Fibre to the home cable strength.

needmorehelp

Hello,

I am about to get fibre to the home installed, bt duct is actually in front garden beside road as its an open plan area no pavements.

They are to run a cable to house from duct going through the lawn in front garden. not coming thrugh master socket.

Just wondering how deep will they lay it and how strong this cable is? as occasionally when backing into drive we inadvertently go slightly over into garden area where cable is to be laid.

Thanks for any advice.

grumbler

needmorehelp wrote: »

...occasionally when backing into drive we inadvertently go slightly over into garden area where cable is to be laid.

While reading, I expected to see something about digging/excavation in the garden, not just "go slightly over".


I am pretty sure you underestimate the cable and how they lay it.

needmorehelp

Thanks for reply, hope you are right as I would be slightly worried about the weight of part of a car on a fibre optic cable if not laid deep enough.

cajef

Is your existing phone cable through ducting or are they running new ducting, when our FTTP cable was run they blew the fibre cable through the existing phone ducting to the house.

AndyPix

You could drive a car over an optical fibre and it would be fine anyway

Undervalued

needmorehelp wrote: »

Thanks for reply, hope you are right as I would be slightly worried about the weight of part of a car on a fibre optic cable if not laid deep enough.

Not a direct answer but when Virgin (or rather their predecessors) installed their cable TV / broadband service in my town they horrified a lot of people by scratching a very shallow trench in gravel driveways!

They put their state of the art (as it was back then) co-axial cable in that with no ducting whatsoever! Amazingly it seemed to survive being driven over every day.

Don't do too much enthusiastic gardening though!

onomatopoeia99

Undervalued wrote: »

Not a direct answer but when Virgin (or rather their predecessors) installed their cable TV / broadband service in my town they horrified a lot of people by scratching a very shallow trench in gravel driveways!

They put their state of the art (as it was back then) co-axial cable in that with no ducting whatsoever! Amazingly it seemed to survive being driven over every day.

Don't do too much enthusiastic gardening though!

At work ours runs through the office front garden then along the side of the building. The gardeners employed by the freeholder of the building managed to slice clean through it with their hedge trimmer (and not tell us), the cable was just laying on the surface.:eek: