NTL Green Box

[asdf]

Originally Posted by greencreeper

On the subject of vandalism of equipment - what's the policy regarding protecting wires with metal conduit? That might be a daft question Around here (Holbeck - LS11) the houses are all terraced and many are direct onto the street. Kids take pleasure in yanking at the cables attached to the fronts/sides of the houses. My broadband cable has lost 3 clips already - the phone and aerial cables have also suffered. I've noticed that on some houses the broadband/TV cables are liable to trip or garrote pedestrains At my old flat the engineers did install protective conduit, but not here - where it's needed most.

Same happened when I used to live in Leicester near the university. Every monday morning all the wires would of been ripped off and the brown boxes ripped open. NTL would then come and fix them until the next week. I did notice that some started having metal applied to them, but no idea whether this was ntl or privately done.

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by asdf

I did notice that some started having metal applied to them, but no idea whether this was ntl or privately done.

Not sure where you'd get the conduit from otherwise I might get some and fix it up. My brown box is in the cellar, which is a small mercy I guess.

[SMHarman]

In Hertford they seem to have decided black or green depending on whether it was against a hedge or a wall / fence. Thas only the small cabs, all the bigger ones are green.

[nidave]

one on of the estates we manage we have a huge probelm ith compains about kids ripping out the ntl/bt wires from the wall.. litte B*st*rds. they are even pulling down sky dishes (saying that they are demolosing some empty properties on the estate I mange - getting payed 0.30p per tile from the roof)

Originally Posted by andrew_wallasey

Round here are NTL boxes are black not green, BT ones are green round here.

In our corner of Hemel Hempstead the boxes are decorated with the names of the pop acts the local chavs are in to this week. Plus the usual waffle about who fancies who, and who's the biggest slapper.

[andrew_wallasey]

LOL I was going to say this. There is like only one NTL CAB round here which isnt covered.