News - BT's giant new faster broadband boxes blocked

[Biscuit]

il be moving down south soon, is my uglyness going to offend them to the point where they block me aswell

[Funkstar]

Can't find a good photo, but there are a couple from the following pages


http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4...net-pilot.html


http://modular-solution.com/2009/03/...roadband-fttc/

[aidanjt]

Can't find a good photo, but there are a couple from the following pages


http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4...net-pilot.html


http://modular-solution.com/2009/03/...roadband-fttc/

What?.. That's it?.. The 'big ugly scarey box blocking poor wheelchair-using and pram-pushing people'? Good grief.

[Blastuk]

that doesn't quite look like 1.8 metres to me..

[matty-hodgson]

Can't find a good photo, but there are a couple from the following pages


http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4...net-pilot.html


http://modular-solution.com/2009/03/...roadband-fttc/

we have one of those just round the corner from here :\
they're basically just a seat for chavs to sit on.

[Biscuit]

Doesnt look much different to the current boxes.

[Singh400]

Looks exactly the same as the current boxes, got one pretty much outside my house. I'll take a fugly box plese.

[malfunction]

Are these the ones BT are using to put the actual routing equipment out in the street cabinets rather than in the exchange? They do look more heavy duty than the normal street cabinets (of which the one at the end of my street is frequenty hanging open which I presume is due to some pikey or other)... I guess they must be as the one at the end of the road is just a mess of cables - nothing else in it if I remember correctly

[Funkstar]

What?.. That's it?.. The 'big ugly scarey box blocking poor wheelchair-using and pram-pushing people'? Good grief.

Well thats just the photos I could find after a quick search, I'm sure there must be a new one near someone here that could take a photo.

This is a normal box:

[aidanjt]

Yeah, I know what the normal 'last mile' BT copper loop box looks like. From what I could make out from the pictures of the FttC box, it's not considerably bigger than that one, 50% bigger at most.

[Funkstar]

To me it looks at least 50% taller, probably twice as thick, and perhaps 25% thicker...

That makes it almost 4x the volume of the standard box.

[TheAnimus]

The jokes is its muswel hill, not knightsbridge, someone needs to tell them that.

[Brewster0101]

(of which the one at the end of my street is frequenty hanging open which I presume is due to some pikey or other)

Dam those pikey folk.... Probably would have stolen it if they could...