Green boxes??

[oddjobbob]

Was just wondering about the green boxes in every street, do these green cabinets have there own I.P address and Mac address?? and why is there 1 that is much bigger than all the rest on each estate?

[Roy MM]

The large one is the feeder to the smaller cabs, at least that's what a engineer told me.

[Halcyon]

The big one is the Mummy Green box and the little ones are all the little green box children

[jtwn]

To the best of my knowledge, the smallest ones are the distribution amplifiers, I guess they help push data further after being as Roy said, fed from the big green cabinet. Thats a node, and where the Coax is terminated and the data is fed back to the hubsite through fibre.

I think the medium sized ones are for the phone lines but thats just an educated guess.

[Roy MM]

Originally Posted by Halcyon

The big one is the Mummy Green box and the little ones are all the little green box children

So eloquently put Hal

[marky]

Originally Posted by Halcyon

The big one is the Mummy Green box and the little ones are all the little green box children

and sometimes sombody leaves the door open on mummy green box and other children pinch things so baby green box has no food

[Roy MM]

Originally Posted by marky

and sometimes sombody leaves the door open on mummy green box and other children pinch things so baby green box has no food

Or daddy green box sows his wild oats and all the estate has lil NTLs free

[quadplay]

The cabinets themselves do not have IP addresses or MAC addresses. Some of the equipment within the larger cabinets may have communications ability, but often they do not. As others have said, there are different levels of cabinet which house different equipment, and the larger ones feed the smaller ones.

[thax1]

And what do those guys do all day up to their elbows in them?


Seriously, over the past couple of weeks the little green box near our house gets visited 4 times a day. Ntl vans and 3rd party contractors all pay it flying visits.
The last guy (about 10 mins ago) was in an unmarked van, he's been 3 times since I got in this afternoon.

This is only the smallest of the boxes - its got about 10 coax and 10 phone connections made in it. (Someone left the door open last week)

[Hom3r]

In our are the small ones are crinkled lift off covers which go to the houses and we have two type of big green cabinets (different shades of green) one is used by BT (saw a BT man playing with the inside) and another NTLs