Chris Woods' personal site. Vive la difference!
Following on from the Virgin Media street cab article, I came across a PCP last week with the doors left unlocked (and wide open to the elements!) I phoned it in to Openreach and it's already fixed, but as I had my camera...
This is a 'vintage' BT street cabinet, so no FTTC VDSL equipment. Still hoping to grab some close-up snaps of one of those, though given the cost of equipment in them I doubt I'd find an open one which wasn't vandalised. Who knows...
Some photos for your nerdy enjoyment:
"You can call it a germ. You can call it a flu. You can call it a virus. You can call it many different names. I'm not sure anybody even knows what it is."
Words spoken on Earth by Donald Trump on March 27, 2020.
Project Pitlane – Seven UK-based Formula 1 teams making significant progress towards UK Government’s call for assistance with the manufacture of medical devices to help in the treatment of COVID-19 patients.
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.uk-based-f1-teams-unite-around-project-pitlane-to-assist-with-ventilator.7G8gQu9v8j6aSgqk3P52fp.html
If this crisis is doing one thing, it’s vindicating what we knew all along: that the low-paid aren’t low skilled, that key workers aren't the rich who clean us out, but the ones who keep us clean and safe. When this crisis subsides, let’s remember who kept this country running.
Head of NHS confirms Birmingham NEC will become a dedicated coronavirus hospital https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/head-nhs-confirms-birmingham-nec-17996539
Just picked up an Asus Maximus XI Hero motherboard and considering it's a £250 piece of kit, the preamps and 5V to the microphone input are horribly poor quality. So much for all this HD Crystal Sound bollocks. If you have a ModMic, continue to use USB or a proper sound card.
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Interesting to see 237A blocks in there, our local cab has a mixture of the old screw terminals, and the later 'thread the bundles of cable through the holes and use 8A connectors' type. I'm more than willing to send the photos if you're interested
Definitely Martin, I could stick them up on the article for comparison 🙂
That's not a particularly old PCP looks relatively new, and it does have fiber connected to it, all of the connections on the right hand side with the green and blue tops (representing Exchange and distrubtion side) are the ports that go over to the fiber DSLAM and back to the PCP to go back to the copper D Side. The yellow and blue are the jumpers that connect them from Copper E side to fiber D Side through the DSLAM out on fiber E side back to copper D Side. ☺ 🙂