The globe guy came and basically told me I needed a 6M 2 inch pipe to carry the fiber cable from the box to our house here. I checked at the shop and they have a 950p vs 3000p version. Anyone familiar with pipes, I tend to automatically assume the cheapo version will do, given it wont be carrying water or anything - It's not going in the ground - we just plan to tie the pipe to a large concrete post. Thanks
They are doing FTTP Fibre to the premises? Wow! No idea what you would need, when our synchronous gigabit fibre was installed at the office immediately behind my desk in came in via a conduit that had been installed back when the building was built in 2008, that conduit was over 4 or 5 inches and the cable they pulled through it was heavily armoured.
No idea why would Globe told you that, We have fiber cable with PLDT for over 2 years and we don't have any pipe, the cable goes straight to our modem. Pipes are cheap to buy just had new water pipes from the house to an outside tap 30 meters away. I don't know the names of the pipes but this ones black rubber lol.
Fibre is not just fibre, FTTP is where the cable is an optical cable all the way to your router, that is quite rare and incredibly good, most Fibre is FTTC where the final segment from the street cabinet to your router is copper, because it is short there is little loss but the maximum speed will be much attenuated with FTTC because of the copper, whereas FTTP could one day get up to speeds of tens of Gigabits per second or more.
"Shortish" story is - our current cable runs over land that someone has bought and built on... He's closed the old "track", so if our wire breaks we're in the poo poo. Globe wouldn't upgrade me when I asked - told me Fiber not available in our area... next day I see Globe van in the road so I talk to the Engineer... Tells me best to go for a "new" installation in wife's name - the new shortest accessible route to our house is from another road via a public "track" - we're too far from the road so we need the pole to prop up the cable (fiber or copper?) in between. The "new" install is 50% off for 6 months... in order to get it done I offered to pay for the pole plus "grease" for installer. Two days after our "new" application... Globe text me to advise Fiber upgrade is now available in our area ... So... not quite sure who's going to get there first the upgrade or new installation - think I'll just get the P950 pipe and try and change it if the installer doesn't like it... if I don't use it for the fiber connection I can use it to add another cctv camera to keep an eye on things by our gate.
I never knew that, thanks for the explanation. From the cabinet to my home is about 1,500 meters give or take 100 meters. The internet speeds I'm getting average about 60 Mbps but when I'm streaming live TV from the UK, most times I get a lot of buffering and sometimes no connection usually between 7 pm and 1 am., even when the speeds read 60 Mbps.
