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rssfed23 · 23-07-2017, 23:58

I'll check if it's a FPA or normal one when I get home tomorrow! - Out of curiosity what's the difference? Is there any documents or knowledge available as to how one of these fttp installs should look like and components fitted/standard practice? I imagine things like power levels and associated issues *should* be a thing of the past (in theory - Reality often takes a different route I know

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As far as I'm aware the SH3 doesn't get "set" for anything in particular - the whole point of the RFoG tech is that there's no special equipment or modifications in the home just an ONT (I don't think it'sa "true" ONT though but a R-ONU (RFoG optical-networking unit). I think the eventual "true fibre" path involves upgrading the box on the outside of the wall to a true ONT after all the headend stuff is done and some work in the cabs as well. Naturally that'll come in many years time as RFoG looks like a very promising way to deliver DOCISS3.1 with Gigabit(??) speeds in the future) on the outside of the house powered by a plug inside with coax going into the inside portion of the box. Out the other hole comes a normal coax link and off to the splitter in the same fashion as a normal HFC.

I'm not too confident in the quality of the fibre cable. I mentioned it in the other thread but it took them 4 times to blow it through from the street cab to the house. First 3 attempts they said they got a red light on the box on the outside of the wall (no idea what that means - they indicated a complete link down) and the 4th time they had an orange/amber light for about 20 minutes it kept switching between green and orange but then settled on green. They waited 15 minutes or so and it didn't switch back so they then sealed it all off and set up the SH3 (although they had to phone up twice to get me taken out of the walled garden).

The engineers were very late as the first job of the day took 5 hours - it took them 6 pull attempts to get the line in there and they eventually did do it but they put it down to being bad/damaged fibre in the van. They did say they grabbed it from a fellow installer near their home area as they didn't have any in the van the day before when noticed they had 5 fttp installs to do the next day. They only completed job 1 and 2 (mine) that day by which time it was 8pm and they went home. There was a job before job 1 2 streets down but they turned up and went to pull the fibre from the street cab but there was no electronics in it just an empty cab! - They joked about this happening in new areas and makes me wonder if the network isn't fully built out yet and (fingers crossed) limited backhaul links up to the headend are causing my issues.

It's worth pointing out that next door had theirs installed yesterday afternoon as well. They're on vivid 200 and I borrowed some of their internet time and over 4 hours with my Intel NUC attached running the same scripts they were getting bang on 200 (well a shy bit over) during every test while I was floating around 40. So I'm starting to think it's an issue relating to my install.

So really curious to see whats going on here - as well as a chance to learn something about the new RFoG

23-07-2017, 23:58	#8
rssfed23 cf.member Join Date: Jun 2016 Posts: 19	Re: Project lightning/Fttp limitations? I'll check if it's a FPA or normal one when I get home tomorrow! - Out of curiosity what's the difference? Is there any documents or knowledge available as to how one of these fttp installs should look like and components fitted/standard practice? I imagine things like power levels and associated issues should be a thing of the past (in theory - Reality often takes a different route I know ) As far as I'm aware the SH3 doesn't get "set" for anything in particular - the whole point of the RFoG tech is that there's no special equipment or modifications in the home just an ONT (I don't think it'sa "true" ONT though but a R-ONU (RFoG optical-networking unit). I think the eventual "true fibre" path involves upgrading the box on the outside of the wall to a true ONT after all the headend stuff is done and some work in the cabs as well. Naturally that'll come in many years time as RFoG looks like a very promising way to deliver DOCISS3.1 with Gigabit(??) speeds in the future) on the outside of the house powered by a plug inside with coax going into the inside portion of the box. Out the other hole comes a normal coax link and off to the splitter in the same fashion as a normal HFC. I'm not too confident in the quality of the fibre cable. I mentioned it in the other thread but it took them 4 times to blow it through from the street cab to the house. First 3 attempts they said they got a red light on the box on the outside of the wall (no idea what that means - they indicated a complete link down) and the 4th time they had an orange/amber light for about 20 minutes it kept switching between green and orange but then settled on green. They waited 15 minutes or so and it didn't switch back so they then sealed it all off and set up the SH3 (although they had to phone up twice to get me taken out of the walled garden). The engineers were very late as the first job of the day took 5 hours - it took them 6 pull attempts to get the line in there and they eventually did do it but they put it down to being bad/damaged fibre in the van. They did say they grabbed it from a fellow installer near their home area as they didn't have any in the van the day before when noticed they had 5 fttp installs to do the next day. They only completed job 1 and 2 (mine) that day by which time it was 8pm and they went home. There was a job before job 1 2 streets down but they turned up and went to pull the fibre from the street cab but there was no electronics in it just an empty cab! - They joked about this happening in new areas and makes me wonder if the network isn't fully built out yet and (fingers crossed) limited backhaul links up to the headend are causing my issues. It's worth pointing out that next door had theirs installed yesterday afternoon as well. They're on vivid 200 and I borrowed some of their internet time and over 4 hours with my Intel NUC attached running the same scripts they were getting bang on 200 (well a shy bit over) during every test while I was floating around 40. So I'm starting to think it's an issue relating to my install. So really curious to see whats going on here - as well as a chance to learn something about the new RFoG Last edited by rssfed23; 24-07-2017 at 00:03.