pipe in my area is full

shibby · 13-12-2004, 01:43

seems that my neighbor wanted ntl and when they came to lay down the cable for her the pipe in the ground was full to the brim.
my dad went with them to and saw the pipe at the green box and you could see there was no hope in hell of getting any more cableing in.

i wonder what they did in the end, what could they of done?

13-12-2004, 02:13

Called Dynorod?!

Graham M · 13-12-2004, 10:29

Wrong sort of pipe

SLM · 13-12-2004, 11:10

The trouble with the ducting is if you live in say Salford which is a mostly 2 up 2 down terriced houses you find 99% of homes have at some point been with ntl, so the ducting will be very full, 1 thing ntl could do is an audit on all the homes in the area that have services now and which do not, then may be remove the cables that are no longer being used, a couple of things with doing this is that if you are only going to have telco it may not be worth ntl doing this as it takes a long time to "get" back the money they have spent on getting you connected, if you however are going to get full tv pacage, telco and 1.5 BB it may well be worth ntl doing the work.

ian@huth · 13-12-2004, 11:24

There are a few areas that have their ducting based on the misconception that the number of houses passed is the maximum number of properties that can be serviced. This falls down, particularly in university areas, where there are older Victorian properties that have been split into several flats.

andrew_wallasey · 14-12-2004, 08:34

Or when people have multiple feeds to the house or RG11.

I should think NTL would put extra ducting in, if the cab was not too far away from that ducting run. Put the problem then is everytime someone ordered they would need to have a new tee put in.

14-12-2004, 10:54

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Originally Posted by shibby

i wonder what they did in the end, what could they of done?

bit of oil or fairy liquid on the cable

poolking · 14-12-2004, 16:54

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Originally Posted by gary_580

bit of oil or fairy liquid on the cable

Or vaseline?

ian@huth · 14-12-2004, 17:13

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Originally Posted by poolking

Or vaseline?

KY Gel is said to make it slip in easier.

altis · 14-12-2004, 17:42

Or even the propper stuff:

poolking · 14-12-2004, 17:44

Pulling lubricant, hmm sounds dodgy.

Neil · 14-12-2004, 17:46

*Ahem*

andrew_wallasey · 17-12-2004, 23:17

We had oil put in the ducting so the cable would just go through easy. Whenvever they have to go a pull you end up with all over your wall round here.

ian@huth · 17-12-2004, 23:26

I can't understand doing all that digging to put cable in and not putting ducting in that more than satisfies projected requirements.

It would have been a good idea to take the opportunity of digging roads up once and putting in ducting with several channels that could be used by the various services.

Batfink · 18-12-2004, 00:22

Unfortunately in most areas the network was designed for analogue, i.e RG6 drops pulled in, now people have multiple devices the drop cables are more of RG7 or 11, plus the lazycontractors are not removing the old drops on a re-pull, hence the problem.