your merit raise and performance evals. 

 

No faster way to piss off a paying customer than to offer them a half assed service and then randomly disconnect them from it because you were too lazy to take an extra minute and do the job right.

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there was one of those green boxes just like the one in Lukasz's first picture in my town centre on the main street.

 

it had one of the doors hanging off it for months and i'm not even exagerating one bit.

 

another one locally is so rusty that the bottom front edge has rusted away leaving a crumbling jagged gap all the way along it

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there was one of those green boxes just like the one in Lukasz's first picture in my town centre on the main street.

 

it had one of the doors hanging off it for months and i'm not even exagerating one bit.

 

another one locally is so rusty that the bottom front edge has rusted away leaving a crumbling jagged gap all the way along it

 

These are all too common I am afraid, and this is what I am talking about when I say that the wiring in your house is something you can control, but it's not the real problem when you are talking about twitch shooters like Call of Duty and Battlefield

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Call me an old romantic, but I would be sending the missus out to stand guard while I was gaming if it were my cab - LOL

 

I still can't believe it was left open, and in that state.  Every cabinet I've EVER looked at has been locked down tighter than a Nun's asshole.  It looks as though there's a public warning notice on the inside of the cab door - which is odd in itself.  If you get the chance, could you take a pic of that also? 

 

Cheers lukasz!

will back home tommorow afternon if its still open will make a picture.

 

Love that sentence about lady guarding lol that made me lough a lot..

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That is actually a stand reminder sticker.  Beware, Take care, Don't DISCONNECT in error". 

 

Yeah, I guess that makes sense. It looks more like a warning to the general public from the little I can see tho.  We'll know more if lukasz can grab a pic.

 

there was one of those green boxes just like the one in Lukasz's first picture in my town centre on the main street.

 

it had one of the doors hanging off it for months and i'm not even exagerating one bit.

 

another one locally is so rusty that the bottom front edge has rusted away leaving a crumbling jagged gap all the way along it

 

I always knew there was a better class of citizen in 'Nam, Toby Jugs.  If that was Gloucester, the copper would've been robbed in minutes mate  :D

 

will back home tommorow afternon if its still open will make a picture.

 

Love that sentence about lady guarding lol that made me lough a lot..

 

Thanks lukasz   :)

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Kind of a loaded question, but let me see if I can clarify and give you an answer.

 

Assuming that everything coming from the outside is in top notch condition, (i.e. you have all the signal you need, everything is maintained correctly and you don't have any ancient gear or plan on extending from the wall plate with string and bubblegum) then yes.

 

In an apartment setting, you are kind of limited in what you can do with rewiring, so if it's convenient and the incoming signal is within specs, go for it.

 

I'm doomed.

Internet first enters my place inside this box (along with other stuff). How am I supposed to hook a modem up there?   :(

 

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Sgt-Greco,  Can you open the box?  If so, take some pictures of whatever's inside, paying attention to any available connections, and JD will most likely be able to tell you what your options are.    

 

I'm speculating, but I'd imagine you would be able to run tails from the box to locate a modem/router in a more convenient place.

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Piece of cake bro. A couple of phillips head screws and the lid is off. 

But I already know what's inside:

 

- All the alarm IR sensor cables 

- All the phone lines end up in here.

- A single power line (220V 50 Hz)

 

In a few words a mess...

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