Called VM business to get fibre broadband (coaxial) after following 300 metres of VM green ducting, cabinet & pulling chambers going right to the end of our dead end road where we are based.
They initially said no - address not on database, but after telling them the above they sent a surveyor who said YES! No problem at all. They also told me the address is not on one database but is on another
Waited 6 weeks
for god knows what, and was eventually told the cabinet is not serviced so no chance apparently.
My road is a dead end, with a cabinet half way down the road.
There are about 20 small industrial units on my road, and Telewest must have paid a few grand to dig up the entire road end to end (300 metres), lay cabinets, metal pulling chambers (in middle of road) and drops to every unit, but they decided they couldn't be arsed sparing a few more quid and put the equipment in??
I decided to do a bit of detective work and opened a pulling chamber outside my property that also served my drop and I found 5 of those double coax/telephone cables running straight through it going towards the dead end so I followed the duct to my kitchen fitter neighbours yard which is private property and you can see they have dug a channel in the yard going to his warehouse.
I also opened the chamber next to the cabinet and found tons of cables going in to the cabinet - one of which was thick and bright orange? Plus 5 going in the direction of the chamber I mentioned above
I also opened some drop points and they all had green pipes sticking out of them.
I just don't get it, how can my neighbour get it and I can't despite those cables going past my drop ? Does anybody have any idea's?
On a side note, those 5 cables only go to 1 warehouse and I'm not too friendly with them so I don't want to ask. Interestingly, why would a kitchen fitter have 5 drop cables going in to their warehouse anyway... I don't know..
We have 8 people employee's sharing 3MB ADSL and everything is in the cloud and it's rather sloooow! Infinity is not on the books either.
Cheers!