The real way to install fibre optics - apparently...

[bradza]

So, a fibre provider is installing infrastructure in our road and started on laying the cable in the ground and connecting the little boxes above the doors of the flats. Is this how it is meant to be done? Prepare yourself...

Chop and dig up the ground without plans knowing where any current cables are or piping is under the ground where you laying fibre, crack up the concrete areas around the area you laying because the guys you using just don't mind drilling where ever and just leave the machine stuck in the ground like Thor looking cool while you go for lunch. Followed by... oh its coming... the best part. Not measuring the fibre optic cable right and coming up short... don't worry, we'll just shove it in a plastic tube with another piece to extend it the extra 2-3 meters that we didn't think of or calculate, tape it up with black tape and all good. Then make the flats look damn ugly with what looks like bad cheap ass plumbing stuck to the walls (while also damaging the walls) to connect up the little black boxes. Oh then leave without cleaning up for the weekend. That's how some roll it appears.........

Okay, being serious. Aren't you meant to use a splicer to connect up the fibres? With what they did above, surely the fibre connection is going to be bad due to it not being connected correctly? Anyway to test this before they disappear to another property? I'm not wanting to switch to fibre one day and find out that their little fix in the ground is a world first fibre dialup.

Hoping to catch the manager on Monday to ask further about this but interested in any that know more on this subject when coming up short of fibre optics cable and... yeah.

 

[The_Librarian]

Yikes!

Who is the SP?

 

[John Tempus]

Which fiber network / contractor did this job ? There is no way they can just extend fiber cable by using ducktape , that just makes no sense. If they really did that, you are out of luck for that connection to work at all.

Any of the big networks who provider contractors who end up doing a crappy job like that would out of pocket sort out the situation until the client is happy. We had a rather shoddy vumatel contractor for our second fiber installation and we had them come back 2 times to redo the grass filling and the pavement until we were happy. Initially they wanted to leave us with a new mountain on the grass next to where they laid the fiber tubing into the home and they wanted to just leave with half our driveway looking like the mountain ranges of Lesotho.

 

[bradza]

Going to pass it to the supervisor to take up but if I see the contractor manager tomorrow I'm going to ask for more information. I did a youtube search to see what the splicer looked like and I certainly didn't see a splicer near the guy and after checking the safety and clean area required for it, didn't see that, so just going to get further details hopefully tomorrow, they still needing to cement and finish off wiring. Will try take pics later. As far as I've been told, its OpenServe and Hauwei doing the laying. I thought you had to pay for the installation into the building (in this instance, not into the flat though, just to the door) but supervisor said its all free? I'm guessing it was the manager of the contractor, he spotted the cable being too short to reach the box and complained at the guys but then just walked off after waving hands and shouting "how you going to fix this now?". Within under an hour it was being taped, put in a plastic tube and buried. Anyone repaired fibre optics on this forum that could give some further details, time wise etc. on repairing/joining a short cable? Can a cable get spliced within under an hour, in case I missed the splicer and I just spotted the taping of it? There weren't any glasses for protection involved or a clean area. This was surrounded by rubble, cement dust and sand.

 

[bradza]

I let the supervisor know. I suspect they still busy as there's still a cable sticking out the ground for the neighbour through our yard but looked like they dug everything back up and did something with the cables, so possibly fixed. Guess we'll find out. Seems there were two teams, one that did a...questionable job and the other that came to fix the first teams mess I think, they also look like they buried the cables deeper compared to the first time around.